Parent Information Session Wrap-Up & Resources Shared: “How Can the Law Help Protect my Child with Special Needs?”

We would like to thank our participants for attending our Legal Information Session on “How can the Law Help Protect my Child with Special Needs?”. It was a great session and an opportunity for everyone to ask questions and to learn more about the legal rights of children when they reach the age of 14 and 18, the role of parents who act on their behalf, and what parents can do to
ensure their child is protected if they are no longer the primary caregiver. The presenters also spoke about out the legal process to name parents as their child’s curator, tutor or adviser, and also game information on the importance of having and updating a will.

We would like to thank Vanessa Purdie and Arnaud Lavallée, law students with Pro Bono Students Canada and studying at the University of Ottawa, for such an informative, dynamic and engaging presentation- and for answering all of our questions!

The evening began with a True and False set of questions where attendees had the opportunity to guess the correct answers. From there our law students gave their presentation, shared various printed and online resources (including their pamphlet with defined words), while attendees were free to ask questions with a final question period.

The following are some of the resources shared during the presentation: