Lee’s Summit CARES
Positive Parenting Practices
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR FREE PRE-RECORDED PARENTING WEBINARS
Parenting Teens
Building Healthy Communication Habits
Navigating Change
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If you’d like to request an in-person presentation at your place of business on any of these topics, please contact us to discuss. We are happy to provide Lunch and Learn opportunities.
Introduction to Parenting
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Parenting Teens: Part 1
Learn how to help teens navigate into adulthood. Brain development, typical behavior vs. warning, and available resources.
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Introduction to Youth Mental Health
This webinar is designed to help families adapt in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, or significant sources of stress, such as living during a pandemic. By strengthening your resilience, you can deal with excessive life demands while learning how to cope better.
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Power of Parents
This program empowers parents of middle and high school students to have ongoing, intentional conversations about the dangers and consequences of underage drinking.
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Parenting Teens: Part 2
Adapt your parenting style for these critical years. Maintaining positive relationships, discipline strategies, and saying ‘no’ to negative influences.
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Introduction to Mindfulness
Learn a few practices that can help you live a more meaningful life! Applications for both adults and youth will be shared.
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Are You a Good Listener?
Improve your parent/child relationship with communication strategies that work! Learn how to be a better listener, how to communicate so that your child listens, and strategies to resolve conflict.
Coping with Change, Trauma or Difficult Topics
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Nurturing a Resilient Family
Learn strategies to help your family better adapt in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, or even significant sources of stress, such as a pandemic.
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Talking to Your Kids About Difficult Subjects
Learn how to guide your children through difficult situations and address tough topics such as death, divorce, racism, natural disasters, etc.
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Flattening the Stress Curve
Join Love and Logic Facilitator Kerri Gray as she discusses how parents can lower stress in themselves and their families.
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Helping Youth Overcome Social Anxiety
Improve social interactions, develop meaningful relationships, and reduce anxiety.
Navigating School and Sports
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Back to School Success: Setting the Stage for a Great School Year
Topics include back-to-school anxiety, maintaining student motivation regardless of the learning platform, and how to help children succeed in school.
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Manage Change and Transitions
Learn how parents can help kids manage school and other transitions with a focus on the move from elementary to middle school and from middle school to high school.
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Cyberbullying: Information for Parents
Learn how to foster positive youth mental health, recognize signs of problems, and support someone going through a mental health challenge.
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Win or Lose, Champions for Life
Help your child build inner strength through activities and sports. Encourage kids to develop their potential while teaching important character traits.
Building a Nurturing Home
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Keeping the Peace in Your Home
Join us for an online class about keeping the peace in your home—especially challenging while we spend more time at home.
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Family Teamwork
Learn strategies and techniques to get your child to help with chores.
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Creative Ways to Respond to “I’m Bored!”
Stress-reducing ways parents can respond when their kids say, “I’m bored!”
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Helping Your Family Adapt to Change
How change impacts you and your family, especially during times of crisis. Learn specific strategies and techniques for responding and adjusting to change.