La Plata Youth Services’ Chris Brown has developed a helpful workshop for parents to support them in their effort to improve their family's relationship with screen-time and tech use. Chris walks you through the "landscape" of our current tech-fueled culture, before jumping into helpful strategies, boundaries, and tools to support parents and their children navigate this landscape. Technology and screen use is a part of our lives in 2024, and Chris helps guide parents to create a healthy screen-use plan for their loved ones and themselves. 

Details:

• Durango: Three Springs Conference Room, January 15th

• Bayfield: Pine River Library, January 22nd

• Ignacio: ELHI Community Center, February 12th

Learn to de-escalate challenging situations with your child and work together to find solutions that everyone can live with.

Details:

• Durango: tbd, April 23rd

• Ignacio: ELHI Community Center, April 30th

We hear time and time again that bullying is a major issue in and out of schools, so we’re going to bring in local experts Al Wolfe and Taylar Moorehouse to help us navigate supporting our children through these challenges! Supporting our children and community in difficult situations can feel scary. Walk away from this interactive workshop with new skills to help your family navigate bullying, boundary setting, and being an active bystander.

Details:

• Bayfield: Pine River Library, March 26th

• Durango: March 12th

• Ignacio: ELHI Community Center, April 9th

This two-part workshop in Spanish will be held by local expert Brenda Chavez Alonso to help the community navigate mental health stigma and understand how to identify and support ourselves and our child(ren) through these challenges.

Details:

• Part 1, Supporting our Mental Health January 29th

• Part 2, Supporting our Children’s Mental Health February 26th

Reach out to Brenda at brenda@durangosaso.org or Caroline Hoge for location information

We know that sometimes, at the end of a long day, or when a kiddo comes home sick, going to an in-person event just isn’t an option. So this year, we are providing virtual, hour-long, Parenting Question and Answer sessions with Communication expert Rachel Turiel to answer your personalized questions and provide support most relevant to you! To make these sessions as impactful as possible, we will be limiting attendance to 12 parents per session. Registration for each session will open two week in advance and will be posted on our Facebook page: Facebook.com/TeamUPSWCO

Details:

• Second Mondays of the month from January through May

  • 01/13, 02/10, 03/10, 04/14, 05/12

• 5:30-6:30pm over Zoom

Here’s a list of other online workshops and supports available to parents and caregivers. Note that these are not affiliated with Team UP.

Ongoing Resources:

• Circle of Parents peer support groups (many have virtual options)

• Effects of Sleep and Technology on the Brain recording

• Conversation about Youth Mental Health recording

• Guide for Strengthening Relationships with your Teen

• Talking to Adolescents and Teens: Starting challenging conversations

• Learning to Help your Child and your Family

• Virtual Stress and Trauma curriculum

• Virtual Parenting Courses (Positive Parenting Skills, Child Psychology, Child Development with Whole-Brain Approach, Early Childhood Attachment Parenting, and more)

Upcoming Free Workshops:

• Cannabis and Youth: 01/07, 11:30-12:30

• Gaming and Gambling among Youth: 01/28 11:30-12:30