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My Tween and Me is a parenting program for families with children aged 7-12 years.

THIS IS A SPECIAL TRAINING FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE PROVIDERS WORKING IN A LICENSED FACILITY. ORGANIZATIONS REQUIRING STAFF REPLACEMENT FOR TRAINING PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE $100 (BACKFILL). 

Learn new facilitation skills to engage both parents and their tweens in our innovative curriculum that goes beyond parent education to promote strong family relationships and positive youth development for children aged 7-12 as they move through the critical transition from childhood to adolescence. 

Our two and a half day newly revised Leader Training is designed to provide professionals with practical strategies and techniques that are flexible and adaptive in promoting positive youth development for tweens as they transition into adolescence and early adulthood. Becoming a My Tween and Me Leader means learning how to help parents:

• Strengthen their pre-teen’s self confidence, esteem and worth
• Positively influence their pre-teen’s choices, values and goals
• Support their tweens in making healthy decisions 

The training centers around five core topics:

1. Healthy development of children age 7 – 12
2. Life at school as a pre-teen
3. Building strong family relationships
4. Encouraging strong peer relationships
5. Exploring today’s pre-teen world and building community

Training Details

• Light breakfasts provided 
• Lunch provided on April 22 and 23rd, but not on April 24th
• If you have any dietary restrictions, please contact Maria at mtm@bccf.ca 
• Leader Guide included with everything required to run a program 

Dates and Times

Please note that on Friday, April 24th the training is from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. On April 22nd and 23rd it will go from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Prerequisite 

This is a special subsidized training offered in partnership with YMCA CCRR. To be eligible to attend, you must be a school-age child care provider currently working in a licensed facility.

About the Facilitator 

Kerry Watts, Project Lead for the Revised My Tween and Me Program, has spent over 20 years working with children, families and communities in a variety of roles. Kerry is passionate about building community and working together to support parents from preconception through to adolescence. She lives on the Sunshine Coast with her husband, three children, and an odd assortment of pets.

Participant Testimonials 

• “Great activity ideas”
• “Relevant information, interesting and needed for this age group”
• “This training will help with my day to day work by providing a new lens for the tween years and views”
• “[Provides] strategies to approach uncomfortable topics with parents and tweens”
• “Easy, straight forward lesson plans that are effective”
• “I learned additional information surrounding tween cognitive, social-emotional, psychological and physiological changes which will benefit me in my line of work”
   

If you have any questions, please email mtm@bccf.ca or call 604-678-8884 ext. 101. 

Please note that this training is not guaranteed to run. We need a minimum number of people enrolled in order to be able to run it.