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Featured book 

Break free from addiction with The Fix Your Addiction Handbook by Faust Ruggiero, M.S. This powerful guide provides an actionable path to recovery, helping you understand addiction, its impact, and how to reclaim your life. Based on 30+ years of counseling experience, this book offers practical steps for lasting change.

Full Episode: Families Get Addicted Too: How We Got Here and How to Break Free with Faust Ruggiero​
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Little Warriors - Prevention, healing & education 

Prevent it! Free workshop ​

Teaches adults how to help prevent child sexual abuse using the following steps: Study, Talk, Observe and Prepare for action. 

The interactive workshop gives adults the tools they need to help prevent child sexual abuse and how to respond to it. Group workshops are offered in-person or via Zoom.

Be Brave Bridge Intensive  Programs

For children, teens and caregivers - Provide timely, virtual mental health support and psychoeducation to those directly affected by trauma.

​The online module-based programs offer similar evidence-based, specialized trauma supports that are provided at the Be Brave Ranch.

Bridge community online programs

Available to the general public to educate children and youth ages 8-17 on several topics to help them navigate everyday life. 

​The online, self-directed, module-based programs provide information, resources, tools and strategies in an interactive, age-appropriate way. ​ - ​Developed in partnership with Safe Places.

Father & Daughter REconnection training

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 The National Parents Organization reports that nearly 13 million parents in the United States face some form of parental alienation, highlighting the widespread nature of this issue.

Jana Herde's expert coaching provides a compassionate approach to reconnection training aimed at rebuilding these broken bonds. Her methods are grounded in evidence-based practices that focus on emotional healing, effective communication, and relationship restoration. Research from the American Journal of Family Therapy supports the efficacy of structured coaching interventions in improving parent-child relationships affected by alienation.​

Join Jana's webinars for a Free Q & A session 
For help bridging the gap with your daughter:
​Dad Reconnection Coaching​

ALBERTA FAMILY WELLNESS initiative

The Brain Story Certification
​Course:

Transform your understanding of brain development with this free, self-paced online course. Learn how experiences shape our brains and influence lifelong health.

By supporting children and families at the right time, we can build healthier lives and stronger communities, reducing the risk of mental health issues, including addiction. ​- AFWI

The resilience Scale
​Masterclass

​Resilience is the ability to adapt and remain healthy in the face of adversity. The three hour interactive  Masterclass explores three learning objectives:

Introducing the Resilience Scale to assess individual resilience and track changes over time.

Using the Resilience Scale to enhance mental health services, improve referral pathways, and support organizational change management.

Community Resilience
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The third objective of the resilience scale;
​Alongside data from the Brain Story Certification Course, explore the Resilience Scale as a framework for building community resilience and implementing systems change.
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Welcome to fatherhood's Balancing ACT MasterClass

David Arrell is the author of Welcome To Fatherhood, he is a parenting Coach and Consultant with over 20 years of experience helping people grow & thrive in today’s complex landscape of overlapping career, partnership, and parenting challenges. Here is a link to his Master Class: Balancing Act: Navigating Work & Parenthood
Lectures to help you get through  
Gratitude as the 6th Love Language
​Build Those Bridges
​The Leader Of Vs A Leader In
​Shared Agreements & Baby Basics

For Visual Learners 
Dude, Hire a Doula
Dad Blues Busters Tips
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