Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE)

JFS is excited to launch Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE), a group for parents and caregivers of children ages 3-17 with symptoms of anxiety. SPACE is a parent-based treatment, where the child is the client, but the parents attend a weekly in-person skills-based group to educate and empower themselves to support their child’s anxiety. SPACE was developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz of the Yale Child Study Center and is intended for parents of children who struggle with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, separation anxiety, phobias, OCD, and more. The group will focus on changing parent behaviors, rather than the child’s behaviors, to reduce accommodations and increase statements of support. While no diagnosis is required, we will complete a thorough screening of all interested families.

During this 7-week group, parents will:
• Gain a better understanding of the nature of anxiety
• Feel less alone in their experience
• Learn supportive responses to their child’s anxiety
• Break the vicious cycle of anxiety by stopping specific parental accommodations, allowing their children to learn how to self-regulate, rather than relying on parent(s)

More information on SPACE can be found at www.spacetreatment.net.

Please reach out to our Community Mental Health Liaison at amacdonald@jfshartford.org with questions.

Generously Sponsored By:

RBC Foundation – USA

Olga Sipolin Children’s Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee

McPhee Foundation

Free Bereavement Group

Please consider joining this group if you…

  • Would like to share your experience of grief and loss with others who can offer support

  • Are feeling intense grief after the recent or earlier loss of a loved one and you would like to seek understanding and assistance with managing your feelings
  • Are having difficulty or concerns about how to emotionally cope with the loss of your loved one
  • Are worried about the degree of emotional response or length of time that you are experiencing grief after your loss
  • Have concerns about how to manage your life situation after the loss of your loved one

Where:

Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford
333 Bloomfield Ave, Suite A
West Hartford, CT 06117

When:

Every Wednesday from 4:00-5:30pm

Who:

This group will be led by experienced Psychiatric APRN Theodora (Teddy) Sirota, PhD, APRN, CNL, PMHCNS-BC

Please reach out to our Community Mental Health Liaison at amacdonald@jfshartford.org with questions.