{"id":2203,"date":"2022-07-14T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:22","slug":"julie-despaties-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2022\/julie-despaties-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Despaties, Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Julie Despaties, Student\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Julie_Despaties800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Julie_Despaties800-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Despaties\" class=\"wp-image-2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Julie_Despaties800-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Julie_Despaties800-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Julie_Despaties800-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Julie_Despaties800-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Julie_Despaties800-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Julie_Despaties800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing by those who need to be heard, and amplifying their voices, has always been important to Julie. She\u2019s an advocate at heart, and her commitment to supporting permanency for children and youth in families grew from her own adoption journey. After adopting a sibling group of three older children, Julie soon realized that adoptive, kin, and customary care families in Ontario would benefit from more resources, advocacy and community connections. In forming <em>Adopt4Life \u2013 Ontario\u2019s Adoptive Parents\u2019 Association<\/em>, in 2014, Julie created a unified voice and invaluable peer network for adoptive parents and permanent caregivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s been a passionate advocate in the nonprofit sector for more than 25 years. A true changemaker, Julie has helped to shape legislation designed to strengthen the child welfare system, better protecting some of Ontario\u2019s most vulnerable young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having completed her B.A. in Communications at the University of Ottawa in the early 2000\u2019s, Julie always knew that she would go back to do a masters. Her pursuit to continuously meet the needs of an ever-growing community has led her to the MPNL program. She\u2019s thrilled to embark on this journey and can\u2019t believe that eventually, all four of her kids will be obtaining a university education while she completes this degree!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julie Despaties, grad student, talks about Carleton&#039;s MPNL program in 2022\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZWopYeT1zJw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing by those who need to be heard, and amplifying their voices, has always been important to Julie. She\u2019s an advocate at heart, and her commitment to supporting permanency for children and youth in families grew from her own adoption journey. After adopting a sibling group of three older children, Julie soon realized that adoptive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[45,168,47,46,353,352,356,358,361,311,48,49,51,50,52,360,350,53,54,209,55,56,190,57,191,58,351,59,60,62,61,63,64,65,66,355,67,349,68,359,222,69,70,71,74,73,75,76,77,72,354,78,79,80,82,357,83,84,17,81,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,18,93,95,94,19,97,96,98,99,324,100,101,278],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students-2022","tag-45","tag-168","tag-academia","tag-academic","tag-adopt4life","tag-adoption","tag-adoptive-parents","tag-advocate","tag-b-a","tag-ba","tag-canada","tag-carleton","tag-charitable","tag-charities","tag-charity","tag-child-welfare-system","tag-children","tag-civic","tag-civil-society","tag-communications","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-diploma","tag-donation","tag-dpnl","tag-endowment","tag-families","tag-federal","tag-foundation","tag-fund-raising","tag-fundraising","tag-giving","tag-global","tag-government","tag-graduate","tag-in-2014","tag-international","tag-julie-despatie","tag-leadership","tag-legislation","tag-master-of-philanthropy-and-nonprofit-leadership","tag-masters","tag-mpnl","tag-ngo","tag-non-governmental","tag-non-profit","tag-nonprofit","tag-nonprofits","tag-not-for-profit","tag-npo","tag-ontarios-adoptive-parents-association","tag-organization","tag-organizations","tag-pandemic","tag-panl","tag-permanent-caregivers","tag-perspectives","tag-philanthropic","tag-philanthropy","tag-pnl","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-program","tag-public","tag-regulation","tag-report","tag-research","tag-resources","tag-school-of-public-policy-and-administration","tag-sector","tag-social-impact","tag-society","tag-sppa","tag-studies","tag-study","tag-univ","tag-university","tag-university-of-ottawa","tag-voluntary","tag-world","tag-youth"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}