Thrive With Us
How do families with special needs kiddos build resilience and move from surviving to thriving? Pause provides different support and resources for families to build resilience and thrive within their family. This seems like a large task, and to be honest - it is. But, Pause doesn’t do it alone. It takes dedicated, consistent relationships with community partners.
In 2017, Pause began a partnership with ThrivePointe Counseling. ThrivePointe Counseling empowers people to thrive by giving them and helping them get remarkable connection and clear direction. Our partnership started with inspiring brainstorms about ways we could make a difference together. Those conversations were the start of our highly attended event - Thrive Night.
Thrive Night is a 3 hour connection event for Pause caregivers. The evening is deliberately planned with resilience building activities and pathways to connect with other caregivers in an effort to grow their natural support system. Participants are seated intentionally with other caregivers sharing a similar background story, area of residence or those who have children with a similar diagnosis.
Each session is themed based on caregiver feedback and connects back to topics related to raising children with disabilities, relationships, self-care or other areas caregivers have communicated are tricky. Along with respite, caregivers get to enjoy dinner, hilarious fun (#WhatHappensAtThriveStaysAtThrive) and breakout sessions facilitated by ThrivePointe therapists. ThrivePointe co-owner, Stephanie Shell, had this to share: “Working together with Pause has given ThrivePointe a privileged opportunity to get to know so many special needs families and learn from them about their unique struggles and their amazing capacity for persistence and resilience. Through each conversation their empathy and awareness of everyday advocacy opportunities grows.”
It’s been over a year since we have been able to offer this event due to restrictions and regulations, but guess what friends?! After 15 months we are SO excited to announce that Thrive Night will be BACK on October 8th! We cannot be more thrilled to bring this connection event back to our Pause caregivers.
This event would not be possible without the support of ThrivePointe Counseling. The dedicated and consistent relationships with ThrivePointe therapists have helped caregivers feel more supported with 98% of caregivers leaving these events with an increased sense of hope.
You too can be a part of building hope for these families! Corporate and small business opportunities are available to sponsor or serve dinner on October 8th. For more information on how you can make a difference email jaclin.baker@pauseforparents.org.
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This is CAN DO. This is COMMUNITY. This is YOUR SUPPORT.
