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At School Social Stories
Local Autism Support Groups
Parents Engaging Autism Quinte (PEAQ), an autism parent support group, meets once a month on the first Tuesday of the month (no meetings in January, July and August) at Kerry's Place, 189 Victoria Avenue, Belleville at 6:30 to 8 p.m. If you have questions or suggestions for autism topics that are important to you please go to our FaceBook account and post your suggestions so that we can invite appropriate autism professionals to speak at these meetings.
Autism parent support group meeting hosted by Mental Health Agency, Trenton and Military Family Resource Centre (MFRC) is on every second Thursday of the month (from September to June) from 6 to 7:30 pm. For more info, please contact Bryanna Best, Special Needs Inclusion Coordinator at 613 392 2811 ext 2076 or email at bryanna.b@trentonmfrc.ca
For info on Community Living Prince Edward County Parent Support group, contact Resource Consultants @ 613 476 6038
Central Hastings Autism Support Group meets in Madoc at the Recreation Centre. Contact Renee O’Hara, Family Resource & Support, 613-966-7413 or Tammy Kavanagh, Family Resource & Support, 613-332-3227
Parenting your child during Covid-19 pandemic
Monday, February 22, 2010
Kerry's Place autism resource centre in Belleville
It looks like the plan to set up an autism resource centre by Kerry's Place for Autism in Belleville is going ahead. According to the presentation made by a representative of Kerry's Place on Mon Feb.22 at the Quinte Autism Parent Network meeting at Family Space, a tentative date is set for March 26 to have an open house at the centre. The location is 189 Victoria Avenue (corner of Victoria and Chatham). The centre will offer various services including appointment-based autism consultations, play groups and social skills groups. More details on the new centre will be coming in the next few weeks. The centre hopes to start play groups for children in ages between 4 to 6 in the first week of April. The venue for the playgroups might be at the The Art Garden, 30 Bridge St.E., in downtown Belleville. Area parents can make intake applications at the Victoria Avenue location. Contact person: Laura Egerton at legerton@kerrysplace.org or 613 968 5554
In it for the long haul...
I created this blog with my sincere wish that those of you reading this will want to share your own stories, both good and bad, what worked for you and what didn't and together, we can make it easier for the next family beginning their own journey of discovery. By posting what you know, where you have recieved certain services, who you have talked to, whose expertise you trust, how you navigated the school education services and by responding to questions in the discussion thread, know that you have helped a family in need. So, parents, experts in the field, counsellors, teachers and everyone who has any information on resources available, please feel free to post on this blog.