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2022 Parent Conference 

This year’s conference focused on Building Skills and Resilience in a Supportive Environment of Risk-Taking, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Colin King.

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About the Presentation

The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to have a range of impacts on the mental health of children, youth, and families.  Anxiety and stress among school-aged children have been a concern for many as children and families begin to return to routines and more regular activities.  Many families and educators are discovering their children and youth are struggling in new and unexpected ways with managing stress and approaching tasks with confidence and security.

This presentation provides a practical framework for parents and educators to help students manage their stress and continue to take small risks in their learning.  Participants will learn about the opportunities to help students understand the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and the intentional ways we can create flexible, supportive learning expectations and environments for students that build skills and resilience over time.

Key learning outcomes from the presentation will include: 

  • Knowledge about how social-emotional learning strategies can support school-aged children and youth
  • Learning about how supported risk-taking can help students manage anxiety and stress
  • Identify opportunities to create supportive, flexible risk-taking environments for students
  • Identify continued opportunities to work with other caring adults to support student mental health.  

Speaker Bio

Meet Colin King

Dr. Colin King is the Director of the Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic at Western University and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education.  As a School and Clinical Child Psychologist, he has worked and trained in a variety of hospital, community, private practice, and educational settings working with children and youth with various learning, social-emotional, and behavioural challenges.  Most recently, Colin worked in private practice and as a School Psychologist and Coordinator of Psychological Services in the Thames Valley District School Board.  Colin's ongoing research work includes making practices in school psychology more readily available to parents and communities and delivering new clinical models to support anxiety difficulties in children and youth.  

 

 Review KPR's Past Parent Conferences 

2021 Parent Conference 

Thank you to the 650 parents and caregivers who attended our 20th Annual Virtual Parent Conference October 16, 2021, with keynote speaker Dr. David Templeman! We also thank KPR’s Parent Involvement Committee for once again supporting this conference.

Dr. Templeman graciously agreed to have his presentation recorded for the benefit of those who were not able to join us online at the time of the conference. Watch his practical presentation titled “You’ve Got This! Mental Health After COVID: Getting Back to Normal”

 

 2020 Parent Conference 

For the first time ever, KPR's 19th Annual Parent Conference went virtual in 2020. To see the key note presentation from the 202 Parent Conference, watch the recording of "Drop the Worry Ball with Dr. Alex Russell." 

A Toronto-based clinical psychologist, Dr. Russell is also a well known and engaging speaker, and co-author of the book Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement.

 2019 Parent Conference

Thank you to everyone who attended KPR's 18th annual Parent Conference, held in October 2019 at Port Hope High School. If you missed it, you can still benefit from the information and tips offered by keynote speaker Dr. Michael Ungar and his presentation on "The Risk-Taker's Advantage: How to Make Kids More Resilient by Not Bubblewrapping Them."

 2018 Parent Conference

Thank you to everyone who attended KPR's 17th annual Parent Conference, "Minds Matter", held in October 2018 at Bowmanville High School. If you missed it, you can still benefit from the information and tips that were offered by keynote speaker Dr. Greg Wells and his presentation on "The Ripple Effect: Sleep, Think, Eat & Move Better" and through a variety of workshops.

Additional handouts and resources from the 2018 Parent Conference include:

  • Helping Your Child Learn Math Facts Through Games
  • Grounding Exercises
  • Progressive Relaxation
  • The Anatomy of Anxiety
  • Coding & Robotics with Kids 
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