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Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
- Your legal rights during COVID-19 and Coronavirus Outbreak UPDATED Mar 27
- Explaining COVID-19 and Coronavirus to Children
- Fun and budget-friendly stay-at-home activities
- Tips for Creating a Learning Schedule at Home
- Sample Daily Learning Schedule
- Mental Health and Wellness Supports During COVID-19 (coming soon!)
- HB Alumni Network: Use Holland Bloorview’s new online networking platform to meet, connect with and share information with other clients and familie
- BLOOM’s blog on parenting children with disabilities: To subscribe to BLOOM’s monthly e-letter, go to the link and scroll down to the blue banner to input your e-mail
- BLOOM Facebook page
Webinars
Children’s Healthcare Canada
- #COVID Together - join other families on facebook to discuss COVID-19 (April 1)
- COVID-19 and the care of the child with chronic disease (April 2)
Be Strong Families (Also available in Spanish)
- Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development / Being a Great Parent is Part Natural and Part Learned (April 1)
- Concrete Support in Times of Need / Everybody Needs Help Sometimes (April 2)
- Social and Emotional Competence / Parents Need to Help Their Children Communicate (April 3)
Children’s Healthcare Canada & Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP)
Impacts and implications of COVID-19 for children in pain and their families (April 8)
Community Living Ontario
Webinar: Navigating Health Care for People with Developmental Disabilities During COVID-19
Caregiver and Family Wellness
Toronto Rehab and Peter Munk Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
Free live online education via ZOOM
Eating well (April 1); Exercise safely (April 2): Mental wellness and COVID-19 (April 6)
Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre
Fit Friday (March 27 to April 17)
Free online physical activity sessions for people with developmental disabilities.
Mindfulness Mondays (March 23 to April 13)
Free online mindfulness sessions for people in the developmental disability community and their caregivers, regardless of age or disability
Assessment: Getting Help for Mental Health Concerns (April 7)*Not COVID-19 related
Online discussion about the role of families in supporting adults with developmental disabilities to understand and navigate mental health concerns.
YMCA
Free online daily workouts
Recreational Respite
Now offering virtual interactive services
Good Things In Life
"End Loneliness" Challenge
Zero to Three
The Importance of Self-Care during the COVID-19 Outbreak:
Ontario COVID-19 website (available in other languages)
Information on how to stay safe during this period
Supporting your child and young adult
Kids Health
Coronavirus questions and answers for parents
#COVIBOOK
How to talk to kids about Coronavirus (available in other languages including Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Greek, Chinese)
Health Care Access Research and Developmental Disabilities (HCARDD)
Easy to understand COVID-19 resources and supports for people with developmental disabilities and their families
Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP)
Digital Pain Management Resources for Children and Youth
Other
P4P Planning Network
Introduction to the RDSP (April 23) *Not COVID-19 related
Developmental Services Ontario
COVID-19 updates from your area DSO
The Ontario Caregiver Association
Ontario caregiver helpline for a one-stop resource for information and support
Toronto Police Services
Vulnerable Person Registry now available: allows vulnerable people and their caregivers to share information with police before an emergency or police call takes place.
This e-letter belongs to a set of specialized resources for the COVID-19 and Coronavirus outbreak period. If you are looking for other family resources that have to do with childhood disability, please visitwww.hollandbloorview.ca/resourcecentre.
Holland Bloorview’s Grocery Foundation Family Resource Centre is a place where you can find information and resources on childhood disability that are helpful to you and your family. We have information on: respite, recreation, housing, funding, education, parenting and more. All Holland Bloorview workshops and events are listed on www.hollandbloorview.ca/familyevents Questions? Please e-mail resourcecentre@hollandbloorview.ca
