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Resources
Links & Additional Resources
Crisis & Support
- Kids Help Phone — (1-800) 668-6868
- Mental Health Crisis Line Ottawa — (613) 722-6914
- Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region — (613) 238-3311
- AA — (613) 327-6000
- Al-Anon — (613) 860-3431
- Sexual Assault Support Centre of Ottawa — (613) 234-2266
- Gay Line Ottawa — (613) 238-1717
- Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre — (613) 562-2333
- Canadian Mental Health Association
- St. Mary’s Home — a support and outreach centre for pregnant youth
- Youth Services Bureau — (613) 260-2360
On-line Reading, Information & Connections
- Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency — an overview by the author, Allison Davis Maxon
- A Gazillion Voices — a platform for adoptees and their allies
- Transracial Eyes — a platform for transracial and international adoptees
- Adoptees On — a podcast about the adoptive experience
- Adoption Healing — resources for adoption triad members
- Adopt4Life — Ontario association for support and advocacy for adoptive parents and kin and customary caregivers
- Who Am I Really? – adoption podcast and blog
- Ask an Adoptee — a Facebook Group
Search & Reunion
- Parent Finders – non-profit support for reuniting family members
- Adoption Council of Ontario
Books
- The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier — a classic, much loved by adoptees and written by an adoptive mother and therapist
- Journey of the Adopted Self by Betty Jean Lifton — another classic which explores the adoption experience and quest for wholeness
- Lost Daughters, edited stories
- Beneath the Mask Teens and Young Adults Share Their Stories — a workbook of stories, exercises and thought provoking activities
- Brain-based Parenting by Daniel A. Hughes — an exploration of the brain mechanisms behind healthy parenting
- Beneath the Mask, Understanding Adopted Teens — for parents and therapists