Take a couple of hours to yourself, you deserve it! Grab dinner, run some errands, or just relax. Christ Central Presbyterian Church will be hosting a Parents Night Out at Union Presbyterian Church! Foster, adoptive, and kinship parents are free to take a night for themselves. Meanwhile, your children are cared for by staff who...
Course Description: Parenting children from hard places requires that parents and caregivers have a working knowledge of trauma and its effects on behavior, learning, and home/school climate. Without adequate awareness of trauma’s impact on the child’s neurophysiological system, behavior and cognition, children can often experience their environment as unsafe, thus leading to at-risk encounters, depression,...
Course Description: Parenting children from hard places requires that parents and caregivers have a working knowledge of trauma and its effects on behavior, learning, and home/school climate. Without adequate awareness of trauma’s impact on the child’s neurophysiological system, behavior and cognition, children can often experience their environment as unsafe, thus leading to at-risk encounters, depression,...
This is a support group for foster, adoptive, and kinship dads to connect with one another over coffee and donuts! Childcare is provided.
Description: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) affect over half of the children adopted from Eastern Europe and our own foster care system. This damage to the brain causes a wide range of difficulties in behavior and learning, and often gets incompletely diagnosed as ADHD, Bipolar, RAD, PTSD, Autism and of course Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Recognizing...
Take a couple of hours to yourself, you deserve it! Grab dinner, run some errands, or just relax. Foster, adoptive, and kinship parents are free to take a night for themselves. Meanwhile, your children are cared for by staff who work alongside trained volunteers from Los Gatos Elite a safe, structured, and fun environment. The...
