The Parent Child Connection trains and encourages parents and relative caregivers who are trying to help foster and adopted children establish healthy attachments within the family. Childcare, reserved by calling 650-917-1210, is provided at the monthly meetings.
The Parent Child Connection has monthly meetings in four bayarea locations.
Los Altos – 3rd Thursday of every month at 6:30pm at Union Presbyterian Church
Morgan Hill -1st Tuesday of the month at at 6:30pm at Morgan Hill Bible Church
San Mateo – 3rd Monday of every month at 6:30pm at First Presbyterian Church of San Mateo
Roseville – 2nd Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm at Valley Springs Presbyterian Church
Mission
To provide peer support and educational and therapeutic resources for families who have children with attachment challenges, so that families can be preserved and children can heal. More Info On Attachment
History
The Parent Child Connection started in 1999 under the direction of Dr. Donald Williams, a Bay Area psychologist interested in helping children learn to have healthy relationships, especially children who have experienced foster care or adoption. In the recent years, Dr. Williams and Linda Ikeda, RN, MFT, who is affiliated with Hope Counseling Center, have shared the teaching time at the monthly support group meetings. Since 1999, more than 250 families have participated in the group.
Goals
Parents, before and after adoption, are to receive training, counsel, understanding and friendship from the Parent Child Connection. Children are to benefit from parent training so that they can become “respectful, responsible and fun to be around.” And most importantly, foster care moves and failed adoptions are to be stopped.
Other Support Services
Members of the Parent Child Connection may qualify to participate in Camp Connection, a week-long camp in Felton, CA, sponsored by Help One Child. Designed to give parents techniques for addressing behaviors typified by foster and adoptive children, the camp can accommodate up to 16 families.
A lending library offers books and other resources to help parents of foster and adopted children.
A workshop led by Dr. Donald Williams at the beginning of each year, is designed to refresh parenting skills and renew commitment to addressing the challenges faced by children with Attachment Disorder.
Each year parents are invited to attend special parenting classes taught by various professionals and hosted by Help One Child.
Participants of The Parent Child Connection are invited to to call Help One Child’s prayer hotline 888-KID-HOPE with special prayer requests.
Valley Springs Presbyterian in Roseville, a Help One Child Ambassador Church, also offers a Parent Child Connection meeting facilitating by Carla Derose, a licensed therapist and adoptive mother. See their website Heart To Heart or email Paul and Joanne Jelle at heart2heartvspc@me.com.
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