WORKSHOPS + EVENTS
Empower Yourself Through Learning
Throughout the year, Red River North CTS Inc. offers a variety of workshops and events designed to equip you with valuable skills and knowledge to support your well-being. Explore our upcoming offerings below, and don't forget to check out our list of trainings we can deliver on-site for your group or organization.
Psychoeducational Sessions
Through our public workshops and events, we're happy to bring our expertise directly to you. We are able to provide trainings on-site and virtually to suit the specific needs of your group or organization.
Costs are subject to change and will be revised July 1. Current rates are applicable July 1, 2024. Travel and accommodations, if required, are additional costs. Complete the form below to inquire about availability.
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This workshop encompasses a variety of disability specific areas including, brain-based behaviour basics, parenting the adolescent with FASD, generalized strategies and approaches and areas specific to raising adolescents: school challenges, social media, home, emotional regulation and building resiliency.
Note: Presentations can be adapted to include generalized information on Neurodevelopmental Disorders as well.
Length: 1 day
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: online or in-person
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $100 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $1250 + GST (capacity max 30)
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This workshop explores some of the realities that neurodivergent individuals experience in day-to-day life. Topics of this workshop include understanding neurodiversity, common strategies for assisting someone with a brain-difference, advocacy and supporting self-advocacy, finding identity as a neurodivergent person, vulnerabilities that neurodivergent populations may experience, and strategies surrounding shifting paradigms when supporting individuals with brain-differences.
Length: 1 day
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: Online or in-person
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $100 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $1250 + GST (capacity max 30)
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A look at attachment theory and raising children and adolescents with FASD. A certified Circle of Security facilitator will speak to parenting and attachment strategies, understanding behaviours as communicative, and how to repair when issues arise. (This content may also need to be broke down into 2 sessions, given the substantial amount of information.)
Note: Presentations can be adapted to include generalized information on Neurodevelopmental Disorders as well.
Length: 1 day
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: Online or in-person
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $100 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $1250 + GST (capacity max 30)
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An introduction into the world of relationships, sexuality, and sex when working with individuals with FASD. Topics and strategies focus on age and stage appropriate behaviors, relationships, vulnerabilities, online relationships and risks, dignity focused conversations on supporting adolescents and adults in building healthy and safe relationships.
Length: 2 days
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: Online or in-person
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $200 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $2500 + GST (capacity max 30)
*Breaking this workshop down into multiple modules is also an option, contact us for more information.
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This in-depth series narrows in on some of the more complex and less-discussed topics surrounding neurodevelopmental disabilities, sex, relationships and sexuality. Topics include using a dignity-promoting, neurodivergent lens while navigating puberty, masturbation, pornography, alternative types of intimate relationships including polyamory and ethical non-monogamy, kinks, fetishes, grooming, and sexualized violence, including sexual exploitation and sexual assault.
*Attendees are encouraged to have taken An Introduction to FASD, Relationships, Sex, and Sexuality prior to registering for this workshop.
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: Online or in-person
Fees:
OPTION 1
Length: 2 days
Attend as an individual: $200 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $2500 + GST (capacity max 30)
REGISTER FOR OPTION 1OPTION 2
Length: 5 week series of 2 hour sessions
Attend as an individual: $150 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $1750 + GST (capacity max 30)
REGISTER FOR OPTION 2
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This workshop allows parents, teachers and service providers to explore how to assist individuals with FASD or other Neurodevelopmental Disorders in navigating their brain-differences. This half-day workshop will provide opportunities for exploration around walking alongside neurodivergent individuals who are on a journey of understanding what it means to be neurodivergent and how to explain this to others.
Length: ½ day
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: Online or in-person
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $60 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $700 + GST (capacity max 30)
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A look at discussing consent and navigating relationships at different ages and stages, from toddlers to the golden years. The workshop will include strategies, interactive problem-solving of real-life scenarios, and ways to incorporate multiple methods to ensure that all individuals can understand consent and have opportunities for healthy ongoing relationships.
Length: ½ day
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: Online or in-person
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $60 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $700 + GST (capacity max 30)
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Transitions can be challenging for individuals who are neurodiverse, including body changes. This training is for parents, caregivers, teachers and service providers to assist children and youth to understand what is going on in their body during puberty, and what this means for them.
Length: ½ day
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: Online or in-person
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $60 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $700 + GST (capacity max 30)
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The Internationally certified Circle of Security-Parenting™ Program is used around the world with caregivers and focuses on helping caregivers to learn about children’s attachment needs and to also get to practice using the Circle to identify those attachment needs. In addition, when caregivers identify where on the Circle they struggle to meet their children’s needs, they can begin to work to address their children’s unmet needs more often on the Circle.
This is an 8-week series of 2-hour sessions as per the Internationally offered modules.
Length: 8 week series of 2-hour sessions
Suitable for: parents, caregivers
Offered: Online (1 facilitator) or in-person (2 facilitators)
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $225 + GST (minimum 10 to run, max 12)
Book for your organization: $5000 + GST (capacity max 15)
DATES TBA
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An in-depth look at the transition into adulthood with a focus on assessment, CLDS, inter-dependence programming, planning for the transition out of CFS/CDS, and application processes.
Length: ½ day
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: Online or in-person
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $60 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $700 + GST (capacity max 30)
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A rights and dignity focused look at the VPA and how this impacts our adult children and us as the caregivers of adults.
Length: ½ day
Suitable for: parents, caregivers, service providers
Offered: Online or in-person
Fees:
Attend as an individual: $60 + GST (minimum 10 to run)
Book for your organization: $700 + GST (capacity max 30)
DATES TBA
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A three-part series that includes empathy building, emotional literacy, and communication building through activities that are meant to be fun and include an educational component. Participate is encouraged to youth to share their thoughts and feelings, while also gently pushing them out of their comfort zone if appropriate.
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Nobody’s Perfect™ is a Canada-wide facilitated parenting program for parents of children from birth to age five. The program is designed to meet the needs of parents who are young, single, socially or geographically isolated, or who have low income or limited formal education offered in communities by facilitators to help support parents and young children.
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A series of sessions focused on building self awareness, mindfulness, and coping skills for the management of anger. Sessions include topics such as finding connections, building trust, diving deeper into learning about anger, communication styles and conflict, de-escalation, and building mindfulness skills for coping.