ASSITIVE TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATION PARENT INFORMATION SESSION
Topic: Assistive Technology and Note Taking Strategies for Success
Guest Speaker: Cathi Graveline – Assistive Technology Specialist
Thank you to Cathi Graveline for speaking to us about Assistive Technology options for Junior High and Senior High students prior to our General Meeting on May 17. This presentation covered the types of note-taking solutions that are available including pens and apps that record audio notes, convert handwritten text to digital text, and a notebook that can save handwritten notes to the cloud. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PRESENTATION
PA General Meeting Minutes
Our most recent GPA General Meeting was May 17, 2022. Our next meeting will be our Annual General Meeting in September 2022. If you would like to review the minutes of our last GM, you can find them here: CLICK HERE TO VIEW MAY 17, 2022 MEETING MINUTES
UPCOMING PARENT EDUCATION SESSIONS
The Community Education Service (CES) is offering the following sessions for parents and families. Sessions are offered at no cost but registration is required. **CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: Click on the Poster/PDF icon below the correct session to register**
May 30: The Building Blocks of Resilience: Strategies to Strengthen Resilience in Children and Adolescents
Traumatic life events, such as abuse, death, natural disasters, and the current COVID-19 health pandemic, produce a wide range of stressors which affect the health and well-being of children and adolescents. We know that children and adolescents have the capacity to learn and develop important resilience skills that can help them thrive even in the face of adversity. This presentation will discuss research-based strategies that can help increase and strengthen resilience in children and adolescents. I will discuss individual and social-ecological factors that can boost coping, recovery, and overall well-being among children and adolescents, and thus improve their ability to manage challenges they are currently facing or may face in the future.
June 9: Juno House presents: Healthy Brains = Healthy Children
Before High School graduation, one third of adolescent girls will experience depression, anxiety disorders, self harm or an eating disorder.
At Juno House www.junohouse.ca we believe in the extraordinary healing power of parents and caregivers. We believe that you can learn all of the skills that you need to become your teen’s emotional coach. We believe that talking does not grow neurons; experience grows neurons. We will share steps and strategies from the Juno House Therapeutic Model that will give you effective emotional coaching tools for your children as they develop through adolescence and into young adulthood. You will learn about :
• Neuroscience and the developing brain,
• Brain integration of the left and right brain,
• How anxiety develops,
• The background of emotions and how to understand them in your child,
• The five emotional coaching steps,
• Strategies to help guide your adolescent through the challenges they will face in their academic, peer, and emotional environments.