Information Brochures
As we learn from our collective experience, we create and curate resources so that other parents, just like us, can find their way a little easier or sooner.
We hope you find some useful wisdom here.
A one page document describing who we are and how we help parents find their way to the help and services they need for their children.
Often, when seeking help for your child, you can face the challenge of dealing with wait lists.
Even though this can be a frustrating time, there are many helpful things you can do while you wait for services.
School can be very challenging for students facing mental health challenges. Focusing on successes and strengths and teasing out the stressors will be key to your child’s success. In doing so parents and schools will help children build resilience, and ultimately, to flourish. Students do best when schools and parents work together. This guide will help you understand the process, how to navigate the education system, and provide some essential skills for parents. Our goal will be to create a plan that both reduces challenges and maximizes opportunities for your child to use their strengths.
Our greatest wish is to see our children flourish. As parents, we experience tremendous stress when our kids are facing mental health challenges. We worry about their well-being, their safety, and their future. We struggle to secure services and supports for them and often face lengthy wait lists. We do our best to educate ourselves about the issues they are facing. Often, friends and family don’t understand the challenges we face, making it difficult for them to support us. While we focus on our child who is facing challenges, other family members may feel neglected resulting in added family strain and increasing our own stress levels. It is our role as parents to be our child’s advocate. Research indicates that children facing mental health challenges who have strong family support have better outcomes. As parents, we need support as well so that we can be strong and resilient for our kids.
School Attendance Concerns
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Understanding School Attendance Concerns While most kids miss school from time to time, school attendance concerns can show up in different ways, such as being late, leaving school early, or missing school frequently or chronically.
If you’re reading this, you’re likely the parent or caregiver of a child who struggles with regular school attendance. You may have received phone calls and emails from your child’s school and lots of advice on increasing their attendance. There is no ‘one size fits all’ solution for supporting your child. This guide aims to help you rethink your child’s challenges and understand your options.
It is worth $1,000,000 to connect with people who really understand because they have been there too. It helped to have a safe space to discuss intense topics, not being judged or assessed or tested, just being heard with compassion, just being accompanied while we go through it.