Download Mental Wellness Parenting Supporting parents in their care

Eligibility Criteria
An individual is eligible if he/she
meets the following criteria:
 Actively parenting while
coping with depression and/or
anxiety
 Overwhelmed with daily
parenting
 Want to develop new
strategies to support mental
wellness for themselves and
their families.
Mental Wellness Parenting is
available for parents, who are
actively parenting, while coping with
depression and/or anxiety.
Fraser Health, Mental Health
Rehabilitation and Recovery Services
provide this program in partnership with
the Family Education and Support
Centre
Mental Wellness
Up to $500
is available per family
Parenting
each year.
Accessing Service
Participation is voluntary and selfreferred. Please call or email to
register.
Brief registration and assessment
for program suitability will be
conducted by program
coordinator.
Accessing Service
Caregivers can be referred to the
service by:
Please contact:
Marlayne Penner, MC, CCC
Costs of program
Free 8 week program, enrollment
is limited
Child Minding
Complimentary On Site Child
Care Available (limited availability)
Family Connections Counselling
604-859-7681, ex 304
[email protected]
 A mental health professional
Supporting
parents in their
or family doctor
care-giving role
 A community or government
agency
 Self-referral
Topics covered
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Program Purpose
Mental Wellness Parenting
Mental Wellness Parenting is an
8 week group which has
components of psycho-education,
cognitive behavioural therapy and
social support interaction. It is
designed for parents:
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experiencing major
depression and/or
generalized anxiety;
to develop self care
strategies while still caring
for their families;
to support attachment
parenting by providing on
site childminding and
developing mental health
communication strategies;
to feel less isolated by
sharing and learning from
other parents in the group.
The group is co-facilitated by
mental/family health
professionals.
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Symptoms of depression
and anxiety
Patterns of stressful
behaviour in parenting
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Strategies for wellness
and self-care
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Communication strategies
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Preventative and coping
techniques
It's not only children who grow.
Parents do too. As much as we
watch to see what our children do
with their lives, they are watching us
to see what we do with ours. I can't
tell my children to reach for the sun.
All I can do is reach for it, myself.
~Joyce Maynard
Where:
Abbotsford Community Services
2420 Montrose Ave
Abbotsford, BC
When:
6-8pm, February 15-April 4, 2016
Recovery….
We are “recovery’ oriented in our
philosophy of care and believe that :
 It is important to provide
parents with the psychosocial
education and support in
promoting their own health and
well-being as well as their
children and families;
 Families and friends embark on
the process of recovery
alongside their
children/relative/loved one;
 Parental Mental Health issues
are treatable and recovery is
possible.