Parent Training & Support Groups

Back to School: A Parent’s Perspective

September 21, 2020

We believe family connections are essential to treatment and growth. Having the tools to help manage your child’s challenges, strengthen family communication, and maintain self-care are also essential to your child’s success. Green Chimneys offers regular opportunities to build your knowledge as well as a strong network of parent-to-parent support.

Parent Training Series

Live online workshops are designed to help you expand your repertoire of skills to manage your child’s emotional and behavioral challenges, and take care of yourself in the process. Sessions combine our Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) curriculum with that of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) in order to provide you with both skills in-the-moment and skills to help you effect real long-term change. Each session will include a large group teach and small group breakouts to allow for questions and practice.

Parent Training is held every other Tuesday from 6:30-8:00pm via Zoom. Participants are asked to pre-register for each training they plan to attend. A Zoom link is sent to all registrants in advance of each session.

Parent Support Groups

Virtual Parent Support Groups are facilitated by Green Chimneys clinicians via Zoom for one hour on the third Tuesday of every month from 6:30-7:30pm. All parents and caregivers are welcome to attend any session; there is no need to RSVP. If the group becomes large, facilitators will move smaller groups of parents into virtual breakout rooms. A Zoom link will be shared with all families to join a session at any time.

For more information or to request access a group, please contact Marina Ineson at mineson@greenchimneys.org

Russian Tortoise

There’s a reason this Russian Tortoise looks so iconic; it’s one of the most popular breeds sold in pet stores. This gentleman arrived at the Green Chimneys Wildlife Center as a rescue and secured a regular role in the classroom, helping students study the differences between tortoises and turtles; tortoises dwell on land, while turtles live in the water some or nearly all of the time. He has a reputation for being very active and outgoing and on warm, sunny days, the students take him outside to search for dandelion leaves to eat.