Parent & Caregiver Education

Count-to-Ten Anger Management – Zoom

For parents of children ages 0–18 years |Parenting can be an emotional roller coaster. At times it is full of joy and love and other times it can be scary, frustrating, and overwhelming.  Sometimes you may also feel anger as a parent which is normal. But how you express and manage your anger is an important piece. If you are interested in learning about anger, how it affects your body and mind, healthy ways to express anger, identifying your anger triggers, and exploring a variety of anger management strategies, including communication skills and self-care, this program is for you. This 5-week program is designed to support parents in understanding how anger is affecting their lives and to provide tools to help manage anger and allow them to develop a personal Anger Management Plan.

Handle With Care – Zoom Option

For parents of children ages 0–6 years | Did you know that supporting your child’s social-emotional development when they are young is one of the best investments you can make in their future? Skills such as the ability to manage emotions, build positive self-esteem, and develop healthy relationships do not come naturally and need to be taught.  In this interactive program, you will learn easy and simple ways to promote positive mental health and well-being through basic strategies and everyday interactions.

Kids Have Stress Too! – Zoom

For parents of children ages 2–6 years | All children will experience stress and anxiety at times throughout their lives.  The Kids Have Stress Too program developed by the Psychology Foundation of Canada is designed to give caregivers the tools they need to understand children’s stress and promote the development of effective stress management skills and resiliency from a young age.  Participants will leave the program with practical child-friendly stress management strategies than can be introduced immediately to positively impact children’s social and emotional development.

Trauma and Attachment – Zoom

This course will give the participants a very good understanding of the impact “Trauma” has on children of all ages, and if left untreated, how trauma can impact their future as adults. Specifically, the course will take a look at the topic of “Adverse childhood experiences” (Also known as ACEs), and discuss how these experiences impact brain development and attachment styles. The course will also look at “Attachment” specifically and how crucial it is for the healthy development of our children. Throughout these discussions, the course will address how this knowledge impacts how we parent and how we should rethink various discipline techniques.

Triple P Discussion Group: Developing Good Bedtime Routines

For parents of children ages 0–12 years | The Positive Parenting Program (Triple P): Developing Good Bedtime Routines Discussion Group aims to foster strong parent-child relationships by empowering parents with tips, tools and strategies that encourage appropriate behaviour in their children. This workshop explores different problems parents commonly face at bedtime and some of the reasons why they happen. The skills children need to get into a good bedtime routine are then discussed and parents are introduced to positive parenting strategies to help them prevent problems and develop a plan to deal with any problems that do happen at bedtime or during the night.

Triple P Discussion Group: Managing Fighting and Aggression

For parents of children ages 0–12 years | The Positive Parenting Program (Triple P): Managing Fighting and Aggression Discussion Group aims to foster strong parent-child relationships by empowering parents with tips, tools and strategies that encourage appropriate behaviour in their children. This workshop will encourage parents to share their experiences of dealing with aggressive and destructive behaviour and discuss some of the reasons children fight. It covers the skills that children need to be able to cooperate and get along with others. It then introduces positive parenting strategies to help prevent problems by teaching children to play nicely and resolve problems, deal with sibling conflict, and also to manage those times when children lose their temper and fight or refuse to share, or become aggressive or destructive.

Triple P Seminar: The Power of Positive Parenting – Zoom

For parents of children ages 0–12 years | The Power of Positive Parenting: The Triple P Seminar ( Positive Parenting Program) is for every parent who ever wondered: “Why does my child do that?” This seminar helps you understand the reasons kids do what they do, so you can guide their behaviour – and see more of the behaviour you like, and less of the behaviour you don’t like. This Workshop toes over the 5 core principles of Positive Parenting:

– Having a safe and interesting environment
– Having a positive learning environment
– Using assertive discipline
– Having realistic expectations
– Taking care of yourself as a parent