Theresa Fraser

Theresa Fraser


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Theresa Fraser has worked in Children’s Mental Health in Canada since 1983. She has supported children in her role as a Child and Youth Worker, Therapeutic Foster Parent, Foster parent resource worker and now Therapist. She is also a part time Professor at Mohawk College in a Child and Youth Worker Program. Theresa’s first book is entitled Billy had to move and she hopes to publish other bibliotherapy books that will help children in the future.

Theresa and her husband have fostered children over the last twenty years. They now have six children now ranging in age from 20 – 7 years of age. Theresa read the Billy story with her sons to check out if they thought kids would understand and could relate to Billy’s story.

Billy Had To Move

Theresa Ann Fraser, CYW, B.A.
Loving Healing Press (2009)
ISBN 9781932690873
Reviewed by Ben Weldon (age 11) for Reader Views (3/09)
Reviewed by Madeline McElroy (age 8) for Reader Views (4/09)

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Synopsis: Child Protection Services have been involved with Billy and his mother for some time now. He has been happily settled in a kinship placement with his grandmother and enjoys his pet cat, interacting with neighbors and even taking piano lessons. As the story unfolds, Billy's grandmother has unexpectedly passed away and so the story of "Billy Had To Move" begins.

Unfortunately, Billy's mother cannot be located. Mr. Murphy, Billy's social
worker, places him in the foster home of Amy, Tim, and their baby "Colly." Billy
experiences great loss resulting not only from his grandmother's death, but also the loss of the life he knew. Billy's inner journey therefore has also begun and with the help of Ms. Woods, a Play Therapist, there is hope.