ROK - Reconnecting Our Kin

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• Professional staff offer comprehensive training and supports to volunteers.

• Provides trained volunteers to assist those separated from family.

• Community Outreach: Interactive workshop presentations for professionals, agencies and educational institutes.

• ROK is a project of the Sage Centre.

ROK is created by a reunited adoptee & Psychotherapist and a reunited mother & Social Service Worker. Their personal and professional histories led to recognizing needs for understanding and education regarding family separation and adoption experiences. 

ROK is structured to assist clients in response to new Ontario legislation opening adoption records [Bill 183].

Clients of ROK benefit from experienced and personally trained supportive volunteers.

Individual needs and process are honoured.

Counselling is offered in two phases:

Phase One:

• Clients arrange a personal interview to determine their goals.
• Clients are matched with a dual volunteer counselling team.
• Mutually convenient counselling session dates / times are arranged.
• Sessions are generally between 60 - 90 minutes, once a week for eight consecutive weeks.

Phase Two:

Optional follow - up peer support group (approx. 12 participants)

• Six consecutive weekly group meetings.
• Groups are facilitated by ROK's senior staff.

For Self Referral email us at: reconnecting@zoomshare.com

Community Outreach:

ROK facilitates family separation and adoption related workshops responding to community needs.

Interactive and educational presentations can be topic and group specific.

Examples:

• Current and past legislation.
• Search & reunion.
• Adoption related issues.
• Constructed case studies.
• Clinical practice.
• Adoption misconceptions.

Volunteer Training

ROK seeks dedicated, insightful volunteers to provide supports to clients with a family separation experience.

• New training sessions are offered every two months.
• Training consists of three evenings and two Saturdays for a total of 24 hours of training over a three week period.
• Minimum age of volunteer applicants, 21 years old.
• Volunteers must successfully complete the training program.
• All recruitment efforts are to be conducted without consideration of a participants race, ethnicity, sex, disability or sexual orientation.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie... deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth... persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy.

Contact Information:

• Self Referral                                                                                   
• Volunteer Opportunities                                                            
• Workshop Request                                                                      

Email us: reconnecting@zoomshare.com

Toronto Based Service

Kindly send pledges of support to:

Rachel Rocco c/o Sage Foundation ROK Project 220 Cambie St. Ste.680, Vancouver, BC V6B 2M9