Events › Connect and Learn With FamilySmart - Building Connection with Our Kids When It Feels Impossible

Please join Richmond’s Family Peer Support Workers from the Integrated Child and Youth Team as they host a series of online events for parents & caregivers who are parenting a child or youth with a mental health and/or substance use challenge. Watch a video and share experiences and strategies that help in the hard moments and focus on strengthening our understanding and connection with our kids.

Sessions are conducted in English, however follow up support can be offered in Mandarin, Cantonese or Punjabi

Videos will be run with subtitles in Simplified Chinese. 视频将配有简体中文字幕

Please register via the FamilySmart website, www.familysmart.ca/events

For more information please contact sandy.chen@familysmart.ca

Topics covered include:

January 14 - Understanding, Supporting and Connecting withTeens with Depression

When our teens are struggling with depression, we can feel lost about how to best support them. How do we know when they are experiencing a mental health challenge and when should we intervene?

Joining us to learn from Karen Peters, Registered Clinical Counsellor, about how depression shows up in teens and ways of journeying with them through it.

February 4 -  Building Connection with Our Kids When It Feels Impossible

Feeling disconnected from your kids? We know what it’s like because we’ve been there. Please join us for an honest conversation with parents and caregivers who are struggling to connect with their kids.

Join FamilySmart Parent Peer Support Workers and we will share strategies to build, and rebuild, connections even when it is complex. This conversation is facilitated by parents with lived experience.

March 4 - Parenting When Anxiety Shows Up As Anger

Anxiety in our kids can show up as anger, and that can make parenting extra challenging. Learn some strategies that can help us before, during, and after these hard moments.

Learn from Karen Peters, Registered Clinical Counsellor and Victoria Keddis, a parent with lived experience