Welcome to our new peer support group for parents of immigrant/multicultural and bilingual children!

IMPORTANT: Kindly sign up by sending a message to:
[email protected]

Come on board and discuss your concerns about parenting in Finland. We will work together to learn new strategies to help to cultivate deeper relationships with your children and to settle into these parenting roles comfortably.
Topics of discussion will be for example migration, Finnish child protection laws, navigating the school system, language skills and the barriers parents encounter in communication, discipline strategies, culture clash and parental wellbeing.

WHEN & WHERE:
Fridays at 11-12.30 on 29/11, 13/12, 10/1, 17/1 and 24/1
Tallipääty, MIITTI office
Lapinlahden Lähde
Lapinlahdenpolku 8,
00180 Helsinki
(How to find us: Enter through the main gate of Lapinlahden Lähde to the front courtyard, the MIITTI office is through the first door on your left hand-side.)

About the facilitator:
Felicity is a trained lawyer, a researcher and a child protection worker. She has worked with NGOs, communities, schools and government agencies to create strategies and programmes that enhance the well-being of families and children, and also litigated for child survivors of domestic violence in court cases. Her work with multicultural families, and being a parent to a multicultural child, inspired her to advocate for policies and support programmes to aid multicultural/bilingual/immigrant families to thrive in society and enjoy their journey. To advance these causes, she advocates for the establishment of peer support groups for parents of multicultural children, to encourage knowledge sharing, learning and communication. She believes that multiculturalism has an impact on family dynamics and parenting, and that is why society should pay attention to the well-being of the parents of these children.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions!