Course Tag: family

Our current health crisis creates daily challenges that many of us have never experienced. Our children can’t easily spend time with their friends. We can’t just stop in at the local pizza place to chill out on a Friday evening. Our daily schedules are both gone and more complicated at the same time. We are facing the challenge of inventing new ways of doing things many times each day. How is your family handling the challenge of creating new ways of coping and thriving? How are you doing at authentically tuning into your own needs and modeling wellness for your kids? 

Participants in this class will be able to: 

• Recognize the importance of slowing down and changing expectations 
• Identify family meeting strategies that suit your family and increase collaboration and cooperation 
• Apply approaches that help siblings tolerate each other with kindness 
• Apply communication and parenting approaches that focus on optimism, resilience and connection to effectively navigate the new normal as a family. 

If you are the parent of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning (LGBTQ) child, you probably have a lot of questions. Your support is key to your child’s well-being, but you may have to go through your own process to get there. Start with, “I’m here for you and love you,” even if you don’t understand and aren’t ok at the moment. Plan to get your own support so that you can process your deepest emotions and concerns, while helping your child to deal with their own. Join Peace At Home guest experts Barbara Esgalhado, PhD and Poshi Walker, MSW with founder Ruth Freeman, LCSW to gain some ideas about helping your child thrive, while exploring your own path to understanding and genuine acceptance.

Schools face academic loss challenges every year, and in response to COVID-19 we are seeing an even greater loss and a widening of the achievement gap. So how can we address the loss and build understanding? First, we can start with building empathy, and then as a community, we can embrace the academic challenge.

Led by Peace at Home Parenting experts Amy Alamar, Ed D, and Dana Asby, MA, M Ed, this series addresses the important issues faced by educators: How do we build community and approach academics after such a challenging time in education? What have students experienced, what do they need, and how can we begin to capture their attention and engage them in learning? We will introduce practical and effective ways to emphasize emotional safety and equity for in-person and hybrid environments. 

This series supports the ability of educators to:

• Recall strategies to build resilience
• Foster community and nurture relationships
• Recognize and address grief 
• Establish/Re-establish routine
• Use mindfulness to teach self-regulation at home and at school
• Contribute toward a common vision for the community

Essential Library:
Schools and Families Working Together to Support Social Emotional Skills
Stress Reduction for Children, Parents, and Educators
Understand Executive Functions, Emotions, and Self-Regulation
Back-to-School: Reconnection and Recovery
Address Academic Loss and Increase Academic Engagement

Extended Library:
Use Conversation to Build Understanding
Build Confidence with Growth Thinking
Language Matters! Give Feedback that Changes Brains

If you are a parent or a supervisor trying to find a balance between work and home responsibilities and boundaries, you are not alone. A family friendly supervisor finds ways to support working parents who may need flexible working arrangements outside of standard employment practices. Bureau of labor statistics show that and a survey of working parents revealed that 85% would be more loyal to their employers if they had a flexible work arrangement. Other research shows that flexible workers may face bias that leads them to be perceived as less productive and less committed to work. In this series supervisors will learn about the flexibility bias, the source of this bias as well as consequences, and explore the relevant research and the strong business case for flexible work arrangements.

• Learn family friendly supervision strategies that work
• Reflect on personal beliefs, attitudes and biases regarding flexible work arrangements 
• Understand the origin of the flexibility bias 
• Define flexibility bias and flexibility stigma 
• Understand the effect of flexibility bias and stigma on employees with families 
• Recognize what research tells us about the impact of flexible work arrangements on productivity and profit 
• Identify and apply strategies to overcome flexibility bias