by 5by5 Admin | Jul 26, 2020 | News
The profound losses that created feelings or fears of rejection, which led to the emotions of shame and guilt, must be grieved. Adoption and permanency losses are too often left unnamed, unacknowledged, and ungrieved. The losses may be difficult to acknowledge and...
by 5by5 Admin | Jul 26, 2020 | News
Rejection leads to feelings of shame and/or guilt. Shame and guilt impact an individual’s self-esteem and self-worth and may create anxiety. Shame is maladaptive, while guilt is generally an adaptive emotion. Shame relates to self, guilt to others. Shame is the...
by 5by5 Admin | Jul 26, 2020 | News
Constellation members’ core losses are most often experienced as a form of social rejection. Rejection is a perceived loss of social acceptance, group inclusion or a sense of belonging. Rejection can be real, imagined, or implied. People get their most basic needs met...
by 5by5 Admin | Jul 26, 2020 | News
Loss begins the journey. It is crisis and/or trauma that create the circumstances that lead to the necessity of adoption and permanency. The crises of an unplanned pregnancy, rape, incest, poverty, addiction, divorce, mental illness, war or a country’s crisis that...
by 5by5 Admin | Jul 26, 2020 | News
From: North American Council on Adoptable Children www.nacac.org Adoption, foster and kinship care are important resources for addressing the needs of children in crisis. The majority of adoptions today originate from foster care and kinship caregiving, which...
by 5by5 Admin | Jul 26, 2020 | News
We decided to do something a little different this year. We started the year off with a team-building exercise before youth trained for the Youth Speak Out (YSO) training in the beginning of October. We reached out to Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming...
