As we continue to exist in a “socially distanced” world, we are eager to provide your child with an opportunity for safe socialization and support around navigating friendships and emotions. This year we are planning to offer groups for children over telehealth (video). Our plan this year is for our groups to start in late October and run through the 2020-2021 school year with breaks over holidays.

This program will provide an educational forum and a venue for exchange of ideas and concerns, assisting providers and volunteers in providing this essential service.

Other topics that will be addressed include:

Systematic instruction, an evidence-based method for teaching individuals with disabilities, focuses on the steps necessary to complete a job-related task with little or no supports. Marc Gold & Associates will conduct six half-day components of Customized Employment Training featuring:

As we continue to exist in a “socially distanced” world, we are eager to provide your child with an opportunity for safe socialization and support around navigating friendships and emotions. This year we are planning to offer groups for children over telehealth (video). Our plan this year is for our groups to start in late October and run through the 2020-2021 school year with breaks over holidays.

This group was developed to help your child participate in a fun family activity and develop a lifelong skill, baking! Similar to our “I Can Cook” group, each week a new recipe will be featured while focusing on hand strength and dexterity needed to open containers, using utensils, mixing, pouring, etc. These skills also enhance academic and self-care skills.

Systematic instruction, an evidence-based method for teaching individuals with disabilities, focuses on the steps necessary to complete a job-related task with little or no supports. Marc Gold & Associates will conduct six half-day components of Customized Employment Training featuring:

As we continue to exist in a “socially distanced” world, we are eager to provide your child with an opportunity for safe socialization and support around navigating friendships and emotions. This year we are planning to offer groups for children over telehealth (video). Our plan this year is for our groups to start in late October and run through the 2020-2021 school year with breaks over holidays.

Virtual Sibshops offer brothers and sisters of children with a variety of special needs a place to meet other siblings in a relaxed, supportive, and recreational setting. They discuss their common joys and concerns, learn to handle sibling-specific “sticky situations” and have fun! For kids ages 6-12 years old. Teens are also welcome. Contact us for more information.

Systematic instruction, an evidence-based method for teaching individuals with disabilities, focuses on the steps necessary to complete a job-related task with little or no supports. Marc Gold & Associates will conduct six half-day components of Customized Employment Training featuring:

Looking for a fun way to learn social awareness, communication skills, and self-regulation? The Social Superhero Training Academy is open! In this speech-language pathologist-lead group, children will use Social Thinking Curriculum to learn to be flexible-thinking superheroes. They will learn to defeat cartoon characters who embody different social challenges such as Rock Brain, who makes people get stuck on their own ideas, Body Snatcher, who moves people’s bodies away from the group, and Topic Twistermeister, who makes people jump off topic.

Response for Teens is excited to offer two workshops for college-age young people that will cover important and relevant topics that they didn’t learn in high school sex education classes.

Have you discovered a book about grief that is helping or has been meaningful to you in your grief journey? Whether your loss is recent or several years ago, we invite you to share a title or author whose work has spoken to you. Or ask about one you’ve been thinking about. It can be fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose. We will also bring books from JCFS’ library as well as a bibliography and other grief resources for further exploration. In our hour together, through literature of all types, we will learn and support one another in the grief process.

Systematic instruction, an evidence-based method for teaching individuals with disabilities, focuses on the steps necessary to complete a job-related task with little or no supports. Marc Gold & Associates will conduct six half-day components of Customized Employment Training featuring:

The seminar will provide an overview of Complex Trauma including diagnostic features, how to differentiate between co-morbid diagnoses, and neurological effects of trauma.