Senior Parent Transition Workshop

On Tuesday 21st May, AISL hosted a Senior Parent Transition Workshop. This workshop was designed to help parents, whose teens are leaving for college, military service, or the workplace, cope with change as their teens leave home. At the beginning of the session, the parents expressed how they were feeling (see the interesting picture gallery!).

They then learned about:

• building resilience,
• developing coping strategies,
• supporting their teen from a distance,
• informing their teen about safety,
• reducing high-risk behavior, and
• identifying support networks.

Organized by Julie Baldry, the High School and College Guidance Counselor, the workshop was a collaboration between the Secondary Special Educational Needs Coordinator, Angela Ingram, the High School Special Educational Needs teacher, Martin Mikus, and parents with counseling expertise, Noa Mor and Sonal Desai. Two of the presenters had also experienced recently their teen leaving home, and the emotions that this change evoked.

Feedback from the session was positive, and we will most certainly offer parent workshops such as this one in the future.

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