• Home
• About Us
  • Mission Statement & History
  • Community Partnerships
  • Membership
• Parent Support Services
  • Parent Helpline
  • Parent Email Support
  • Parent Workshops
    • Workshop Schedule
  • Parent Coaching
    • Parent Coaching with Keri or Sadaf
  • Parenting Blog
  • Parenting Pamphlets
• Donate
  • Ways to Give
  • How Your Donation Helps
  • Supporters
• Career Opportunities
• Contact/Parent Helpline

Parent Workshops

Click Here for Times and Dates

Our parenting workshops are educational, supportive and customized to the needs of participants. Workshop sessions offer parents and caregivers an opportunity to:

• meet other parents and caregivers,
• share concerns about children and family life
• learn more about children and positive parenting

Our parenting workshops generally are run as a series of 4-8 sessions, one session per week for two hours. Usually we offer an early learning/childcare program for children age 18 months to 5 years. Infants and older babies are very welcome to attend workshops with parents.

In addition to our multiple-session parenting series, we provide single session presentations to community groups on a variety of parenting topics such as infant sleep, bedtime battles, tantrum taming, child temperament, and guidance and discipline. Our series and single session presentations are offered at various community locations, usually in Burnaby and New Westminster, both on a fee-for-service and on a no-charge basis.

Please fill out a contact form here for more information about:

• registering for an upcoming workshop series
• booking a fee-for-service presentation for your organization

• Sleep and Bedtimes In person workshop

   

  Sign up at tinyurl.com/ICWinter24

  

• Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers

  In this interactive series, the focus is on understanding the unique challenges parents of children under age 5 encounter as their children move through the toddler and preschool years. Topics include but are not limited to: effective communication, the link between behaviour and temperament, understanding child development, having appropriate behavioral expectations, and responding to children’s misbehaviour in ways that promote growth and self regulation. Responding to temper tantrums, coping with separation anxiety, teaching social skills such as sharing and turn taking are a few examples of topics that can be included. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. SPACE LIMITED.

  

• Parenting is Hard Work (Birth – 5yrs)

  This discussion based supportive series is for anyone who has ever wanted to talk about the job of parenting in a small group setting with other parents. Topics covered will be tailored to the specific needs of the participants. Some examples of topics covered are: managing temper tantrums, discipline vs. punishment, parent emotions, coping with the stress, and parent self-care. The goal of this series is to provide an opportunity for parents of young children to discuss their concerns and share their successes and challenges in a safe and supportive environment. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. SPACE LIMITED.

• Parenting in the Middle Years (6-12 years)

  This is a supportive and educational series for parents of children ages 6 to 12 years. Understanding middle childhood development, encouraging social-emotional competency, responding to school and family life challenges, fostering positive peer relationships, communicating effectively, understanding temperament, and strategies for effective, positive discipline in the middle years will be covered. Parenting styles and coping with the stresses and strains of parenting will also be included.  The goal of this series is to provide parents with a forum to learn, to share and to discuss information and strategies to enrich their parenting experience. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. SPACE LIMITED.

• Babies and Sleep – FAQ Presentation

  The Baby’s and Sleep presentation is most relevant to parents of babies’ age birth to 1 year who are struggling with their baby’s sleep, or want to learn more about helping their baby develop good sleep habits, now or in the future.

  Frequently asked questions or challenges like the following are addressed:

  • Why does my baby awaken so often during the night?
  • How can I teach my baby to fall asleep without me?
  • Why isn’t my baby sleeping as well as she used to?
  • My baby will only sleep in my arms.  As soon as I put him down, he wakes up.
  • I’m not comfortable with the “cry it out” method. What other strategies should I try?