Parenting With Hope© for Parents of Children Experiencing Disability and Behaviors
(12 sessions) Mondays 6-7:30pm
January 11 – March 29, 2021
RSVP: tinyurl.com/PWHparenting

As parents, it can be scary when your child is first diagnosed or showing signs of autism, neurodiversity or extreme behaviors. Instead of being scared, we should be jumping on the bandwagon to help our children as early as possible with or without a diagnosis and with or without a therapy team. Parental involvement is critical. We’re seeing a lot in the literature about parent-mediated interventions and parents being empowered to support their child’s development. That doesn’t mean they become their child’s primary therapist. We certainly don’t think that’s the case. But I do think that there’s a lot of research showing that parents who are able to learn a lot of the strategies that are going to help their child be successful, are more empowered, have higher self-efficacy, and have less stress. So the more parental involvement there is, the better the outcome. Then we see better outcomes for kids because they have parents who are able to support their communication development all day long instead of just the 10 or 15 hours of therapy time that they’re getting. Professionals and parents need to partner together. Parents with effective advocacy achieve this team dynamic!

Join us to learn more about parenting a child experiencing neurodiversity and behaviors. There will be special guest speakers from the disabilities community such as Early Intervention of Jackson and Josephine counties, School behavioral specialists, representatives of FACT Oregon and Bridging Communities, and more!

Eligible for 18 Parenting Education hours (1.5 x 12)