Parent Workshop Series
2025 – 2026 Parenting Workshops
NAP holds parenting workshops for community parents once a month during the school year.
Our providers host the workshop and often have guest speakers. We have covered a range of topics including anxiety, infant sleep, ADHD and nutrition.
Parenting Workshops
If you have an idea for a workshop, please send us a message at contactus@napeds.co
Come join us for a panel discussion led by Edward Plimpton, PhD from NAP to discuss the transition to middle school and these formative years. Dr. Plimpton will be joined by Leah Cantler, LICSW, Kathy Casale, Med, CAGS, School Psychologist at JFK Middle School and more to be announced. Registration is required.
Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Host: Edward Plimpton, PhD
To register: email BHCC@napeds.com
Parenthood and Adoption – POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2025
Come join us for a panel discussion led by Edward Plimpton, PhD from NAP. Parenting a child who has been adopted has its own challenges & rewards. In this panel discussion we will talk about some of the common challenges parents face; including open adoption and high needs children. The child’s questions about identity and much more.
Kathy Harrison has been a foster parent who has written about her experience in two books: Another Place at the Table: A Story of a Shattered Childhood Redeemed by Love and One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost and then Found.
Harold D Grotevant, PhD Emeritus Professor
and Director of the Rudd Adoption Research Program at the University of Massachusetts and author of Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections.
Nonie Bouthilette, Adoption Social Worker at the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2025 – POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2025
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Host: Edward Plimpton, PhD
Email BHCC@napeds.com to register