NB ADOPTION SUPPORT NETWORK

A pilot project currently being offered in Kent, Albert and Westmorland counties (Moncton, NB and surrounding communities)

 

 

Connect with our peer to peer support network for families who have adopted, are considering adoption or who are waiting to adopt. 

 

506-383-3693  fcorbinboucher@gmail.com

 

Check back here often or join our  page to find out more about the NB Adoption Support Network events and activities. 

 

About the NB Adoption Support Network...

 

An avenue for adoptive and pre-adoptive parents to exchange information and share experiences. 

The network is open to people who have adopted, are in the process of adopting or just beginning to think about adopting.  

Connect with experienced adoptive parents:

  • for support
  • for information
  • to find about community programs
  • to access resources such as videos and books 

 

ADOPTION – INTERACTION at the Family Resource Center

A drop-in play group for adoptive parents and their children, at any stage of the adoption process.

The Greater Moncton Family Resource Center  Codiac Plaza, 451 Paul Street – 2nd Floor, Suite # 210 Dieppe, NB

Meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of the month - 9:30 - 11: 00 am:

February 8, 2013

March 15, 2013 

April 12, 2013 

May 10, 2013 

June 14, 2013

 

SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS


Monthly meetings for those in all stages of the adoption process.
Meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday of the month from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. 

February 27, March 27, April 24, May 22, 2013  June 26, 2013

 

For more information about workshops and the support group or to be part of our network contact:


Françoise Corbin-Boucher, Coordinator
506-383-3693
fcorbinboucher@gmail.com


 

We welcome contact from people outside the pilot region

and throughout New Brunswick. We will help you link with

resources close to your community. Our hope is that

following the pilot the Network will expand

throughout New Brunswick.

506 832-0676 or nbadopt@nbnet.nb.ca

 

 

 

 

 

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Coming Home: Helping Your Child Adjust

Before we have "the call’’, adoptive parents take the appropriate training, read relevant articles and books, and look into whatever information they can to know more about parenting and adoption. But what happens after placement? What can we expect, as parents, during the first few months of our child being home? Is my child’s behaviour ‘’normal’’? Am I doing the right thing as a parent?

This workshop will focus on the issues pertaining to a child’s first months in their adoptive family.

 

The workshop will be led by Françoise Corbin-Boucher, Coordinator of the NB Adoption Support Network, accompanied by a panel of parents who have adopted children at different ages:

infant,

older/school-aged

teenagers.
 

Tuesday, May 21, 2013
NBCC – Dieppe Auditorium
6:30 – 8:30 pm
 

For more information or to register:
Françoise Corbin-Boucher 383-3693 fcorbinboucher@gmail.com

 

Did you know?

 

At present there are several hundred children

in the permanent care of the Minister of Social Development

with this number increasing by as many as

100 children every year. Many of the children have

special needs, like a brother and sister who would

like to stay together. Some have different cultural backgrounds,

some are emotionally and physically fragile,

and some were exposed to drugs or alcohol in-utero.

These children range in age from 2 to teenage years.

Many are aged 12 and older.

 

 

Some stats...

Nearly half or more of children in the permenant care of the Province of NB are aged 12 and older.

For many New Brunswick teens turning 19 really means “out on your own.”

The Average Age for a Young Adult raised in his own family to leave their home of origin and set up a “real” home...26.

The Average age that young adults raised in their own families consider themselves settled into a “real job” with some promise of security, benefits, and full time hours...28.

A recent Canadian study states that within 2 to 4 years of leaving foster care:

 

Check out this video to see Zoe's story of being adopted as a teen...

 

Adoption can and does

make the difference!