• ENVISAGE:

    ENabling VISions And Growing Expectations

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    ENVISAGE stands for Enabling Visions and Growing Expectations. 

     The program is a co-designed, evidence-based program for caregivers raising children with growing worries, developmental concerns or disability. 

    ENVISAGE was co-created by Australian and Canadian researchers, clinicians, and most importantly parents of children with developmental concerns and disabilities. 

     The program involves a series of five interactive workshops for caregivers in the early stages of parenting a child (or children) with disability or developmental concern. 

    ENVISAGE aims to empower caregivers like you to feel confident and competent in parenting your child or children with disability, developmental concerns or who are neurodiverse. 

     With ENVISAGE you can explore strengths-based ideas about health, wellbeing, and development, for your child and your whole family. Whatever your family looks like. We hope that you feel more connected with supports and other caregivers, and these connections continue after the program.  

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    Building on extensive feedback from parents in the ENVISAGE-Families program, we have now created and are testing ENVISAGE for Service Providers (E-SP). The goals of ENVISAGE-SP are to make ENVISAGE concepts easily accessible to SPs, and offer insights into how SPs can bring these ENVISAGE concepts to life in their clinical work with children with disabilities and their families. E-SP is currently being offered as a research program, with the hope that it can be made widely available once proof of concept has been established.

    Every family experiences parenting their children in a unique way. We hope that the several components of the ENVISAGE program may provide some guidance for those experiences – ideas and insights that will be useful for both families and the service providers with whom they engage. 

    For each Workshop, you will be able to:

    1. Work through the ENVISAGE - Families materials in your own time, which include watching short videos and working through activities.
    2. Join a facilitated discussion with other caregivers of children with a developmental concern or disability, and connect to share ideas and experiences (over 5 sessions, that are typically scheduled weekly but may also be delivered differently depending on the group you join)
    3. Access resources that can help strengthen your capacity to support your child and family

    For each Workshop, you will be able to:

    1. View the Workshop Outline 
    2. Watch the Workshop Videos 
    3. Complete the pre-session Activity Sheets
    4. Access the Zoom Video Conferencing 
    5. Review relevant readings, articles and web pages 
    6. Let us know what you think by providing feedback