2025 Permanency Conference
WHERE HEALING TAKES ROOT
Nurturing families through every season
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📅 November 15-16, 2025
📍 Wingate By Wyndham, Dieppe
🎟️ Tickets
Caregivers: $100
Professionals: $150
Youth Formerly in Care : Free
Thank you, McInnis Cooper, Fredericton, for your financial support covering hotel stays for families attending the conference.
DAY 2 : SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2025
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Welcome snack and conversation
A warm welcome space with tea, coffee, and snacks to ease into the day.
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Opening circle
A collective welcome with breathing, intention-setting, and opening remarks to start the day centered.
9:15 am - 10:15 am
Workshop Session 1
Calm in Chaos (FULL)
Sensory strategies at home
Learn how to use sensory tools and environments to support regulation for caregivers & children.
Facilitated in English and French
by Patricia Estabrooks (Adoptive Parent)
Creating your circle of support
An interactive session to explore and strengthen your caregiver support system.
Facilitated in English
by Karolyn Martin(Adoptive & Foster Parent)
Valider ses émotions comme parent/tuteur
Découvrez des outils simples pour reconnaître, relâcher et retrouver l’équilibre émotionnel tout en prenant soin des autres.
Facilitated in French
by Danielle Larry (Kinship Caregiver)
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Break
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Workshop Session 2
Supporting Family Connections
Discover ways to support children by nurturing safe, respectful connections with their biological families, while balancing the unique role of adoptive, foster, and kinship caregivers.
Facilitated in English
by Cindy Doucet (Foster & Adoptive Parent)
Authentic Connection with Children (FULL)
Hands-on activities to deepen trust, attachment, and emotional connection.
Facilitated in English
by Patti Darling (Clinical Counsellor & NBAF Board Member)
Art therapy for caregivers
Experience what a child/youth experiences when attending art therapy.
Facilitated in English & French
by Alisha D'Souza(Art Therapist & Youth Advocate)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Lunch & connection
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Workshop Session 3
Advocating with confidence
Explore strategies for effective communication and advocacy within professional systems.
Facilitated in English
by Alicia Munn (Adoptive Parent)
Validating Emotions as Caregivers (FULL)
Learn simple tools to recognize, release, and restore balance in your own emotions while caring for others.
Facilitated in English
by Tanya Walsh (Adoptive Parent)
Soutenir les liens familiaux
Découvrez des façons de soutenir les enfants en favorisant des liens sécuritaires et respectueux avec leur famille biologique, tout en équilibrant le rôle particulier des parents adoptifs, familles d’accueil et proches parents (kinship).
Facilitated in French
by Sylvie Caron ( Foster Parent)
1:35 pm - 2:30 pm
1:35 pm - 2:30 pm
Caregiver panel
Hear inspiring, real-life caregiver stories and end the day with gratitude and connection.
2:30 pm
Closing
We acknowledge that we carry out our work on the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq, and Peskotomuhkati peoples. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which these nations first signed with the British Crown in 1726. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources, but recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik titles and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
We, the staff and members of the board, pay respect to the elders, past and present, and descendants of this land. We honor the knowledge keepers and seek their guidance as we strive to develop closer relationships with the Indigenous people in New Brunswick. As an organization focused on vulnerable children in the care system, we express these words with both humility and hope.
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