Family Services
Supports families in navigating challenges and building stronger foundations through parenting education, crisis intervention, and access to community resources.
Family Services
Personalized Support For Families
CAFCAN helps families navigate challenges and build stronger foundations for their future by providing parenting education, family counselling and intervention, along with access to community resources.
Through a compassionate and holistic approach, CAFCAN ensures that each family receives personalized support tailored to their unique needs. The parenting education programs offer valuable insights and practical tools, empowering parents to foster healthy, nurturing environments for their children.
Crisis intervention services are designed to offer immediate assistance and relief, helping families stabilize during turbulent times. Additionally, CAFCAN connects families with essential community resources, thereby enhancing their overall well-being and resilience.
By fostering a sense of community and belonging, CAFCAN plays a pivotal role in nurturing the potential of each family member, ultimately contributing to a more vibrant and supportive society.
Crossing the River Together (CRT)
CAFCAN’s innovative partnership with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, CAST, provides support services to families who no longer have need for child protection services, therefore, CAST refers these families to CAFCAN with consent from each participant. CAFCAN connects the participants to culturally appropriate mental health services such as counselling or other community services.
These services include but are not limited to affordable and or emergency housing, food support and legal services. Families are supported with tools and skills which reduce the risk of future involvement with the CAST.
Kuponya
Kuponya is a Swahili word which means healing. It is a trauma-informed collaborative group program designed for Black women by Jean Tweed, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto and CAFCAN. The objective of the group is to provide psycho-educational support to parents who are involved with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto.
The program focuses on building skills, education while addressing issues of trauma; secondly and most importantly to help parents, mother’s specifically understand the impact of trauma on their children/parenting.
The program focuses on building skills, education while addressing issues of trauma; secondly and most importantly to help parents, mother’s specifically understand the impact of trauma on their children/parenting.
Some participants who have completed this group and participated in counselling have demonstrated improvements resulting in some of the children who were apprehended successfully returned to their care.
Parenting Program
This 10 week group program is primarily for participants who are mandated by the courts or child welfare. Participants learn about effective parenting skills; dealing appropriately with anger, their emotions, developing effective communication skills and coping strategies. This program also offers individual and family counselling, family case conferences and advocacy support.
Supporting Family Connections
This service is offered through a partnership with Catholic Children’s Aid Society. It is designed to provide short-term cultural/language specific intensive counselling services to families and children in their home, provide quick access to service with no waitlist, provide regular updates to CCAS workers and recommend and/or make referrals to community services where deemed appropriate.
