How to Create an Emotionally Safe and Enriching Environment
Virtual - Family Resource Network CalgaryParent Chat: Teaching Children Personal Boundaries & Consent
Virtual - Family Resource Network Calgary- No events scheduled for November 20, 2021.
- No events scheduled for November 21, 2021.
Week of Events
Domains of Wellness: Upholding the Child’s Right for Physical and Emotional Safety
Domains of Wellness: Upholding the Child’s Right for Physical and Emotional Safety
This workshop is in celebration of National Child Day and looks at various ways parents and caregivers can help to support children in staying more emotionally and physically safe. Participants in this workshop will learn various skills and strategies to help support children’s wellbeing in the various domains of wellness. This program is free of […]
Building Resilience Against Bullying
Building Resilience Against Bullying
This workshop will help parents and caregivers identify bullying behaviors, recognize the signs that their child is being bullied, and teach their children skills to stand up for themselves and others. This workshop will focus specifically on physical and verbal bullying and is geared to parents of preschool and elementary aged children. Register
Bellies and Babies
Bellies and Babies
YW Family Champions and Birth and Babies are collaborating! Please join us for a casual chat group where you can meet with an Alberta Health Services childbirth educator and connect with other parents on the topics of pregnancy, labor and birth, breastfeeding / feeding your baby, infant sleep, newborn care, transition to parenthood and early […]
Mental Health and Teens
Mental Health and Teens
We all want to see our teenagers get through their adolescent years healthy and happy. In this session, we will talk about common mental health challenges in adolescence, how to recognize when your teen is struggling, and how to help your teen stay mentally healthy. Register
How to Create an Emotionally Safe and Enriching Environment
How to Create an Emotionally Safe and Enriching Environment
This workshop will explore a variety of ways to create and foster an emotionally safe environment for families and support parents and caregivers to feel empowered to teach our little ones their entitled rights to a safe environment. Register
Parent Chat: Teaching Children Personal Boundaries & Consent
Parent Chat: Teaching Children Personal Boundaries & Consent
This workshop will support parents and caregivers in understanding consent and how to help children build and practice expressing consent. This extends to supporting and practicing children’s right to knowledge, privacy, and safety at young age. In addition, to increase awareness of National Child Day, Canadian Rights of the Child and explore ways to teach […]
Mindfulness and Healthy, Safe Families
Mindfulness and Healthy, Safe Families
Learn about Mindfulness in the context of Children’s Rights. This workshop is a preventive opportunity for parents to learn mindfulness skills and emotional regulation techniques to create healthier, safer families. Register
Music and Movement
Music and Movement
We will be sharing the fun of different songs, rhymes, movements, and stories on different children’s rights. The focus is creative, emotional expression (children’s right to expression and play). Register
Supporting Resilient Children: Foundations and Strategies
Supporting Resilient Children: Foundations and Strategies
This workshop explores children’s rights and the important role caregivers’ play in supporting the development of emotional, spiritual, physical and intellectual well-being of children. The workshop will explain environmental influences on child development, types of stress, and how the caregiver-child relationship can buffer the effects of adversity. Learn practical tools to recognize the impacts of […]
Story Time
Story Time
Join us as we read aloud to the children and learn about the benefits of this fun and easy activity. Different stories will be featured each week. Register
Keep Your Home Language Alive
Keep Your Home Language Alive
Talking to your child in your first language supports language learning best! Serve and return interactions support language growth and learn with us how to support that. We will explore how to build literacy in our first language. Register
FC Family Activity : NCD Story Time
FC Family Activity : NCD Story Time
Reading different stories on CRC article, focusing on emotional safety. Register
Family Activity: Emotional Affirmation Bracelet
Family Activity: Emotional Affirmation Bracelet
Join us as we celebrate National Child’s Day by learning about different emotions! We will be using different coloured beads to symbolize various affirmation messages. Children will create and wear to remind them of positive affirmations. Register
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