Parent Training & Support Groups

Resident Voices Making Change

July 28, 2023

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.

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 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 6:30-8:00pm. 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 [email protected]

Brownie

With the completion of an elaborate new habitat built by Green Chimneys’ woodshop students, the Farm Science classroom was able to welcome Brownie into her new home. Brownie previously lived alone in her cage in the farm and wildlife office, but guinea pigs do best in larger environments. The new habitat allows her to live in a herd as she would in the wild, with many places to hide and ways to practice her skills. Brownie has always been a social creature, and she has taken over the guinea pig herd but is a very peaceful leader.