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Why should you become member of a parent association?
Be it at the beginning of the adoption process or when the child as finally arrived at home, we would never recommend too much that you become member of a parents association or support group. Why? Essentially because all parents associations are based on the same principles: sharing and exchange between members.
Before adoption, it is the best way to get informations on the adoption process. Of course, the adoption agencies and the Secretary of International Adoption (SAI) can inform you about your services. Precisely, you will find from them only their informations. On the contrary, only the parents associations can give you advices on how to choose an agency, its reputation, the quality of its services. Only support groups can inform you on the possibility of private adoption, without the intermediary of an agency.
While waiting for the child, you will need support. The members of an association that have gone through it can help you. You can reach them on the phone, meet them at different events. Also, after adoption, you will be able to assist to workshops, lectures and other events to share your experiences and find solutions with families having the same difficulties than yours.
And lastly, only the associations defends the interests of adoptive parents. They have fought to obtain the current law, which has greatly facilitate the adoption process. They continue to monitor eventual changes to the law. They make representations on different subjects, for example to obtain equality of treatment in regard to parental leave or employment insurance. And foremost, they follow the application of the code of ethics that the certified agencies have endorsed: the associations can act as mediators between parents and agencies in case of dispute, they participate in the follow-up committee of the code of ethics. To survive, the parent support groups needs your support: please, become member of at least one association.
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Contacts of the parents associations
| Adoption Estrie
Hélène Kouri,
president
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Adoptive families
of Québec Roberta Fuller |
| Association
de parents pour l'adoption québécoise (APAQ) Kathleen Neault, president Email: |
Association des familles Québec-Asie Association
des Familles Québec-Asie (AFQA) Phone : (514) 990-2446 |
| Fédération des parents adoptants du Québec (FPAQ) Claire-Marie Gagnon, president
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Familles au coeur québécois Joanne Ladouceur , president FACQ
Lucie Marchand, contact |
| Familles adoptantes d'Abitibi Témiscamingue F.A.A.T
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Société culturelle de familles adoptives d'enfants de Chine Email: info@enfantsdechine.qc.ca |
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