Adoptive & Permanency Services
These services are available to all families across Canada, whether your family was built through private adoption, international adoption, or government adoption.
Looking for support? We’ve got you.
At Abide Adoption & Family Services, we believe that support doesn’t end once a child joins your family.
Our Adoptive Family Supports are designed to help you build strong, connected relationships and navigate the unique joys and challenges of adoptive parenting.
We’re expanding our Adoptive Family Supports in 2026 with programs and resources designed to help families feel equipped and connected. To start, we’re opening Early Bird Registration for our first Circle of Security Parenting™ (COSP) classes. We’ll be certified facilitators as of Dec 15, 2025, and we can’t wait to share our favourite parenting and connection course with you.
Circle of Security Parenting™ – Early Bird Registration
We’re offering 50% off COSP classes for all adopting families, including:
- Waiting families
- Placed families
- Families in the application process
- Families from any agency, including government adoption and permanent guardianship
Everyone is welcome. If you care for a child and want to strengthen connection, this course is for you. COSP is an attachment-based program that helps caregivers understand children’s emotional needs and build secure, lasting relationships. It provides simple, practical tools to support connection, reduce conflict, and strengthen emotional regulation.
Meet Your Facilitators
Lindsey Dudgeon, COSP Facilitator
Lindsey has long admired COSP from a clinical perspective. With her background supporting families and children, she has seen firsthand how powerful attachment-informed parenting can be. She is excited to help parents feel empowered, confident, and equipped to connect with their children on a deeper, more meaningful level.
Raelyn Callaway, COSP Facilitator
Raelyn first encountered Circle of Security Parenting™ in 2020, when she and her husband were welcoming their second adoptive placement—two siblings, ages 4 and 5, who had experienced significant trauma. The course profoundly changed their parenting, their understanding of behaviours, and the emotional safety they were able to create at home.
Raelyn often says that COSP transformed not only their relationship with their children, but their confidence as parents. Her passion now is to share this life-changing framework with other adoptive families so they, too, can experience deeper connection and healing.
More about Circle of Security
Your Support is Just a Message Away
You deserve honest, compassionate support—without pressure.
We’re here to listen, provide clear information, and walk with you as you explore your options. Your story matters, and your voice leads the way.
Reach out when you’re ready.
Call or text us any time at (587) 596-5380.
About Open Adoption...
Open adoption is a modern approach that allows birth and adoptive families to build meaningful, ongoing relationships. It recognizes the lifelong connection between you and your child—and honors the unique role you’ll always have in their life.
With open adoption, you remain actively involved in the process. You can choose the adoptive family, meet them in person, share identifying information, and continue communication after placement. It’s a path centered on openness, trust, and mutual respect—designed to support you and your child’s well-being.
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