The PATHS program at Cindrich Elementary is an intensive multi collaborative partnership program supporting children ages 6 to 12 and their families in a community school setting.
Key Message:
We believe that children and families thrive best in a strengths-based environment. Families are at the centre of services and supports are collaborative, culturally sensitive, individualized and flexible. We are trauma-informed and attachment based.
What we do:
PATHS at Cindrich offers a school program, assessment and intensive supports for children with complex needs and their families. We provide a small, supported and structured classroom environment for our students; we also offer a range of child and family intervention programs. PATHS helps children and their families understand and manage the impacts of their complex needs.
Our team is multi-disciplinary and composed of a developmental pediatrician; psychiatrist; psychologist; child and family therapists; teachers; social workers; support workers; and other professionals providing consultations, assessments and interventions. Parents are an essential part of the team and are included in all aspects of planning, goal-setting and decision-making.
Depending on the specific needs of each child and family participating in the program, services at Centre may include:
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Extensive classroom support and adapted programs that foster resilience, self-regulation, recovery from trauma, and social-emotional development, as well as core academic and school-readiness skills.
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Clinical diagnostic assessment of complex developmental and behavioural conditions.
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Developmental pediatric care and follow-up.
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Individual and family therapy.
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Parent education.
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Advocacy and support in accessing other community resources and services.
You can expect:
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An understanding of each child’s and family’s strengths and needs, and how to effectively assist and support them.
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A school setting that is highly sensitive and responsive to children’s social and emotional needs and experiences of trauma.
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Support and a safe atmosphere where children and families can build trusting and therapeutic relationships.
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To learn how to recognize and effectively cope with and manage your child’s complex challenges.
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Interventions that help to strengthen families, increase resilience to adversity and stress, and promote healthy child development.
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Support and access to other community resources and services.
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