North Eastern Ontario Family and Children’s Services (NEOFACS) is proud to host a keynote presentation by Lisa Waldon on the topic of: Giving Back: Sharing our challenges and how our family approached them, on Thursday, May 9, 2019, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.

Lisa Waldon is a mother of two children that live with learning challenges (high-functioning autism, ADHD, ADD, anxiety, audio processing and sensory challenges). For years she felt alone and wished for tips and tricks to ease her children’s challenges.

NEOFACS is excited to bring this engaging speaker to our communities as part of our Children’s Mental Health Week activities. We hope you join us to hear Lisa Waldon’s powerful message of the learning challenges her family faced and how they approached them.

Live presentation from our Head Office in Timmins, located at 707 Ross Avenue East. Community members outside of the Timmins area are welcome to view this presentation via live broadcast from our office locations in New Liskeard, Englehart, Kirkland Lake, Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Kapuskasing and Hearst.

This event is free but spaces are limited, so registration is required for all sites. Register Now!

NEOFACS is a proud member of the North Eastern Ontario Mental Health Week Committee (NEOMHWC), promoting the Five Ways of Well-Being campaign during Mental Health Week and Children’s Mental Health Week, taking place May 6 to 12, 2019. We encourage you to engage with this campaign online using the hashtags #MHW2019 and #5Ways.

Learn more about our Children's Mental Health Week activities at https://www.neofacs.org/cmhw2019.

Lisa Waldon Bio:

My name is Lisa Waldon and I am a mother of two children that live with learning challenges (high functioning Autism, ADHD, ADD, Anxiety, Audio processing and sensory challenges).

For years I felt alone and wished for tips and tricks to ease my children’s challenges. I wanted to know that I wasn’t alone. I read many books, watched many Youtube videos, movies, documentaries and talked to many professionals. I found that from all my watching, reading and listening I did get a little something from each effort. I like to refer to them as “Golden Nuggets”.

Golden Nuggets are those little things that worked for our family.

My children are now 9 and 16 years old and I feel like I’m at the point in my life where we are no longer in survival mode. I feel that it’s time for me to share and give back. I would love to share with you our challenges and how we approached them….and maybe…just maybe you will walk away with a Golden Nugget.

 

View and download the event flyer:
CMHW Lisa Walson Keynote Presentation Flyer - pdf