Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Children’s Living Include Moments of Bravery (CLIMB) program at the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation’s Maplesoft Centre
Children’s Lives Include Moments of Bravery (CLIMB) is a group program developed by the Children’s Treehouse Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to the emotional support of children who have parents or a loved one living with cancer. The CLIMB program at the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation offers six weekly group sessions, at no cost, during which conversation and art are used to help children ages 6-11 identify and appropriately express complex feelings. They keep their own workbook to capture their progress, which they can share with their family at home.
The aim is to build upon the child’s strengths and enhance his/her ability to cope with stress associated with the parent’s illness.
Some of the benefits of this program include:
- An increase in the children’s knowledge about cancer and its treatment
- Normalization of feelings of sadness
- Children are better able to identify strengths and normalize anxiety
- Children are better equipped to express and manage anger appropriately
- Communications about feelings are improved
- Communications with the parents or loved one who have cancer are improved
- Overall, children learn that cancer is “not their fault”, that they are not alone and they are better equipped to express feelings and cope with change
The children’s group will run on Tuesday evenings from 6-7:30pm, September 17th 2013 to October 22nd 2013. There will be a preliminary parents orientation session that the parent(s) or guardian(s) are asked to attend the week before.
***FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER YOUR CHILD FOR THE PROGRAM, PLEASE CONTACT MELINA LADOUCEUR, MSW, RSW, CANCER COACH, AT 613-247-3527 EXT 236.
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