Month: September 2020

Please note that these free services were for a limited time and are currently no longer available!

We are very excited to announce free services to eligible children, youth, adults, and families. We have received funding through the city of Calgary to support individuals and families impacted by COVID-19.

CanLearn is offering the following services free for eligible participants:

• ADHD Coaching and Parenting Support – Our certified, professional coaches work one-to-one with youth, adults, and families with young children to support skills development regarding planning, organizing, time management, and goal development. Sessions are offered online.
• Counselling – Our psychologists, counsellors and Masters/Doctoral level students offer individual and family counselling to eligible participants. Our counsellors work within evidence-based frameworks such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), family therapy, Mindfulness, and solution-focused therapies. Online sessions are available!
• Behavioural Consultation – Our psychologists, counsellors and students offer short-term, solution-focused behavioural consultations to parents, families and individuals experiencing difficulties with behaviour and emotion regulation. Our behavioural consultations are taking place online.
• Parenting Groups – We are offering our Calm Kids Happy Families group for free to eligible parents and families. We are offering online, group parenting sessions to support families experiencing difficulties with emotion/behaviour regulation and/or anxiety issues.
• Friends and Teen Talk Program – CanLearn also has funding through Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) to offer free one on one online sessions to children and teens needing support with anxiety, emotion regulation, social skills and behaviour difficulties. We are also delivering virtual sessions for cohort groups of students in the classroom to support relationship skills, emotion management and coping.

Our Covid-19-related funding ends December 2020, so reach out quickly to learn more and take advantage of this amazing opportunity to receive professional, supportive, and evidence-based services for free from CanLearn. We have been supporting Calgary for over 40 years and have loved every minute of it!

 

For more information, please contact Logan at [email protected] or call 403-686-9300, Ext. 102.

The Learning Starts at Home Program Continues – At a Distance

Would you like to know more about how children’s developmental skills come about? Are you limited to being at home to support your preschool child’s learning? Are you interested in learning creative ideas and strategies to help your child’s reading skills? Would you like to have fun? Then, our Learning Starts at Home Program might be just perfect for you!

Learning Starts at Home is a self-directed program to help parents support their children’s learning by encouraging their own adult learning goals.

Learning Starts at Home facilitators meet weekly for 14 weeks with families. In our brave new world of on-line communication and learning, they use platforms such as Zoom, Messenger or WhatsApp. Facilitators admit that they all miss the hugs and smiles from children and their families, but agree that on-line visiting is a beautiful alternative for staying connected for the time being.

Facilitators who visit with preschool and kindergarten aged children and their families use a learn through play approach. Staff share fun learning-based activities, books, songs and rhymes to strengthen early literacy skills, which lay the foundation for building good readers.

An equally important aspect of our visits is to awaken and strengthen social skills. These skills are a critical element to helping children succeed socially, emotionally, personally and even academically. Families who have participated in Learning Starts at Home tell us they enjoy being with and get along better with their children. They report that they now enjoy reading with their children, and because of this, their children ask more frequently for books to be read to them. Families also tell us they feel more informed about relevant community resources to meet their needs. Finally, parents share that they feel more knowledgeable and confident in supporting their children’s and their own adult learning.

Learning Starts at Home facilitators also support families who have learners in grades 1-3. Students in these grades who struggle with reading do so for a variety of reasons. Learning Starts at Home facilitators help parents and learners identify where in the layers of skills required to learn to read there has been a lack of understanding. When we can focus on where a reader is struggling, learning and strengthening can occur. Families with students in grades 1-3 who have participated in our program tell us that their children’s reading skills have improved. Parents now have information, strategies and confidence to help with reading moving forward. Parents also share that they have more knowledge of resources to advocate for their children and their own adult learning needs.

For more information about our free program or to register please contact Nada Jerkovic at 403-686-9300, extension 128.

 

Written by the Learning Starts at Home Program Facilitators

Please note that these free services were for a limited time and are currently no longer available!

Parenting kids with ADHD can be a challenge. Calm Kids, Happy Families is an online parenting group for building self-regulation strategies for children with ADHD or social-emotional concerns.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CanLearn is excited to announce that we will be providing free groups for parents with children (aged 6-12) with ADHD and other social-emotional concerns (no diagnosis is necessary).

This 6-week group works with parents to help them understand the emotional and behavioural needs of their children. It will help them to learn ways to help manage their emotions, engage in positive behaviours, maintain routines and structure, communicate effectively, problem-solve and navigate their digital world. The group sessions are live and interactive and 2-hours in length.

There is a maximum of 10 participants per group.

Participants must demonstrate an impact from COVID-19 to qualify for this free group.

Dates and Times

September 8 – October 13, 2020 – FULL
Tuesdays from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

October 31 – December 5, 2020 – FULL
Saturdays from 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

October 27 – December 1, 2020 – FULL
Tuesdays from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

November 3 – December 8, 2020 – FULL
Tuesdays from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Click here for new Winter 2021 dates.

Please note that these free services were for a limited time and are currently no longer available!

These have been challenging times and CanLearn is here to help!

Did you know that CanLearn has a trained, certified and credentialed ADHD Life Coach? Our ADHD Coach works with children, youth, adults, and families to help them to build and practice strategies to manage their ADHD, develop tools, and share resources. Our ADHD Coach has expertise in the areas of ADHD and self-regulation using the Mehrit Centre Foundations method.

We are thrilled to be able to offer up to 10 sessions per client!

To help with social distancing, we are offering all sessions online.

These sessions are not available at this time.

For more information regarding our services or to book an appointment, please email Intake or give us a call at 403-686-9300 Ext 102.