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Pilgrim Area Collaborative
Extended Services
Connecting School-Home-Community
2014-2015
FREE Parent Workshop Offerings
For further information or questions about specific workshops please contact:
Deb Booth, PACES Program Coordinator
Phone: 781-293-6111, Ext. 21
E-mail: dbooth@pilgrimac.org
Nothing teaches children more than a
parent who is willing to learn.
~ Author Unknown


What is Your Childs Social Thinking Prole?
November 12, 2014 7:00-9:00
Do you feel like your child struggles socially and wonder what type of
Social Communicator your child is? During this workshop we will
idenfy and describe the ve dierent types of social thinkers dened
by Michelle Garcia Winner and explore their strengths and areas of
concern. We will discuss the best treatment opons and specic goals
to target to support individual success.


Taking Care of Me: Relaxaon Class for Parents &
Caregivers of Children with Special Needs
November 19, 2014 6:30-8:00
Parenng can be challenging, especially if you are a parent of a child
with special needs. Come rejuvenate with others who understand
what you are experiencing at home and leave with a valuable set of
calming tools for you and your family. This presentaon will focus on
the integraon of stress management tools & relaxaon techniques
into the challenges of everyday life. It will examine the bodys
response to stressors and more importantly how to learn to illicit the
relaxaon response in order to cope with stress.
The coping mechanisms of diaphragmac breathing, restorave yoga,
mindfulness meditaon, and guided imagery will be discussed and
demonstrated in this program.
Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a couple of pillows and a
blanket.
About the Presenters:
Susanne Hallisey RN, BSN M.Ed. RYT
Susanne has 30 years of experience working as a registered nurse and has
worked as a school nurse at Pilgrim Area Collaborave (PAC) for the last nine
years. Susanne began her nursing career at Massachuses General Hospital and
later worked with students with special health care needs at Massachuses
Hospital School. In addion to her work at PAC, Susanne teaches yoga at Open
Doors Yoga studio in Duxbury and at Dragony Yoga Studio in Marsheld. She has
been a Registered Yoga Instructor for the last ve years. Susanne combines her
nursing skills and yoga training to help students achieve opmal health and
wellness.

Joanna Silverman, M.Ed., CCHP
Joanna is an educator, holisc health counselor and mother of 2 young children.
She currently works as a Senior Sta member for the Pilgrim Area Collaboraves
Extended Services Program where she oversees home based programs, and
provides professional development and consultaon to families and school
districts specically in the area of social skill development. She has over een
years of teaching experience with children ranging from infancy to 18 years of
age and has spent the last four years consulng to schools and families. She holds
an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Special Educaon and a Masters
degree in Early Childhood Development from Wheelock College, two
Massachuses teacher cercaons, and is a cered holisc health counselor.
In 2014 she completed the Social Thinking Clinical Training with Michelle Garcia
Winner. Joanna has worked with over 300 families as a parent consultant
supporng families in the areas of social development, behavior, toileng,
feeding, and sleep.

Deb Booth, M.Ed.
Deb has over 20 years of experience working with individuals with Ausm
Spectrum Disorders and similar learning challenges. She has worked in
residenal, private, Collaborave and public school sengs and has serviced
children and their families through early intervenon, home programming and
consultaon. Currently, Deb coordinates the Pilgrim Area Collaborave Extended
Services (PACES) Program, which contracts with local school districts to provide
direct home services to children, consultaon to schools and families,
assessments and evaluaons and professional development. She completed a
mentorship program at Michelle Garcia Winners Center for Social Thinking. Deb
also holds the posion of adjunct faculty at Northeastern University and
Bridgewater State University.

PACES
Families represent the most powerful and pervasive inuence that a child
will ever experience. (Journal of Early Intervenon, 21(1) 1997, Providing
individual supports to young children with ausm and their families)

PACES sta believe that it is important for parents become acvely involved
in educang their children and become empowered to both teach their
children new skills at home and to learn to respond to behavioral challenges
that may arise.

An array of support services are available to families through the PACES
program which are designed to equip parents with the skills needed to
eecvely support their children in the home and community seng. These
may include a home instrucon program for students, and/or specic training
and consultaon to parents/caregivers in the areas of communicaon,
behavioral regulaon, sensory supports, social skills, acvies of daily living
and community involvement. The ulmate goal of home services is to give
students the skills to learn in the home and community seng and to give
parents/caregivers the skills to facilitate this learning.
REGISTRATION
Pre-registraon is required. To register or for addional informaon
regarding registraon contact Debbie Crothers at
dcrothers@pilgrimac.org or by phone at 781-293-6111 x23.
Addional brochures are available ONLINE at
hp://www.pilgrimac.org

All workshops will be held at Pilgrim Academy, 42 Industrial Park Rd
(directly across from the RMV).

