Foundational Family Services

Navigating life with autism comes with plenty of discovery and growth

Foundational Family Services offers sessions to empower families and caregivers with autistic children and youth so they can gain the tools and knowledge they need. These sessions help with goals like increasing your child’s rate of learning, increasing caregiver confidence and reducing stress, or connecting you with families who share similar experiences.

Foundational Family Services are available free of charge to all families registered in the Ontario Autism Program (OAP).

Types of services

We offer a wide range of evidence-based supports in various formats to help caregivers learn how to best support their child or youth with autism.

They include:

• Family and peer mentoring
• Caregiver workshops and follow-up coaching sessions
• Brief targeted consultations
• Transition supports
• Family resource and clinic days

How to register

Online registration is quick and easy, with no intakes required. Simply browse the session calendar to find the service that suits you.

Families can choose to access these services at any point based on their needs, at no cost if they are registered in OAP. There are no limits to the number of times families can register for Foundational Family Services.

If you have any questions about our Foundational Family Services or would like support navigating community resources, please call 416-925-5141 ext. 2590, or contact FoundationalFamilyServices@surreyplace.ca.

Other available sessions

• ABA Essentials for Caregivers
• Caregiver Connect: A Parent Support Group
• Community Resources and Funding
• Dealing with Challenging Behaviour: A 2-Part Series
• Family Resource Clinic Days
• Getting Started with Toilet Training
• Healthy Sleep Habits
• Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Increasing Daily Living Skills
• No Fair! How to Teach Emotional Regulation
• Orientation to the Ontario Autism Program (OAP)
• Parent Advocacy
• Supporting Mental Health in Teens
• Supporting Social Skills
• Teaching Early Communication Skills
• Triple P Group Stepping Stones