GROUPS
Corning Autism Parent
Support Group MOMS Club of Corning Dad's Group
Happy Face
Friends Group The Relatives as Parents
Peer Support Group Parents of
Multiples
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Welcome to the Groups Page . . . We
wanted an area where it would be easy for you to find out about the
local groups that meet at the PRC and find out more about them!
The Corning Autism Parent Support Group
was started May 2008, to raise public awareness about Autism. This
group meets every 4th Thursday of the month at 6pm in the United Way
Conference room on the second level of the Southeast Steuben County
Library. The children are welcome to play at the Nonnie Hood Parent
Resource Center during the parent/caregiver support group meeting
time. PRC staff, volunteers, and Arc of Steuben staff help to
provide supervision of the children's play.
The group assists parents in forming new relationships with other
parents who have children with Autism. This group has become very
informational for all who attend. They share their experiences,
frustrations, and successes. The children are also forming new
friends at the resource center. The parent group invites speakers to
attend also, depending on what the parents are interested in.
For more info visit:
http://home.stny.rr.com/zpage2b/START1.html
MOMS Club of Corning is a support
group for stay at home moms. We offer:
● Playgroup activities. During
warm weather, we meet at local parks and swimming pools. During the
winter, we meet at the PRC, a local gym, and members homes.
● Fieldtrips. Recent trips have been to the Farmland Animal
Park, Watkins Glen Farm Sanctuary, and the Ithaca Sciencenter.
● Monthly Meetings. We have monthly meetings on the 2nd Monday
of the month at the PRC where we discuss topics that are important
to moms. Previous topics
have included stretching your budget, speech development, and
healthy eating.
● Moms Night Out. For moms, we also have Moms Night Outs where
in the past we've eaten at Applebee's or went to the Jazz Festival
on Market Street.
● Book Club.
We welcome any mother living in the Bath / Corning / Horseheads
area who is home with their children to our group. If you're
interested, please contact us at:
momsclubofcorning@hotmail.com or call Heather at 377-5604.
Corning Dad's Group Online at YAHOO! Groups
The Nonnie Hood Parent Resource Center has created an online
discussion group for dads and father figures alike to use in
conjunction with our monthly "Dad's Group" at the PRC. It allows
fathers to discuss and post topics relative to life events that
occur on a daily basis, interesting parenting topics and those
topics also specific to fatherhood. This online discussion group is
available for use to members of the Dad's Group at the PRC and is
quite simple to access at anytime during the day.
Here are a few things that you need to do!
To access the Dad's group you need to have a YAHOO! E-mail account.
It is FREE of charge and you can sign up for one at
www.yahoo.com
Click on E-mail to join!
To join the Corning Dad's Group at YAHOO! Groups go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corningprcdads
The Corning Dad's group will come up and you'll see a button on the
right hand side that says "JOIN THE GROUP".
Click "JOIN THE GROUP" and it will ask you to log in with your
YAHOO! username and password if you aren't already logged in. Once
logged in it will take you to a details page about joining the
group. It includes your contact information, how you would like to
receive the "posts" that we post to the group, and what style you'd
like to received those messages in. Here you also can type a comment
to me requesting access to the group. Please provide your name at
least in the comments area so we are able to identify "who" you are.
Once you complete this page, click "JOIN" and your request will be
submitted. You'll be sent to a page that says "Membership Pending".
I'll try and check the group and email on a daily basis to approve
members, etc. After that, you can start posting to the group.
Once approved, you can access the page by logging in with your
YAHOO! ID and password. The controls to the left (in a blue box on
most systems) allow you to view messages, post, upload pictures,
search archives, etc. We are listed in under the "parenting" and
"dads" category if you'd really like to search!
Also any type of discussion or ideas for activities, questions, etc.
for the group specifically can also be sent to a separate email
address that I have created for the group. This email is
corningprcdads@yahoo.com
Thank you for your interest in building the Dad's Group at the PRC
and using these resources. Please feel free to contact me with any
questions and/or problems with your setup. You can email me at the
corningprcdads@yahoo.com
Happy Face Friends Group
The "Happy Face Friends" is a support groups for parents
who have a child with Down sydrome. The group provides socialization
for Down sydrome people of all ages. It offers parents to meet to
exchanges ideas for addressing concerns, share stories and
celebrations and get support form one another. The groups first of
the year meeting is January 13th from 6-8 in the United Way
Conference room.
Brooke C. Bennett
The Relatives as Parents
Peer Support Group
is a gathering of individuals and couples who are caring for a
relative child or children full-time in their home, due to the
biological parents’ inability to do so, for whatever reason.
Members of the group offer each other a listening ear, encouragement
and advice from someone who has “been there”. The group is growing
and always welcomes new participants. Meetings are facilitated by
Melissa Roloson, Family Visitation Coordinator at Nonnie Hood. She
can be contacted at (607)936-3837, or
mroloson@prcenter.org.
Parents of Multiples Group
is a group that welcomes families with
twins, triplets and the like to meet at the Center, play and discuss
a variety of topics each month. For more information, please
ask a staff member!
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