This workshop will teach parents tools for making effective requests of their teens and adult children. We'll cover what assertiveness is and the challenges and benefits of being assertive, and we'll learn a new technique for assertiveness, as well as how to adjust your level of intensity to suit the situation.

We'll discuss what changes when your child becomes a legal adult, common hopes and fears for parents of struggling young adults, and how to focus on what you can control, such as learning about and supporting the Mental Health Recovery Model, learning about the positive parenting approach to young adult children, and responding effectively to problem behavior.

We'll discuss why it's so important for you to offer information or ideas in a way that your teen or young adult hears and considers, what is the Information & Lecture Trap, and effective information sharing.

It can be hard to keep our composure when our children seem to deliberately push our buttons. This workshop is for parents of children age 14 through adulthood and will cover what is self-control in parenting, why self-control is so important for parents, knowing our triggers for losing self-control, and self-control tips and techniques for ourselves and our children.

What does PA say about a child's ability to consent to their mental health treatment, under what circumstances does that change, and what are parents' rights and responsibilities? We'll cover Act 147, Act 65 of 2020, HIPAA, and more.

We'll discuss the potential benefits of holiday celebrations, how holidays and family gatherings can be challenging for your teen or young adult and/or yourself, and how to avoid potential problems at family and holiday gatherings.

We'll discuss escalation and how it happens, why parents need de-escalation techniques, and de-escalation techniques such as knowing your child's triggers for escalating agitation, avoiding power struggles, validating your child's feelings and needs, and more.

This workshop is for parents/caregivers of children ages 6–26 who have realized their child is having a problem(s) and have called a service provider and are waiting for services to start, or their adult child has called a provider and is waiting for services. We will discuss what it's been like since realizing your child needs help and ways to take care of yourself while you wait, how to care for and support your child while waiting, and ways to shorten your wait.