Meet Beginnings Family Services
Embracing Connections and
Bringing Families Together
As you look towards your future and explore the next steps, know that we are here
to listen. Whatever your circumstances, you are important. It is our hope to create
an environment where dignity, respect, and a sense of belonging are present for
everyone. We look forward to connecting with you.
Pregnancy Support
Beginnings provides a safe, inclusive, and compassionate space where individuals and families of all backgrounds are welcomed with respect. Our counselling and support services are here to help you navigate life’s emotional challenges with understanding, empathy, and care.
Adoption
Beginnings has been supporting Canadian families since 1985. We are a private adoption agency licensed by the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services to provide adoption services throughout Ontario.
Embryo Donor/Recipient Program
Our embryo donor and recipient program offers individuals and couples who have completed their IVF journey the opportunity to donate remaining embryos to individuals and couples hoping to build their families.
Learn about our services from Beginnings Executive Director
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the spirit of connections and with great respect, Beginnings recognizes that our work takes place on traditional territories and ancestral lands of the Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit peoples. We also wish to acknowledge that our Hamilton location is situated upon the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississauga peoples.
We are thankful to be able to work and live in these territories. We also recognize that Land Acknowledgements are not enough and that words must be followed up by actions. Beginnings commits to furthering our understanding of how colonial systems continue to actively harm Indigenous peoples today. We acknowledge the Indigenous culture of knowledge sharing that leverages collective experiences and allows people to learn from one another. We, as social workers, and social service providers, recognize our contributing role in history and will continue to work to bring about change, in the spirit of mutual respect, truth and reconciliation.