Parents/Students

COPING WITH FAMILY LIFE IN 2021

IS EASIER WITH FREE ONLINE SUPPORT

Many families are entering 2021 with extra emotional stress due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools have an important role to play in helping children and teenagers, and parents, to cope with challenges and uncertainty, focus on resilience, and maintain regular routines. Schools can also play a vital role in normalizing reaching out for support. This, in turn, helps students focus on their education with fewer emotional/behavioural difficulties.

Free access to the evidence-based online positive parenting program, Triple P Online (and/or Teen Triple P Online, for parents of teenagers), continues to be funded by the Alberta Government, to help parents and caregivers stay calm and consistent, and support their children’s and teenagers’ emotional resilience and pro-social behaviour.

Please help support your parenting community by letting them know that online support is available for Albertan families in the form of the

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program® - absolutely free, funded by the Alberta Government – and that many families in Canada and around the world are benefiting from this support.

• There are also specific and practical tips and positive parenting strategies for coping with changes to schooling (including learning from home, where applicable): https://www.triplep-parenting.ca/alb-en/get-started/hot-topics-about-raising-children-and-teenagers/and-school-life/

• We have also just launched our new Canadian Facebook page, which we invite you to follow and from which you can also share posts: https://www.facebook.com/triplep.canada

You may also wish to support your school community through your own communications channels, for example your school newsletter / website:

Coping with family life in 2021 is easier with free online support

Anxiety, uncertainty, financial stress, emotional and behavioural problems – we know that school families in Alberta continue to benefit from support to deal with ongoing challenges right now. To help all parents and carers support children’s and teenagers’ emotional wellbeing and success at school, FREE online support, funded by the Alberta Government is available via the online Triple P – Positive Parenting Program .

Triple P Online and Teen Triple P Online (parents can choose based on the ages of their children) offer useful tips and strategies to help you:

• Stay calm and optimistic and keep kids on track

• Cope with the extra parenting challenges created by COVID-19

• Raise resilient, well-adjusted children and teenagers

• Encourage positive behaviour and constructively manage problems

• Take care of yourself as a parent

The program includes videos and downloadable worksheets and you can work through it at your own pace. Both parents can sign up to do the program free of charge. For more information and to start, visit the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program website:www.triplep-parenting.ca

• Get tips right now to help you cope with school life and/or home schooling during COVID-19: https://www.triplep-parenting.ca/alb-en/get-started/hot-topics-about-raising-children-and-teenagers/and-school-life/

• Join our new Canada Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/triplep.canada

Thank you for being part of helping all children and teenagers get the best start in life – even in uncertain times.

Free access to Triple P Online and Teen Triple P Online for Albertan parents has been funded by the Alberta Government.

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we learn and work, and pay respect to the First Nations Peoples and their elders, past, present and future.