Based upon nationally acclaimed curriculum called, Parenting a Second Time Around (PASTA) and utilizing resources from NTDC.

Have you recently adopted a related child?

Are you raising a child that is related to you?

Are you thinking about becoming a parent for someone related to you?

Cornell Cooperative Extension – Orange County has created an online, self-paced, 8 module program to help parents/caregivers learn about:

• themselves and the feelings that come with the new role
• the youth’s feelings about this new situation and how to best support them
• trauma, grief and loss that the child has experienced
• trauma informed parenting – how to best work with youth that have experienced trauma
• how the biological parent feels and how to navigate that relationship and guide the child in these relationships
• parenting techniques for youth up to age 10
• parenting a teen
• understanding high risk behaviors in youth

In addition to the program content you will:

• Gain support from others in this situation
• Be given access to take a private, parenting self-assessment that will give you a full report on how you are doing
• Learn many self-care practices
• Have lifetime access to many supportive resources

You can participate in this program, from the comfort of your home at any time of day.

Each module takes about 60 – 90 minutes each week to complete, with up to 30 minutes of suggested journaling and brief homework assignments to complete.