Grief and Loss Webinar with Veronica Harris
October 16, Monday at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Foster parents are no strangers to the feeling of grief and loss. Children and youth often experience grief and loss when entering—and throughout the duration of their time involved with—the foster care system. Foster parents also experience cycles of grief and loss when the child/youth they have cared for returns home or moves on to a permanent home.
The Zoom information will be sent by October 13, Friday.
About the Speaker: Veronica Harris
As a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Veronica values the opportunity to work alongside and collaborate with her clients to promote their growth and wellbeing. She works from a place that is grounded in compassion, acceptance and empathy to connect people with their natural abilities and resilience to face everything that life brings forth.
She works with individuals who are experiencing grief and loss, depression and anxiety, parenting and family challenges, and the impacts of trauma. I draw from my varied experience as a community-based counsellor and group facilitator for grief, loss, separation and divorce, as well as professional studies in Emotionally Focused Couples and Family therapy, attachment-based research, mindfulness training, trauma-informed practices, and perinatal psychology.
Register HERE.
Investment and Retirement Planning Webinar with Kelsey Geertsma and Anisha Nihalani
October 20, Friday at 10:00 AM via Webex
BC Foster Parents Association will be hosting a webinar for foster caregivers on investment and retirement planning on October 20, Friday, at 10:00 AM.
The webinar will be hosted by two financial planning experts from the Royal Bank of Canada: Kelsey Geertsma and Anisha Nihalani. The webinar platform that will be used is Webex and we encourage you to download it before the webinar. We will send the Webex information by October 18 to all those who register.
Topics to be discussed:
- Why investing is important
- All types of registered and non-registered accounts including their features and benefits
- Investment options
The focus will be on investment planning include RRSPs, TFSAs, and non-registered accounts, and how they can potentially grow their savings. They will also touch upon pensions and what attendees can expect when they retire, and why they should start saving early.
Please note that the presenters may or may not be able to answer all questions, for example if the question is pertaining to social assistance payments and government pensions. They can only provide basic information.
From time to time, RBC does run webinars on the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Pension (government pensions) which is hosted by a representative from CRA. If they are hosting one in the near future, foster parents will be invited and given the link.
Register HERE.