Parent Training & Support Groups

Time and Expertise Help Student Build Social-Emotional Skills

December 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

Sampson

Sampson is a mixed-breed sheep that came to Green Chimneys when he was just a few weeks old. He was bottle-raised by the children and, as a result of their love and care, has become one of the most trusting and gentle sheep at the barnyard. Each spring, Sampson is sheared to keep him comfortable through the hot summer months, and the children sell yarn made from his wool at the Green Chimneys Country Store.