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Starlings Caregiver Supports are aimed at supporting family caregivers (parents, grandparents, kinship caregivers and other important family members) in providing the resources, tools, and relationships that young people need to navigate their experiences and heal from past hurts.
We offer a peer perspective. This means, all the professionals you engage with will have had lived experience with parental substance use challenges. These experiences vary and include: the stress of a parents mental health and substance use, parental criminalisation, family separation, parental loss to death, as well as the shame and worry that can come with these experiences.
Mon, Dec 08
Zoom
As part of our commitment to community-level knowledge mobilization, we want to make sure we return our findings to all of you, including the toolkit for caregivers/natural supports and the final report.
Multiple Dates
Tue, Dec 09
Zoom
Are you a youth 16+ or a caregiver to a youth growing up with parental addiction? Meet with peer mentor Emilee for 1:1 session to help navigate resources, experiences, and emotions.
Multiple Dates
Tue, Dec 09
Virtual
For us, the mentorship space isn’t just about support—it’s about empowerment, healing, and growth next to people who get it.
Order a Starling's Hope Kits for a youth who is growing up with parental substance use challenges-available for Alberta Families
Our Hope Kits are one way our peers can connect with young people who is growing up with the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use and decrease the stigma and shame they may feel.
Each hope kit is thoughtfully created and packed by peers with lived experience to support connection, validation, reflection, and healing for young people impacted by the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use. Not in Alberta? No worries, join our group sessions to learn more and if we have enough kits available, we can ship out of province, or, find other ways to connect with your youth.
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