Community Resources

Below are a list of local Community Resources that parents can access that will educate, and prepare parents raising children with any form of Attachment Disorders 

The Ottawa Centre for Attachment and Trauma Therapy is a great resources for parents to access in the Ottawa Community. This agency helps to educate parents through parenting classes, provide parents with additional resources, and prepare them for the future with their child. The Ottawa Centre for Attachment and Trauma Therapy can be accessed by phone at 613-435-2355 or you can visit there Ottawa office at 160 Terence Matthews, Unit 1 of the ground floor. Check out the link below for more information. 

"Ottawa Centre for Attachment & Trauma Therapy exists to offer HOPE to families by equipping them for healthy and loving relationships." (OCATT, 2021)

The Ottawa Centre for Resilience is another great resource that parents can access by phone at 613-714-0662 or in person at their office located at 2197 Riverside Dr., across from Billings Bridge on the corner of Riverside Dr. and Bank St. This agency is designed to help parents understand what attachment is, how it effects the parent and child relationship, and how with the right tools and resources, parents can help their child living with an attachment disorder. 

"Some children adapt by being controlling and demanding, others by being indiscriminately affectionate and submissive, while still others will be distant and withdrawn and avoid human connections. Each of these is a survival response. Children do what they feel they have to get their needs met." (OCFR, 2016)

Parenting Ottawa is an organization that focuses on helping parents to build a loving and trusting relationship between child and parents. Parenting in Ottawa is affiliated with Ottawa Public Health and the Children Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), and provides parents with access to Registered Nurse Practitioners and Counsellors that will work with both the child and parent to ensure that they can develop a healthy relationship between parents and their children. Parenting in Ottawa can be accessed in person at their local Ottawa office at 100 Constellation Drive or by phone at 613-580-6744

"For babies and toddlers, having good mental health helps them feel safe, secure, and cared for. It lets them build their self-esteem. It helps them form good relationship for life as well as learn how to cope with stressful events and solve problems. Secure attachment is the key to your baby's mental health" (ParentinginOttawa, 2021)