Program Highlights
In addition to community events CCWS offers ongoing programs that centre connection, and capacity building for child welfare survivors.
This page highlights the recurring spaces we hold like peer support groups, skill-building workshops, and community outreach efforts. These offerings are free, survivor-led, and rooted in our commitment to showing up consistently for our people.
Check out the breakdown below to learn more about each program and how to get involved.
For Child Welfare Survivors
CWS Connects is supported in partnership with:
We’re grateful for the collaborative support that helps make this space possible.
Seed funding provided by Laidlaw Foundation:
CWS Connects: Survivor Group
🗓 When: Last Wednesday of every month
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Location: In-Person (Location updated monthly)
CWS Connects is a monthly peer support group for child welfare survivors. It's a space to process, share, and connect through themed discussions, creative activities, and mutual care practices.
Each session is grounded in a different theme, like grief, relationships, family dynamics, joy, or cultural disconnection and is designed to support personal reflection, emotional expression, and collective healing. The space is co-facilitated by survivors and guided by trauma-informed, anti-oppressive values.
Sessions are open to anyone with lived experience in the child welfare system. No professional background or formal diagnosis is required—just your story, your boundaries, and your presence.
Food, transit support, and materials are provided when in person.
RSVP is required.
