Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Ka-Na-Chi-Hih, Specialized Solvent Abuse Treatment Centre,
1700 Dease Street, Thunder Bay
Description:
This workshop is designed to help service providers intervene in a positive way with children and to help the parents offer similar positive discipline strategies to their children. This workshop is based on the Best Start Resource Centre awareness campaign Children See… Children Learn.
Learning objectives:
- Participants will understand the negative impact of corporal and emotional punishment on children.
- Participants will be able to explain the principles of positive discipline and their application.
- Participants will know intervention strategies to use with children and parents to reduce the use of corporal and emotional punishment of children.
Who should attend:
Service providers working with young children and with the parents of young children. This may include staff from Ontario Early Years Centres, community health centres, public health units, daycares, schools, etc.
Registration:
The cost of this workshop is $75 per participant. Lunch is included.
Registration will start at 8:30 and the workshop will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Presented by:
Dr. Chaya Kulkarni
Director of Infant Mental Health Promotion
Hospital for Sick Children
Louise Choquette
Bilingual Health Promotion Consultant
Best Start Resource Centre
For questions relative to registration, please contact:
Roshni Juttun: r.juttun@healthnexus.ca; 1-800-397-9567 or 416-408-2249 ext. 2336.
For questions relative to content, please contact:
Louise Choquette: l.choquette@healthnexus.ca; 1-800-397-9567 or 416-408-2249, ext. 2276.