Date: Thursday, February 18th, 2021
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: The webinar link will be shared with you via email prior to the session start time.

Encouragement is more than saying “You’re a great kid”. This workshop will give you the strategies you need to help your child feel self-confident and happy with her or himself —just as she or he is. Research has shown that children with high self-esteem have an advantage in dealing with life’s challenges. Perfectionism, praise, and handling mistakes positively are all examined in this enlightening workshop.

Facilitator: Karen Skinulis is a Registered Psychotherapist who specializes in parenting and family issues. She is also the co-author of three parenting books and a teacher’s book on classroom management.

Registration required. University of Toronto students, staff, faculty, postdoctoral fellows and their families are welcome.

If you have any access needs to ensure your full participation in this event, please contact the Family Care Office and we will try our best to work with you and make appropriate arrangements.

Date: Monday, November 9th, 2020
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Location: The webinar link will be shared with you via email prior to the session start time.

This webinar will look at parenting from the lens of Black fathers and what it means to parent Black children during a time of Covid-19 and Anti- Black racism. What does it mean to teach our Black children about self-love during a time of discrimination and hate?

Find out about strategies, tools, resources available to support Black children around education, policing and mentorship.

This webinar will also touch on allyship and what can non-Black folks do for their part to challenge anti-Black racism in Toronto.

Facilitator: Brandon Hay (MES), founder of the Black Daddies Club, www.theblackdaddiesclub.com.

Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Location: University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, Room AA160

This practical and informative presentation helps parents develop a strong foundation of parenting that will help their children (baby to school age) develop skills for social development and well-being. Participants will also learn effective strategies to facilitate positive behaviour, prevent misbehaviour and to deal effectively with inappropriate behaviour.

During this 1 hour wellness session participants will:

• Discuss how to develop a strong foundation of parenting
• Use this foundation as a springboard to parenting practices that help your child develop skills of social development and well-being
• Learn effective strategies to facilitate positive behaviour, prevent misbehaviour and to deal effectively with inappropriate behaviour

Facilitator: Homewood Health

Date:  Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Time:  1:00 – 2:00 pm
Location:  University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, Room AA160

Will your child only eat one food and refuse all others? Learn about the roles and responsibilities of the parent and the child in the feeding relationship, how to help your child develop healthy eating habits, how to deal with picky eating and create a stress-free mealtime environment. An important topic for parents of infants and toddlers as well as older children.

Facilitator: FoodShare

Registration required. University of Toronto students, staff, faculty, and their partners are welcome. Please let us know if you have any mobility challenges so we can accommodate your needs.

Learn about how to help your child develop healthy eating habits, how to deal with picky eating and to create a stress-free mealtime environment, as well as the roles and responsibilities of both parent and child in the feeding relationship.

Facilitator: Aviva Allen is one of Toronto’s leading Kids’ Nutritionists specializing in helping parents deal with their picky eaters. Aviva helps children and their families establish healthy eating habits through her nutritional counselling practice and is also the founder of Healthy Moms Toronto, helping connect moms throughout the GTA.

Registration required. University of Toronto students, staff, faculty, and their partners are welcome. Please let us know if you have any mobility challenges so we can accommodate your needs.

Are you or your partner expecting a baby? Or are you a grandparent? This is a workshop for your parents and in-laws – or for you, if you are or will be a grandparent soon – to update knowledge about evidence-based, safe infant care practices in areas such feeding, sleeping, and babysitting. Active discussions will be encouraged.

Facilitator: Jody MacDonald RN EdD

Expectant grandparents/grandparents of infants of University of Toronto students, staff and faculty are welcome, as well as expectant grandparents/grandparents of infants who are themselves University of Toronto staff, student and faculty. Grandparents and expectant grandparents only, please!

An interactive session facilitated by former participants of our Expectant Parents Group. They will talk from their experience and answer questions about baby equipment and gadgets and will also touch on their birthing experience and the first months as they talk about what equipment was useful to their family.

All students, staff, faculty and their partner/spouse are welcome to attend. Registration required.

Have you been dreaming about owning your own home? Find out how to make your dream come true faster and easier. Know if home ownership is right for you and feel confident and prepared to make key decisions about buying a home. Assess your housing needs, what you can afford to buy, your financial preparedness, and learn about the ongoing cost of home ownership.

Presented by CMHC, Student Housing & Family Care Office. If you have questions about buying a home, this workshop will educate and guide you in the direction that best suits your needs

This workshop addresses the issue of bullying and peer abuse by children and youth. Proactive anti-bullying intervention strategies for children, parents and staff are explored. This workshop will strengthen participants’ capacity to respond effectively to the problem of bullying.

Many parents are concerned about the high rates of bullying occurring among school-aged girls. In this session parents will hear from bullying expert, Dr. Faye Mishna. Parents will gain information on the following topics:

• The different forms that bullying may take among girls, including cyber-bullying, physical bullying and relational bullying
• What to do if their child is being bullied or is bullying
• What resources are available and how to access them

Facilitator:

Dr. Faye Mishna is Dean and Professor at the Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto and is cross-appointed to the Department of Psychiatry. Faye holds the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Chair in Child and Family. Faye’s program of research is focused on bullying; cyber abuse/cyber bullying and cyber counselling; and school-based interventions for students with learning disabilities. An integral component of her research entails collaboration with community agencies and organizations. Her scholarly publications have focused on bullying, social work education and clinical practice. Prior to joining the Faculty, she was Clinical Director of a children’s mental health centre serving children and youth with learning disabilities. She is a graduate and faculty member of the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Program. She maintains a small private practice in psychotherapy and consultation.