Events › Connect and Learn With FamilySmart - Building Connections 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:

April 14 -  Parenting When Our Kids Can’t Go to School  Sometimes mental health challenges keep our kids from going to school. Parenting when our kids won’t (or can’t) go to school is hard.

Learn from this conversation with John Solano, Registered Clinical Counsellor, and Kathy Buhler, a parent with lived experience. Discover how focusing on our relationship with our child can help, and where we can find support.

April 28 - Emotion Regulation: Helping Our Kids Cope With Their Big Emotions  When kids frequently have big emotions, parenting can be overwhelming and tiring. As parents, we play an important role in helping our kids manage their big emotions. Discover some strategies and skills to make it easier for your kids and you.

Join us to learn about emotion regulation and dysregulation from Nicole Allen, Registered Clinical Counsellor.

May 12 - ADHD - The Real Deal  ADHD doesn’t just affect the person living with ADHD. It also affects those around them. As parents of kids living with ADHD, we can benefit from learning what ADHD is and how to support our kids. Dr. Duncan dispels some myths and explains how and why the ADHD brain works the way it does.

Join us to learn from Dr. Don Duncan, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.

May 26 - Building Connections 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.

June 9 -  A Conversation for Families About Digital Wellbeing and Mental Health  How much time should our kids spend with technology? How can we set boundaries that don't create conflict? Learn some practical solutions to our everyday concerns and challenges around our kids' use of screens and their mental health.

Join us to learn from Dr. Kristy Goodwin, Digital Wellbeing and Productivity Researcher, Speaker, Author and Consultant.