Coming in May!
Geng to know ME: Self-Advocacy and Disclosure
Im Special Too: Being the Sibling of a Special Child


Meeng the Challenge: Understanding, Prevenng, and
Responding Eecvely to Challenging Behavior
December 3, 2014 7:00-9:00
Having a child with challenging behavior can aect the enre
family. This interacve workshop will provide parents with a basis for
understanding the causes and funcons of their childs challenging
behaviors. Praccal strategies and pro-acve intervenons will be
discussed as parcipants learn new ways to prevent and respond to
challenging behaviors more eecvely.


Social Thinking Outside of School
December 10th 7:00-9:00
The world we live in is full of rules and expectaons that most of us
pick up on intuively. However, people who struggle with social
nuances or have a social cognive decit have diculty interpreng
and learning the dierent rules and expectaons in various sengs,
causing life-long challenges that impact their daily lives. During this
workshop we will idenfy the skills needed to navigate the social world
and explore ways to strengthen your childs understanding of social
expectaons to support a producve independent life beyond the
school seng.

This workshop was excellent! The presenters were engaging and
full of information. I learned so much in just 2 hours. I really
feel like I have some strategies I can use immediately!
~ Kerri, mother of 5 year old with ASD.

Lets Talk About Sex
January 14th 7:00-9:00
Talking about sexuality and inmacy is uncomfortable or dicult for
most parents, but when you have a child with social challenges it is
oen more complex. Most students with social challenges develop bio-
logically at a faster rate than they do socially and emoonally. During
this workshop we will discuss this sensive topic and provide concrete
and specic informaon on how to address sexuality and inmacy with
your child in a clear, direct way.


Children on the Spectrum: Understanding Ausm
Spectrum Disorder
February 4 & 11, 2015 7:00-9:00
This 2-part workshop will explore the unique characteriscs of individu-
als with Ausm Spectrum Disorder (ASD), including impairments in
communicaon, social skills, play skills, sensory processing and behav-
ioral regulaon. Basic intervenon strategies will be examined, with a
parcular emphasis on using Posive Behavior Supports, Total Commu-
nicaon approaches, and Sensory Integraon strategies.

Its Poy Time
March 11, 2015 7:00-9:00
Poy training any child is dicult, but poy training a child on the au-
sm spectrum or a child who has another developmental disability can
be parcularly trying. Children with ASD are oen resistant to changes,
and may have sensory and/or behavioral issues which make the transi-
on from diaper to toilet dicult. In addion, children with limited ex-
pressive language arent able to easily tell us when they need to go or
what they dont like about going. This workshop will provide parents/
caregivers strategies and ps to increase toileng success by teaching
toileng skills, developing schedules and rounes, and using visual sup-
ports.

Time for Bed
March 25, 2015 7:00-9:00
Sleep problems are among the most common problems parents face
with their children. Whether it is geng them to sleep in their own
bed, trouble falling or staying asleep, or even just cooperang with a
bedme roune many families struggle with bedme bales. Learn
how associaons, schedules, environment and behavior can be altered
to solve some of the most challenging sleep problems and help every-
one get a good nights sleep.


Raising a Healthy Eater
April 8, 2015 7:00-9:00
Is your child a "picky" eater? Does he or she eat only a handful of foods,
refusing all others? Eat from only one food group? Gag, tantrum, or be-
come anxious if you introduce new foods? If so, you may have a re-
sistant eater. Learn the possible causes and how to deal with the behav-
ior at home. Learn why "Don't play with your food!" and "Clean your
plate!" are not conducive to solving the problem.


Technology Troubles: Too much me online!
April 29, 2015 7:00-9:00
With children ages 8 to 18 spending on average 44.5 hours per week in
front of screens, parents are increasingly concerned that screen me is
robbing them of real world experiences. Video games are entertaining,
enjoyable and technology has become a part of everyday life in and out
of the classroom. When is it too much? Is an hour a day okay? Two?
Join us for an honest look at how technology is impacng our childrens
health, mood and social development.