PEERS® Social Groups – West Vancouver

Group interventions offered at ABLE Developmental Clinic

PEERS® Social Groups - West Vancouver

Social Groups
(based on the PEERS® curriculum)

PEERS® is an evidence-based, social skills intervention program for motivated preteens, teens and young adults who are interested in learning ways to help them make and keep friends.  During each weekly group session, teens and young adults are taught important skills and are given the opportunity to practice these skills in session during social activities.  Parents and Social Coaches will be included in a chat time at the end of group session.

Information regarding the PEERS® program can be found at www.semel.ucla.edu/peers

WHO ARE THE GROUPS FOR:

  • Kids, teens, and young adults who are interested in learning how to make and maintain friendships, motivated and committed to participating in weekly group sessions

KIDS WILL LEARN:

  • Listen and follow directions, ask for and use friends’ names, greet friends
  • Share and give turns, ask friends to play, join ongoing games
  • Keep cool during play, be a good sport, transition to new play activities
  • Ask and give help, use good volume control
  • Maintain good body boundaries

WHAT THE TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS WILL LEARN:

  • How to use appropriate conversation skills, find common interests by trading information, choose appropriate friends and use electronic communication
  • How to appropriately use humor and be a good sport
  • How to enter and exit conversations between peers
  • How to handle rejecting, teasing, and bullying
  • How to handle rumors and gossip
  • How to be a good host during get-togethers
  • How to handle arguments and disagreements and change a
    bad reputation

TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS COULD ALSO LEARN
(if interested):

  • How to find and choose good romantic partners, how to let someone know you like them and ask them out on a date, and appropriate dating etiquette

WHEN:

  • Weekly groups will run for 1 hour from September – June with an expectation that you are committed to the entire duration of the group.
  • Times to be determined.

WHERE:

  • ABLE Developmental Clinic at #110 – 585 16th Street in West Vancouver

COSTS:

  • The cost of each group session is $135/session
  • Autism Funding can be used for this program.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

  • Please contact Connie Ng, Board Certified Behavior Analyst and certified PEERS® provider at conniecho@gmail.com for an application and intake meeting to determine placement in a group.

Application Form:

e.g. 2014/03/12 for March 12, 2014
For example: mother, father, stepparent, grandparent, social worker, self-referral.
If other than English, what is your dominant language?
Preferred phone number(s); Identify home or mobile with H or M after the number.
Street Number, City, Province, Postal Code
Relationship, Language, Address, Phone; If different than first guardian.
Is there another email that you would like correspondence sent to as well (e.g., another parent)?
We are required to have consent from all legal guardians in order to provide services. If this is a concern, please let us know as soon as possible.
If sole guardianship has not been established then both parents are required to provide signed consent for services (eg. parents are separated or divorced). Please note that ABLE Clinic is not able to provide psychological services if guardianship is in active dispute and all parties do not consent to services.
Please put "N/A" or equivalent, if there is no relevant history for this item or the next.