Please circle the days of each week you would like your child to come to the program, include the hours below . Tear off the sheet below and return to Bridges no later than May 15th to guarantee a space in the weeks of your choice. You will receive a package confirming your child’s participation in early June. Childs Name ________________________________________________ Contact Name _______________________________________________ Child’s grade Fall 2015 ________ Phone Number __________________ Contact e-mail ______________________________________________ The program runs from 9:00am-4:00 pm however support is available from 7:00 am— 6:00 pm for children requiring work related care. Please indicate the hours you anticipate your child attending., ie. 8:00-5:00 ______________________ Dates Themes for Grades 1-5 Themes for Grades 6-10 Week 1 Space the Final Frontier Space the Final Frontier June 29-July 3 M T W TH F M T W TH F Week 2 Absolute Adventure Absolute Adventure July 6-10 M T W TH F M T W TH F Week 3 Mad Science Mad Science July 13-17 M T W TH F M T W TH F Week 4 Super Flex Bridges Comic Con July 20-24 M T W TH F M T W TH F Week 5 Social Detective Week Super Spy and CSI July 27-31 M T W TH F M T W TH F Week 6 August 3-7 Seusstastic Going Gamer M T W TH F M T W TH F All About You All About You M T W TH F M T W TH F Week 8 August 17-21 All Around the World All Around the World M T W TH F M T W TH F Week 9 August 24– August 28 Ready Set Back to School Ready Set Back to School M T W TH F M T W TH F Week 7 August 10-14 2015 ULTIMATE SUMMER PROGRAM Address 207 12B Street N. Lethbridge, AB Phone 587-425-4211 or E-mail [email protected] www.bridgesconsulting.ca Once again Bridges Consulting is happy to offer an ABA based Social Skills Summer Program . This program is geared to provide a special place where your child can enjoy a fun summer experience while improving his or her social skills through carefully developed programming . This program creates a structured social environment to improve your child’s social awareness and his or her interaction with peers. Most importantly this program can help to empower children to initiate and maintain positive relationships with others. Why Choose the Bridges Social Sills Program   Bridges Summer Social Skills Program provides more frequent and more intensive social skills training compared to traditional summer programs.  The Bridges Program, offers children the opportunity participate with typical peers, in order to facilitate generalization of the skills the children are working towards.  Due to the camp's low participant to staff ratio, we also have the flexibility to adjust our social skills curriculum to meet the ongoing and changing needs of the children in the program.  Goals and objectives are individualized, social skills are taught in the environment and context where they are used.  It is an excellent opportunity for learning, fun, and friendshipmaking Special Activities The daily schedule includes a series activities built around a weekly theme that also promote skills in such target areas such as conversation, non verbal communication, perspective taking. Through organized games and recreational activities, arts and crafts activities, role playing, lunch, snack, supervised play activities we are able to promote increased social skill practice. Children will earn tokens as reinforcment for successful interactions and making good choices and will be able to exchange tokens for prizes at the reward store. This year, for our older youth we will adding an increased focus on life skills such as cooking, organizing, planning, through such activites as community volunteering, gardening and grocery shopping. What Skills Will be Targeted In addition to a program full of age appropriate games and activities, Bridges will incorporate activities designed to develop skills in the following areas:  Making friends (eye contact, conversational skills)  Perspective taking, taking another person’s point of view, predicting feelings  Communicating feelings  Recognizing “triggers” & solving problems  Learning to calm down & manage anger ie. self regulation  Anticipating consequences of one’s actions  Verbal and non verbal communication  Working in groups and being flexible  How to interact appropriately with others in a variety of situations  Understand the importance of expectations and rules  How to better comply with limits set  How to follow rules for groups, classroom activities, sports, and other social situations Basic sports skills, good sportsmanship, cooperation, teamwork Opportunities for personal creativity and most importantly to learn to make friends and have FUN. Other Various special activities, may include the following: swimming, spray park, hiking in the river bottom, rock climbing, bowling, among others. Other Important Information  There is a $5.00 a day ACTIVITY FEE for summer programs. Siblings or Master Players are $7.00 a day. Payments are due the 1st of the month, for services expected in that month.  Parents can contact Bridges directly for more information or contact their FSCD Case Worker to find out if they qualify for support to attend the programs.  A Parent Seminar is held during the summer to provide parents the opportunity to understand better the strategies and approaches we are using to improve their child’s skills.