St. Catharine's & Niagara Chapter
"Come join us - Children's Mental Health is everyone's business."
CONTACT INFORMATION
N. COPE Niagara
~Does your child suffer from a mental health issue? ~Does your family “Cope” with daily struggles, basic tasks, school issues? Our group meets monthly, supporting parents, lead by parents who have experienced similar issues, creating an understanding, non-judgemental atmosphere.
About Us …
We are parents of spectacular, gifted children. Children who suffer daily, struggling with some of the most basic of tasks. Our goals....to help our children be successful so they can achieve their dreams. We discuss, laugh, and sometimes cry. We provide strategies to help each other "cope". We have educational evenings, relaxation nights, yoga sessions, and coming soon...a spa night.
Where and when we Meet …
Monday January 18th, 7-9 pm Monday February 15th, 7-9 pm
Monday March 29th, 7-9 pm Monday April 26th, 7-9 pm
Monday May 17th, 7-9 pm Monday June 21st, 7-9 pm
We meet at……
Niagara Child and Youth Services
3340 Schmon Parkway, Thorold, Ontario
St. Davids Road West Exit from the 406
To see if we’re what your looking for, or to RSVP your attendance
Contact Sonia Melnyk 905.682.7634 or Andrea Betts 905.988.9612
ABOUT OUR FAMILIES
Family is all-inclusive. Families can be from all incomes, education, racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. They can be single parent or two parent families. They can be birth parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents ~~~ they all need help, they all need support, and they all need tools to cope.
Our Goals—To Educate, Empower, Support
To advance the unique needs of children with mental health diagnoses and their families, to dissolve the stigma attached to children’s mental illness, to encourage and recommend research, prevention, early intervention, family support, and family-centred and family-driven care, to work with mental health agencies and government to ensure that children and their families with these unique needs and struggles have access to community based services to help them reach their full potential.
Research-based knowledge suggests that biological, social, psychological and environmental factors are all important.
