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Mini Learning Sessions: Skill-Building Sessions at Starlings

Your presence helps us strengthen the ecosystem of support around young people.

Are you working with youth who are growing up with the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use? As a champion for youth, and perhaps even someone with lived experience, you understand how the systems many of us work in can let youth down: stigma, trauma, racism, and silence can get in the way of care. These sessions cut through that noise and ensure our compassion can be felt and experienced by youth. 

We bring you straight talk, social justice frameworks, and practical tools to support youth with respect, understanding, and real impact.

Pay-What-You-Can: Because Access Matters

What Can You Expect? 

  • 1:1 With Emilee
    1:1 With Emilee
    Multiple Dates
    Tue, Nov 18
    Nov 18, 2025, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. MST
    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.
  • Monthly Skill Building Session: Registration Required
    Monthly Skill Building Session: Registration Required
    Nov 19, 2025, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. MST
    Zoom
    Stigma is structural. So is healing. Join one or all of Starlings’ Skill Building Sessions to learn how to support youth growing up with the stress and stigma of a parent’s substance use.
  • National Child Day Event
    National Child Day Event
    Fri, Nov 21
    https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/V5
    Nov 21, 2025, 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. MST
    https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/V5
    By youth, for youth aged 14-30 who have grown up with or have supported a parent with mental health and substance use challenges.
  • 1:1 peer /caregiver support
    1:1 peer /caregiver support
    Multiple Dates
    Tue, Nov 25
    Nov 25, 2025, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. MST
    Virtual
    For us, the mentorship space isn’t just about support—it’s about empowerment, healing, and growth next to people who get it.
  • Respite
    Respite
    Multiple Dates
    Wed, Nov 26
    Virtual
    Nov 26, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. MST
    Virtual
    A peer group for 14+ year olds who are providing support and care to a parent with substance use challenges. Comes with Starlings Grief Workbook. Looking for groups for our younger peers? Check out our caregiver supports and our 1:1 sessions that young people can book with their trusted adult.
  • Caregiver Corner: Support a Young Person
    Caregiver Corner: Support a Young Person
    Multiple Dates
    Thu, Dec 11
    Dec 11, 2025, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. MST
    Zoom
    A space for adult caregivers who have a young person in their life who is affected by the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use (addiction) to learn about our resources and supports, while asking questions in a small peer community.
  • Starlings Monthly Skill Building Sessions: Journey through TIC to Rights to Research to Hope
    Starlings Monthly Skill Building Sessions: Journey through TIC to Rights to Research to Hope
    Jan 08, 2026, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. MST
    Zoom
    We Support YOU to Best Support Youth
  • Peer Empowerment Mentorship Program-Fall 2025
    Peer Empowerment Mentorship Program-Fall 2025
    Sept 17, 2025
    Virtual program
    An empowering program where lived experience, leadership, and storytelling intersect to cultivate profound transformation and healing within peers affected by the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use
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