Peer Connector

Interwoven Peer Connector - 6 month fixed-term contract

Location: Remote (Work virtually anywhere in Ontario)

Hours: Part-time 20 to 25 hours per week

Contract Type: - 6 months fixed term contract

Reports to: Service Delivery and Family Support Programs Manager

Who We Are

Interwoven Connections is an Ontario-based not-for-profit organization that supports families and relationships formed through adoption, kinship, and customary care. Our work is rooted in lived experience, advocacy, and community. We believe that all families have a right to advocacy, support and guidance.  Rooted in lived experience and advocacy, we also emphasize accessible supports for racialized, Indigenous, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities and caregivers.

Purpose of role

As a Peer Connector, you will collaborate with families, service providers, Children's Aid Societies, and First Nations, Inuit, and Métis child and family well-being agencies to provide meaningful support and guidance to adoptive, kin, and customary care parents. Your role is to empower families on their lifelong journey, ensuring they have the resources, connections, and encouragement needed to grow and belong.

We strongly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience in adoption, foster care, kinship care, customary care, or as a former youth in care. Trusted relationships within marginalized communities, particularly Black, Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+, or disability communities affected by child welfare or complex health needs, are also considered significant assets.

Aligned with our mission and Canadian human rights principles supporting equity, preference will be given to candidates who bring both direct lived experience and deep community connections.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Post-secondary education in Social Work, Psychology, Education or the equivalent combination of education and/or peer and advocacy support experience.
• Experience sourcing, navigating, and advocating for support services and trauma informed therapies to meet children's needs throughout their ages and stages.
• Demonstrated understanding of anti-racism, including anti-Black and anti-indigenous racism, equity and the issues impacting these communities.
• Experience and/or knowledge related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), developmental trauma, Aggression toward Family/Caregivers in Childhood and Adolescence (AFCCA), and/or attachment disorders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including service providers, organizational leaders, and families.
• Great communication skills in English, both written and spoken. French is a plus

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Provide support to adoptive, kinship and customary care families during all stages of the permanency process.
• Advocate alongside parents/caregivers with schools, service providers, and local CAS, while empowering families with the tools to self-advocate.
• Develop and maintain a collaborative relationship with child welfare professionals from local Children's Aid Societies and Indigenous Family Well-being agencies.
• Help families locate culturally appropriate services, such as therapists, medical professionals, tutors, and respite providers, for emotional and/or physical support.
• Plan and coordinate a variety of education, outreach and public awareness efforts, including identifying potential guest speakers for events, presenting on Interwoven Connections to local agencies and organizations.
• Organize or collaborate in holding social or fundraising events for/with community parents and caregivers.
• Facilitate monthly parent support group meetings and provide support to existing local support groups.
• Promote and develop community partnerships and networks with adoption and kinship workers, public and private adoption agencies, and family well-being agencies, adoption practitioners and licensees, mental health service providers, public health, child development agencies and medical professionals.

Excited to Apply? Here's How

To be considered for this position, please submit a cover letter and your current resume. We encourage applicants to highlight their strengths and experiences in supporting diverse communities and applying anti-racist/anti-oppressive practices in their cover letter.

Submit your application online at

Our values:

We hold ourselves to a high standard in performing our mission. Our values reflect our identity and aspirations and guide our beliefs, principles, behaviours, and decisions.

Interwoven Connections' values define who we are, what we stand for and how we hold ourselves and others accountable. These are our values.

Connection: We foster and support meaningful and authentic relationships.

Collaboration: We build connections with individuals and communities to learn and grow together.

Community: Our shared experiences unite us while our unique perspective strengthens us.

Integrity: We act with unwavering commitment to one another.

Empowerment: We amplify the unique voices of our community through our shared belief in each other

Interwoven Connections is an equal opportunity employer.  Candidates from equity seeking groups are strongly encouraged to apply.  We prioritize hires from the communities we serve, balanced with a critical need for a diversity of marginalized experiences.

We are committed to a selection process and work environment that is inclusive and barrier free.  Accommodation will be provided at all stages of the hiring process if requested.

We thank all applicants for applying, however, only qualified candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: Up to $26.44 per hour

Expected hours: 20 – 35 per week

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Application question(s):

• What is your connection to adoption, fostering, kinship customary care, or family caregiving?

We welcome applicants with lived experience. This may include your own journey, experiences within your family, or close community connections. Sharing is optional, and responses will be treated with respect and confidentiality.

• Are you currently living in Ontario?

Work Location: Remote