WORKSHOPS FOR CAREGIVERS & FAMILIES
Backpack Healthcare hosts free live workshops for the parents, grandparents, and guardians raising Marland's kids. Every session is led by a Backpack clinician and built around the questions caregivers actually bring us: what to say, when to worry, and how to keep going yourself.
We know your evenings are already full. Sessions run about an hour on Zoom, your camera stays off unless you want it on, and you never need to be a Backpack patient to join. Come to the ones that fit your family and skip the rest.
Caregiver Workshops
A Peaceful Home: Simple Ways to Create Safety & Structure
Creating a safe home is about more than physical safety. Learn practical ways to build routines, expectations, emotional safety, and structure that help children feel secure and supported.
Helping Kids Through Big Changes Without Meltdowns
Changes in school, family, routines, or relationships can be difficult for children and teens. Learn ways to prepare kids for change, respond to big emotions, and help them feel more confident when life feels uncertain.
Helping Your Child Thrive: Everyday Tools That Make a Difference
Supporting your child does not always require a big intervention. Explore everyday strategies caregivers can use to strengthen communication, emotional well-being, confidence, and healthy development.
Talking So Kids Listen: Building Emotional Safety at Home
What do you say when emotions are running high? Learn how to help children express what they are feeling, validate emotions, and create conversations where kids feel heard and supported.
Calm Kids, Calm Home: Stress and Coping Tools for the Whole Family
Stress affects both children and caregivers. Learn simple coping strategies families can practice together to manage strong emotions, reduce tension, and recover more quickly from stressful moments.
Raising Digitally Smart Kids: What to Allow, What to Limit
Social media, gaming, group chats, and constant online access can be difficult for families to navigate. Learn how to set realistic technology boundaries, talk about online risks, and encourage healthier digital habits.
Understanding Trauma: How to Support a Child Who’s Struggling
Trauma can affect a child’s emotions, behavior, relationships, and ability to feel safe. Learn how trauma may show up at home and what caregivers can do to respond with support, consistency, and understanding.
Refilling Your Cup: Self-Care for Busy Caregivers
Caring for everyone else can leave very little time for you. Explore realistic ways to protect your own emotional health, manage stress, and make self-care possible even when life is busy.
Keeping Kids Safe: What Every Caregiver Should Know
Talking about suicide can feel frightening, but knowing what to look for and how to respond matters. Learn common warning signs, how to start a supportive conversation, and when to seek immediate help.
You’re Not Alone: Building Your Village as a Caregiver
Caregiving was never meant to happen alone. Learn how to identify supportive people and resources, strengthen your support network, and ask for help before stress becomes overwhelming.
Loving Limits: Setting Boundaries That Actually Work
Healthy boundaries help children feel safe, understand expectations, and develop responsibility. Learn how to set clear limits, stay consistent, and respond to pushback without turning every boundary into a battle.
Parenting Your Way: Honoring Culture While Raising Confident Kids
Every family brings its own values, traditions, and experiences into parenting. Explore how culture can shape parenting styles and how caregivers can balance family values with their child’s growing independence and identity.
Recognizing Depression: Signs, Support, and What to Do Next
Depression in children and teens does not always look like sadness. Learn common warning signs, what changes caregivers should pay attention to, how to start the conversation, and when professional support may be needed.
Raising Resilient Youth: Simple Skills for Big Challenges
Resilience does not mean children never struggle. Learn ways to help children recover from setbacks, manage difficult emotions, build confidence, and develop problem-solving skills.
Staying Calm in Tough Moments: Communication Skills for Caregivers
Hard conversations can quickly become arguments when emotions take over. Learn practical listening and communication skills that can help lower tension, keep conversations productive, and maintain connection.
Helping Youth Heal After Loss
Children and teens experience grief in many different ways. Learn how grief may appear at different ages, how to talk about loss, and ways caregivers can support healing without rushing the process.
Helping Your Child Build Healthy Friendships and Handle the Toxic Ones
Friendships can have a powerful impact on a child’s confidence and emotional well-being. Learn how to recognize healthy and unhealthy relationship patterns, support appropriate boundaries, and help kids navigate friendship challenges.
Who Am I? Supporting Teens Through Identity & Self-Discovery
Adolescence is a time of questioning, experimenting, and discovering who you are. Learn how caregivers can remain connected, encourage healthy self-expression, and support teens as they build confidence and a stronger sense of self.
Repairing Parent-Child Relationships: Starting Fresh at Any Age
Every family goes through difficult seasons, and relationships can be repaired. Learn practical ways to rebuild trust, improve connection, take responsibility when needed, and begin creating healthier patterns with your child.
Getting the Right Help: A Caregiver’s Guide to Mental Health Support
Knowing your child needs support is often easier than knowing where to start. Learn about different types of mental health services, when additional support may be appropriate, and how caregivers can take the first steps toward getting help.
Cyber-Safe Kids: How to Prevent Bullying and Keep Children Protected Online
Cyberbullying can follow children home and make it difficult to feel safe even away from school. Learn warning signs, prevention strategies, how to respond when something happens online, and ways to help children protect themselves digitally.
Two Homes, One Heart: Co-Parenting Without Chaos
Separation and divorce can be challenging for the entire family, but children benefit when caregivers keep their needs at the center. Learn strategies for communication, consistency between households, managing conflict, and helping children adjust to life across two homes.
