The Education Administration and MTA Haifa will open a series of meetings for parents in special education
A series of 10 knowledge sessions for parents will soon be opened for parents of special education students
The series of lectures was created as an additional pillar led by a municipal concept of a continuum of parental guidance services "Haifa Speaks Parenting" and following conversations with parents, and the desire to provide them with effective tools in various areas they face as parents of children with special needs.
This is a joint initiative of the Education Administration of the Haifa Municipality and MTA Haifa - a settlement support center that provides answers and services for children with special needs.
The series of lectures was built to suit parents of children on the communication continuum of elementary school age, parents of children with emotional and mental diagnosis and parents of children on the communication continuum of preschool age.
The meetings will be held once every two weeks in the evening on the "Zoom" app.
Aliza Karvan, head of the parents' unit at Matia Haifa:
The purpose of the meetings is to create a place of listening and inclusion without judgment. This is a framework that allows venting of feelings, discussion and thinking about various parenting issues.
The sessions will refer to different skills and approaches in psychology such as listening, validation, introspection, reflection.
Sigal Tzioni, a member of the city council, holds the education portfolio and is the chairman of Agad Arim for special education in the Haifa municipality., stated that the Haifa municipality operates the first parental administration in the country, which is a unique, ground-breaking model that provides a broad response to parent training in all fields. In addition, the municipality is working to develop complementary professional models for providing targeted answers to needs and fostering the relationship with parents, such as parent-teacher dialogue circles, mixed parent groups, disabilities and more.
The workshops will be led by professionals who take care of children with special needs, including: Aliza is a victim Head of the parents' unit, certified family therapist and specialist in the field of mental diagnoses, Maya Taper - Certified parent instructor and head of the field of physical disabilities and rare diseases, Lauren Newman - Head of ASD, Tammy Lieberman - movement therapist and certified parent instructor, and Ora Linhard - head of mental diagnoses.