Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by the tornados in Oklahoma this week.  We hope the following links and resources are helpful. Tornado Resources –  2013  APA Help Center Managing Traumatic Stress: After the Tornadoes http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/tornadoes.aspx Tornadoes, Hurricanes, and Children http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/tornadoes-kids.aspx   APA Building Your Resilience http://www.apapracticecentral.org/outreach/building-resilience.aspx   Red Cross Recovering Emotionally http://www.redcross.org/find-help/disaster-recovery/recovering-emotionally [...]

The Parent Child Center will be closed tonight. Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by today’s weather.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those in Boston. Below you find several links to information on talking to children about the incident and the images available through media. Boston specific - PBS Parent’s – Talk to kids about scary Mister Rogers on scary news: http://www.pbs.org/parents/rogers/special/scarynews.html Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, VP of Research and Education at Sesame Workshop on how to [...]

An update on the charitable tax deduction from The Chronicle Of Philanthropy: Obama Plan Would Spare Charitable Deduction December 18, 2012, 6:00 pm By Doug Donovan Nonprofits seeking to protect charitable deductions may have won at least one victory: President Obama’s budget proposal given to Republicans on Monday appeared to single out the charitable deduction [...]

Our hearts and thoughts go out to those impacted by the tragedy in Connecticut.  As often is the case following tragedies children will see horrific images on television, through social media and hear conversations from adults and other children about the tragedy.  We will be updating this page with resources for parents and children on how to talk [...]