How to Stop or Prevent Financial Abuse: A Guide for Support Workers & Caregivers of Persons With Cognitive Disabilities
This guide will help you spot the signs that someone you care for is being financially abused.It will also teach you what you can do to help someone avoid financial abuse, or what they can do to stop being financially abused.
Decoding Aggression, Complex Behaviours and Brain-Based Disabilities: Practical Strategies for Addressing Aggression Within the Family System
Families and caregivers facing aggression from children and adolescents often feel isolated, misunderstood, and unsure of where to turn. This groundbreaking clinical manual provides a comprehensive, neuroscience-informed approach to understanding and addressing Aggression Toward Family/Caregivers in Childhood and Adolescence (AFCCA).
The trauma of attachment – (in french)
A presentation and discussion about attachment trauma, secondary trauma, as well as the child’s behaviors and their impacts on the adoptive parents.
Savvy Siblings: Strengthening the Financial Security of Your Sibling with a Disability
This free, self-paced online course empowers Canadian adults to build financial security for—and with—their siblings with disabilities.
Siblings Canada Learning Hub
Explore our curated collection of free resources that support siblings of people with disabilities.
Resentment & Parenting with Robyn Gobbel
Resentment is a familiar feeling on this unexpected parenting journey. Despite doing the hard, ongoing work of relearning how to understand behavior, parent, and build a family, some days are still filled with frustration. You’re not a bad person. But resentment just feels bad!
What it takes to support a loved one with FASD
This photovoice project describes the experiences and the challenges faced by those supporting loved ones with FASD. This photovoice project highlights several themes that are consistent with the results of caregiver research and provide a glimpse into the experience of those supporting loved ones with FASD.
Transition Tools and Resources for Families and Caregivers of Youth with Developmental Disabilities
A toolkit designed to prepare youth with developmental disabilities and their caregivers to transition from pediatric to adult healthcare (31 pages)
Tips for Parents and Caregivers
38 tips for caregivers on a variety of topics (40 pages)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) – (in french)
FASD research; FASD behaviours and social skills; support for parents. Caution: uses older diagnostic terms (75 pages)
Succession Planning: What parents & caregivers of a loved one with FASD need to know
Information regarding succession planning.
Strengthening the Parent-Child Attachment Relationship in Children and Parents Affected by FASD – Red Flags and Practical Strategies
Webcast about how parents can strengthen their relationships with their children living with FASD (2 hours)
