Programs & Services > Areas of Expertise: Parenting
Areas of Expertise: Parenting
Being a parent can be tough sometimes, whether you're raising kids on your own, or with a partner. But some things can make the job even harder - things like being new in your community, or being isolated by cultural or language barriers, or being unemployed.
At FST, we offer services services geared to assist parents and families going through various difficult circumstances:
- Community Parent Education Program - COPE - helps improve parent - child relationship through group work with both parents and children. Learn more >>
- Families in Transition - a program dedicated to parents going through difficult transitions: separation, divorce and remarriage. Learn more >>
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Parenting Network - provides resources, information and support to LGBT parents and their families LGBT Counselling - general counselling for LGBT parents. Learn more >>
- Growing Up Healthy Downtown (GUHD) - assists parents and children with the challenges of growing up in downtown Toronto. Learn more >>
We can help you with:
- Learning to communicate more effectively with your kids
- Encouraging cooperation with respect to chores, mealtimes, schoolwork, etc.
- Building successful stepfamilies
- Promoting positive relationships between brothers and sisters
- Finding solutions for difficult or disruptive behaviour
- Resolving conflicts
- Finding time to have fun with your children
- Finding time for yourself
