One Kids Podcast

Executive Director Gisèle Hébert and Occupational Therapist Katie Ward from One Kids Place join the conversation to explain how the organization supports children, youth, and families across Northern Ontario.

They break down the wide range of services available, including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech-language pathology, recreation therapy, social work, autism services, and specialized clinics. The conversation also explores how One Kids Place brings different professionals together under one roof to create more coordinated, family-centred care.

Gisele and Katie also discuss the challenges families can face when accessing services, from waitlists and staffing shortages to navigating autism funding, and how programs like the SmartStart Hub are helping connect families with support sooner. They also highlight the importance of community partnerships, donated equipment, and meeting each child and family where they are.

0:00 What Is One Kids Place?
7:56 Services Under One Roof
17:50 How Families Access Support
28:04 Screen Time, Green Time & Regulation
46:55 The Impact on Families

On this episode, we'll be discussing Therapeutic Recreation, which is one of the six primary services One Kids Place offers. 


Recreation Therapist Jacob Farrer discusses how the service helps children and how he got involved with One Kids Place after volunteering in high school.

Later in the episode Jim Stewart talks about his involvement with the program and the work One Kids Place does with NADY (Nipissing Association for Disabled Youth).

Welcome to One Kids Podcast, a show about how the One Kids Place Children's Treatment Centre is helping kids and families across Northern Ontario.

On this episode, we'll be discussing Social Work, which is one of the six primary services One Kids Place offers.

Social Worker Sidney Spoor and Service Facilitator Amy McShane from One Kids Place discuss how Social Work ties into the other services that are offered.

On this episode, we'll be discussing Physiotherapy, which is one of the six primary services One Kids Place offers.

Physiotherapist Laura Koski-Harja discusses how Physiotherapy is an important service within One Kids Place and how much it changes from working with adults to working with children and infants.

Later on in the episode Jody and Dave Dugas, who started the NoahStrong foundation and whose son Noah was in the process of initiating his treatment plan, discusses how the services offered helped them through a very difficult time in their life.

On this episode, we'll be discussing Occupational Therapy, which is one of the six primary services One Kids Place offers .

Occupational Therapist Kate Stadnyk discusses how she helps children on a day-to-day basis with self care, leisure and productivity.


Later in the episode Jude Krause, who utilized the services One Kids Place offers after suffering a stroke at age 11, opens up about his progression and how it helped him get to where he is now as an adult.

Learn more at www.onekidsplace.ca

On this episode, we'll be discussing Autism Services, which is one of the six primary services One Kids Place offers. 

Behavior Therapist Melissa Baker from One Kids Place debunks some common myths about Autism and how she helps the children she works with to develop.

Alicia Turner also joins the show to talk about her son Cayden who is currently a One Kids Place client.

On this episode, we'll be discussing Speech-Language Pathology, which is one of the six primary services One Kids Place offers.

Andrea Martin and Alicia Garcia, who are both Speech-Language Pathologists at One Kids Place, discusses how they help children with not just speaking but also feeding and swallowing.