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RESOURCES TO HELP YOU OUT AND WAYS FOR YOU TO CONNECT
Parenting, teaching, and helping kids with concerning behaviors can feel isolating, frustrating, thankless. And we’re going to do everything we can to ensure that you don’t feel that way anymore. Through our Facebook groups, we’re going to connect with you with others in similar situations. Through our podcasts, conferences, and other resources, we’re going to support you and help you learn more. We’ll keep you up-to-date with our newsletter (sign up below). And there’s even a section for kids! We invite you to become part of the village.
FACEBOOK GROUPS
Do you want to share ideas and experiences with parents, educators, and clinicians who are walking down a similar path? We have many Facebook groups for you to choose from (and, of course, you can participate in more than one):
The B Team (For Parents of Kids with Concerning Behaviors)
Elevate Your Parenting (For Parents of All Kids)
El Equipo B (Un grupo en Español para padres de niños con problemas de comportamiento)
Lost and Found (For Educators)
B Well (For Mental Health Clinicians and Staff in Therapeutic Facilities)
Advocators (For those who want to heighten awareness about counterproductive, punitive practices and help us to advocate for change)
PODCASTS
This is one of our most popular free resources. There are hundreds of podcasts for parents to help you learn more about the CPS model, so check out our library below.
If you don’t use i-Tunes, you can listen to past programs here.
Our podcast for parents airs live on the first Tuesday of every month at 11 am ET, September through May. Click here to listen in live…or call (347) 994-2981 to ask questions while the program is on the air.
For transcriptions of many of our parent podcasts, click here.
We’ve taken a pause on our podcast for educators, but you can listen to some of our most popular prior podcasts here.
CONFERENCES
Our conferences are a great way to connect with other parents, educators, and clinicians to learn more about Collaborative & Proactive Solutions and our advocacy efforts. Coming up fast: our our our Children’s Mental Health Conference (October 8) and our Annual Summit (October 29).
OUR PARENTING DURING THE PANDEMIC SURVEY
Very few caregivers and kids have been spared the stress, anxiety, upheaval, frustrations, and sometimes tragic aspects of the pandemic. It’s been really hard on almost everyone. In the Lives in the Balance Parenting During the Pandemic Survey — conducted with a large sample of parents in late 2020 — we found that parents of kids with concerning behaviors have been hit especially hard, reporting higher levels of stress, greater burnout, and a less optimistic view about their children’s futures than parents of children who do not exhibit concerning behavior. Read more about our findings by clicking below. And here’s an article from The Boston Globe that may be helpful.
COMIC RELIEF
Being a kid with concerning behaviors is no fun, and the caregivers of those kids aren’t exactly living the dream either. But sometimes a little humor can go a long way. So we’ve created some comics to perhaps bring a smile to your face, give you some perspective, and help you get back into the game. Click any comic to download a printable 8×10 PDF version. (Right-click to save the PDF.)
