Parkside Family Programs(Proprietor):

Through private practice, I provide Divorce & Separation Mediation, Child Protection Mediation and Student Appeals Mediation through the Dispute Resolution Office of the Attorney General and the Ministry of Education.  Parkside Family Programs has also provided Systematic Training for Effective Parenting since 1997 across Vancouver Island for parents and caregivers of children aged 3 & up.

Nanaimo Family Life Association: As an Child, Youth and Family Counsellor, this position involved providing intensive counselling, education and support to children, youth and their families."

Guy and Linda will be discussing with us mediation as an alternative dispute resolution process, & Advanced Parenting Techniques for parents & caregivers.  As well as courses that are offered one night per week and continue for 8 weeks.  The courses are offered on a sliding scale to ensure that everyone can afford the cost to attend.   

 

Linda Ogle has a Masters of Social Work and is near completion of a Certificate in Dispute Resolution.  Her work experience includes over 15 years as a social worker in child protection, adoption and foster care.  She was a foster parent for 10 years.  During that time she facilitated parenting groups for foster parents.  She also gave clinical workshops for foster parents and was the foster parent representative on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa-Carleton.  In addition she designed and facilitated parenting groups for adoptive parents of challenging children. For 2 years Linda was a part time therapist for the Family Service Centre of Ottawa-Carleton. 

 

After moving from Ottawa to Vancouver 7 years ago, she spent 3 years as a parent–teen mediator for the Purpose Society in New Westminster.  During this time she facilitated a parenting course for parents with Ministry involvement and another for parents struggling with their teenagers.  She also completed adoption assessments and provided adoption education in Surrey.  For the past 4 years Linda has been on the B.C. Child Protection Mediation Roster and does mediation work full time.

 

Her personal experience as a foster parent and as a mother raising 4 daughters (she is now a proud grandmother of 4 young grandchildren) also taught her the lifelong value of sharing parenting skills.

 

Her professional experience - she currently keeps in touch with the issues foster parents face through her mediation practice - has convinced her that facilitated educational groups can be invaluable to the work of foster parents and others who are parenting challenging children.

    

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With Cande & Herman in the second hour who are travelling the world in an ancient 1928 auto with wooden wheels and their children. For more information check out www.sparkyourdream.net for details about their experiences and book about the trip so far.