Mindfully Managing Caregiver Stress: Proven Tools for Reducing Stress and Taking Care of Yourself, While Taking Care of Others (Northern Virginia)

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Description:

Raising children and youth, especially if they have special needs, can be exhausting! Join other adoptive and foster parents, grandparents and other kin caring for children for an evening of information and support.

Joy Koeppen, LCSW, a clinical therapist at Brain Injury Services and Formed Families Forward board member, will share tips based on her own experience raising a child with special needs and offer practical strategies for busting stress and boosting resilience. This session is designed to help parents, grandparents, relatives and other caregivers recognize their own stress responses, and develop practical strategies for coping all year long!

Date(s):


1/8/2018 6:30 PM ET - 1/8/2018 8:00 PM ET

Location(s):

Formed Families Forward
4031 University Drive
Suite 100
Fairfax, VA 22030

Tag(s):

All Disabilities Behavior Collaboration Parent/Family Professional Resources