Parent support group

4^th Tuesday of each month,

7:00-9:30 PM

Have you ever felt marooned on an island feeling like no one understands you and/or your
ADHD, ODD, RAD, FASD, depressed, PTSD, or behavior problem child?

Is your child adopted or a foster child? 

Are they grieving a loss? 

How about your struggling learner or child with perceptual problems?

Do you ‘know’ things aren’t ‘just right’ with your child but don’t know what?

WE DO!

Our goal is to educate and teach parents, teachers and others working with these children as to the complexity raising them.  Traditional parenting skills fail, ‘talk’ therapy fail and the schools are failing them, but why?  Come share your experiences with others walking IN YOUR SHOES!

Knowledgeable speakers as well as other successful resources will be featured. Parenting tips and learning tips will be shared. Discussion topics will cover the psychology of adoption, attachment disorder, digestion and elimination problems, sleep issues, respite, successful consequences, social/behavior and feelings of anger, grief/loss and betrayal (YOURS and your child’s), and how to praise a child who thinks he/she is unworthy. 

Come enjoy yummy refreshments and chance to win a door prize! 

• Carli Robinson and her husband of over 30 years parent 10 children, 3 birth children and seven adopted; Carli holds a degree in Psychology and extensive training in matters of the adopted family and child’s heart such as grief and loss, trauma, abandonment, opposition defiance, FASDs and attachment disorder.  Carli is also a certified teacher and trained Neurodevelopment Specialist and co-direct of Can Learn Therapeutic Center & School.

• Toni Hager and her husband of 30 years parent two special needs daughters.  Toni has degrees in Applied and Developmental Psychology and Neurodevelopment.  Toni’s expertise in matters of the adopted family and child’s heart led to opening Can Learn four years ago as a Neurodevelopment Therapeutic Center that has also turned into a private school for ‘fall through the crack kids’ K-8^th grade. 

Both Carli and Toni are ‘Life long learners’ and have developed a ‘cutting edge’ therapeutic program and school.