About ParentingCoach.ca:
ParentingCoach.ca is a project dedicated to advocate for effective parenting with a special focus on Internet era's effect on families and youth. Currently, this project is being sponsored by its Board of Founders and is supported by other special boards and affiliated organizations.
Our Mission:
To provide general coaching for parents and youth with high emphasis on how to become more productive and efficient in using the Internet era resources to their maximum potential and how to mitigate the Internet Era's harmful possibilities.
Our Goals:
Education: Book review on parenting guidance + Q & A with an expert
Our complimentary seminars provide you with a summary of leading books on parental guidance followed by a Q & A session with an expert.
Skill Building: workshops for youth, parents, or mix
Our workshops provide youth and parents with hands-on skills on a variety of topics.
Mental Health Awareness: educational material & clips for youth
Our material / clips will promote "rational thinking skills in Internet era" among youth and parents.
Mental Health Service Referrals: connecting parents and youth with life coaches or psychotherapists
We will connect parents and youth with coaching and psychotherapy providers.
Our complimentary seminars provide you with a summary of leading books on parental guidance followed by a Q & A session with an expert.
Skill Building: workshops for youth, parents, or mix
Our workshops provide youth and parents with hands-on skills on a variety of topics.
Mental Health Awareness: educational material & clips for youth
Our material / clips will promote "rational thinking skills in Internet era" among youth and parents.
Mental Health Service Referrals: connecting parents and youth with life coaches or psychotherapists
We will connect parents and youth with coaching and psychotherapy providers.
Our Boards and Affiliates
ParentingCoach.ca consists of Board of Founders, Board of Advisors, Parents Board, the Youth Board and Affiliated Organizations. These boards and affiliates are set up to help ParentingCoach.ca with identifying the community needs and producing richer material for our families.
For example, if we are going to produce material on "How to use your credit card responsibly as a teen?", we will be interested in diverse ideas from different angles such as parents, youth, a therapists, a financial adviser, a lawyer, a teacher, and affiliated relevant organizations.
Thanks to many available internet technologies, most of the work are done in virtual environments such as Twitter. This way, we eliminate the need for frequent meetings and save our member's time. When a topic is chosen for development, it is posted for brainstorming and board members & affiliated organizations are invited to share their ideas (if any) within a certain time frame on Twitter. The information collected will be included in the process and will result in a richer content for our families and youth.
For example, if we are going to produce material on "How to use your credit card responsibly as a teen?", we will be interested in diverse ideas from different angles such as parents, youth, a therapists, a financial adviser, a lawyer, a teacher, and affiliated relevant organizations.
Thanks to many available internet technologies, most of the work are done in virtual environments such as Twitter. This way, we eliminate the need for frequent meetings and save our member's time. When a topic is chosen for development, it is posted for brainstorming and board members & affiliated organizations are invited to share their ideas (if any) within a certain time frame on Twitter. The information collected will be included in the process and will result in a richer content for our families and youth.
Board of Founders
Hossein GhadakiHossein Ghadaki is a parent who has sought solutions for Internet era lifestyle's family challenges and has sponsored this project for that purpose.
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Hossein SaniHossein Abdollahi Sani is a registered psychotherapist in Ontario with outstanding psychiatry educational background who has been practicing psychotherapy for more than 12 years.
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Board of Advisors
Mohammad F. AzarMr. Azar is a certified special need teacher and an ESL (English as a Second Language) specialist with degrees from Allameh University (Iran), York University and Toronto University. His experience includes extensive trip around the world to attend international conferences on Transportation and Communication fields. He has studied the public education systems of European and Asian countries, has developed English language programs for different industries, has organized and mediated parenting workshops on academic and pedagogic fields, and has provided counseling services on learning difficulties and special education. Mr. Azar is fluent in English, French, Turkish, and Farsi. |
Todd SimkoverTodd Simkover has an M.A. in Critical Disability Studies from York University. Driven by his own lived experiences on the autism spectrum, he understands first-hand what the life challenges are. He is a strong advocate for creating greater acceptance of those with neurological differences and promotes a neurodiversity-based model of autism, that focuses on strengths and talents as opposed to deficits. In addition to his Autism Consulting role at Kerry’s Place Autism Services in Toronto, Todd is also an emerging entrepreneur through his business, Autism Self-Advocacy Services, which provides self-advocacy coaching services for adolescents and adults on the spectrum within Southern Ontario. Todd has a particular focus on post-secondary education and the labour market. He completed a Master’s thesis entitled “[Addressing] Barriers to rewarding work: Employment issues among people on the autism spectrum,” which is soon to be published in an upcoming book co-edited by Dr. Kevin Stoddart and Dr. Anne Fudge-Shormans. More details about Todd’s work can be found on his website: http://autismselfadvocacy.ca/
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Our Volunteer Coordinator
Under construction.
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