Parenting Supports

Provide a support group for parents and caregivers of children with learning disabilities to connect, share experiences, and learn from one another. Guided by a build-it-together approach, topics are shaped by families' interests and may include guest speakers, discussions, or group activities. Meetings are held monthly in Charlottetown and Summerside.

• Supervised parenting time so a child can spend time with their parent in a safe environment
• Supervised drop-offs and pick-ups to reduce risks of conflict when children move from one household to another
  

• Positive parenting
• Managing and reducing conflict
• Parents' experience of separation
• Children's' experience of separation
• What Children Need
• Parenting Plans
• How to Develop a Business-like Relationship with the Other Parent
• Legal Information

Program coordinators screenparticipants for the program and ensure that co-parents are not in the samegroup.

Provides a navigation layer across the systems that kinship families may need to use. Includes:

• Guided pathways
• Practical tools
• Human navigation assistance
• Peer connection
• Referrals

Provides a weekly five session infant massage class that is facilitated by a certified ECE and IAIM infant massage instructor.

• Needs assessment
• Setting up language assessments
• Supporting parents with the school enrollment process
• Arranging interpreter services for parents and children when needed
• Helping parents register children for kindergarten
• Information sessions about the Public School System (policies, discipline, books, food, weather delays/closures, buses)

Provides home visits for parents of young children who need support.

• Building trust and attachment
• Promoting and enhancing self-esteem
• Expressing emotions
• Relationships with others

Provides a support group for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Meetings are held in Cornwall and Summerside.