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Join our International Overdose Awareness Day Campaign

If you’ve lost a parent to overdose, your words could help someone else feel less alone. We’d love to share your story in our zine.


This International Overdose Awareness Day, help us make this a reality. Contribute a poem, art, or words of hope to our zine or order a kit for a youth in your life.

'We are building a world where every youth can access the resources and supports they have a right to'
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Upcoming Groups & Trainings for young people growing up with parental addiction, and the caregivers who support them

    Youth Advocacy Council Meeting
    Youth Advocacy Council Meeting
    Youth Advocacy Council Meeting
    Mon, Aug 18
    virtual
    Our youth advocacy council meet twice per month. Want to join us? Fill out this form https://forms.office.com/r/pRPU5m8Rie or email CassandraB@starlings.ca.
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    Monthly Skill Building Session: Registration Required
    Monthly Skill Building Session: Registration Required
    Few Spots Left!
    Multiple Dates
    Monthly Skill Building Session: Registration Required
    Wed, Aug 20
    Zoom
    Stigma is structural. So is healing. Join one or all of Starlings’ Skill Building Sessions to learn how to support youth growing up with the stress and stigma of a parent’s substance use.
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    For Family Caregivers Supporting Youth
    For Family Caregivers Supporting Youth
    Multiple Dates
    For Family Caregivers Supporting Youth
    Thu, Aug 21
    Zoom
    A space for adult caregivers (parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles ) who have a young person in their life who is affected by the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use (addiction) to learn about our resources and supports, while asking questions in a small peer community.
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Joining Starlings and understanding that the reason I was being misunderstood or brushed off time after time was not me or my family, but the stigma external to us, made a huge difference in how I perceived myself, my parents, and the social interactions around parental substance use. Furthermore, connecting with others with similar experiences provided me with a compassionate community. 

Starlings Peer, Board Member

Support Our Hearts Work.

When you donate to Starlings, or purchase a product or training from us, it enables us to continue to offer free resources and supports to young people and their families. 

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