Next Parent Course Starts 6/11/2024
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Women's Club 1st Wednesday Monthly
Men's Club 2nd Wednesday Monthly
Heart 4 Kids Coaching, Training & Therapy Center
145 W. Main Street, Suite 260
Tustin, CA 92780
This Support Club is for parents, dads, moms, caregivers, temporary guardians/foster families, boyfriends, girlfriends, grandparents, older siblings, nannies --- anyone involved in raising or caregiving a challenging child is welcome!
This Men's & Women's Support Club is for those interested in learning more about the Collaborative Problem Solving®(CPS) approach and for those who have previously taken an HBCC parenting class and are looking for more support.
Questions?
email info@hbcc.us
call 714.695.1057
SAVE THE DATES
WOMEN 2024
May 1st
June 5th
July 3rd
August 7th
September 4th
October 2nd
November 6th
December 4th
MEN 2024
April 10th
May 8th
June 12th
July 10th
August 14th
September 11th
October 9th
November 13th
December 11th
Support Club for the men is led by Kevin Opyrchal
Support Group for the women is led by Debra Ann Afarian
Let us know you are coming by email info@hbcc.us
There is a $10 donation suggested to help cover overhead of this on-going Support Club. You do NOT have to donate to attend - Scroll down for donation button
SUPPORT CLUB MODERATERS
Debra Ann Afarian leads the parent support club for the women. Debra Ann & her husband are the parents of two sons, one neurotypical born in 1995 and one neurodiverse born in 1994. The later son is now a ‘formerly challenging child’ who has maximized his potential through what they learned on their journey and participate in sharing their expertise, experience, strength and hope through HBCC.
Debra Ann is an expert working with parents because of her extensive personal training, yet mostly because she was a challenging child herself and the parent of a 2e bright & quirky child. As a parent, Debra Ann initially struggled to find her own self-regulation. As parents both her and her husband struggled to find solutions to help their child build skills, rather than use behavior modification for his neurodiversity.
Debra Ann learned early on by her own life experiences that rewards and consequences were never meant to teach complex teaching skills. She has had many hardships with mental health challenges, namely when she lost her father after to suicide due to alcoholism and undiagnosed depression.
Debra Ann's journey supports neurodiversity. She has been in one or another 12-step program or another since 1984 and is a friend of Dr. Bill W (AA) & Drs. Warren & Baker (Celebrate Recovery [CR]).
Debra Ann has done years of personal training in understanding the brain, trauma and has a robust interest in adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
Debra Ann has expressed that "God doesn't call the equipped, He equips the called" ~Ephesians 1:3 and she has been called!!!
Debra Ann now works to help teach parents to rethink conventional approaches that work solely to “gain compliance” and “extinguish behaviors” -- she looks through a lens of building skills. Debra Ann helps parents untangle dysregulation and break the cycle of power struggles in order to become the parents they always dreamed they could become, despite what gets in their way.
To accomplish this, Debra Ann helps parents drill deeper to preserve their adult/child relationship, teach lagging skills and durably solve the unsolved problems that have been chronically occurring through an evidence-based, trauma-informed, inclusive approach called, Collaborative Problem Solving®. She is passionate about sharing her experience, strength & hope to anyone who wants to listen to her story!
Kevin Opyrchal leads the parent support group for the Men. He is a 52-year-old man who is a single parent of a 14 year old son and a 20 year old daughter. Kevin has attended the CPS Parenting Workshop (three times!) at HBCC. He also participated in two of the HBCC Role-Play Enhancement Workshops. Kevin did a book study group with HBCC on Stuart Ablon, Ph.D. book, “Change-able" and joined the Greater Orange County CHADD Parent Support Group on many occasions and is on track to becoming CPS certified himself.
Kevin has found solutions to the communication problems he had been having with his son and is passionate to join with his community and share solutions. Kevin's relationship with his son, who is diagnosed with ADHD, has improved greatly and his communication improvements with his neurotypical daughter have been a side-benefit.
Additionally, Kevin has experience with the effects that drug addiction and alcoholism can have on relationships in the family as well, he sadly experienced these effects and the death of his former spouse, the mother of his children.
Kevin has many life experiences, and although no expert, he has been exposed to the many nuances of the LGBTQI+ community, including biological sex, gender identity and gender expression.
Kevin is another parent, like you, who is traversing this challenging responsibility called parenting. He wants to share his experiences and hope with you to find solutions for those who are finding challenges in their relationships with their children.
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Helping the Behaviorally Challenging Child (HBCC) is a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to enable children experiencing behavioral health challenges to lead more productive and inclusive lives. We work to transform these children's lives by deepening adults’ understanding of their behaviors, and promoting effective interventions that focus on connectedness, collaboration, and inclusion.
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