08/16/2025
Shift your perspective from one of frustration to connection with your kids.
In this supportive, live online class, you’ll learn the Collaborative Problem Solving® approach alongside fellow parents and caregivers. Discover how to understand the “why” behind your child’s behavior, reduce conflict, and strengthen your relationship. Walk away with practical tools that help you replace daily frustrations with meaningful connections—and a calmer, more cooperative home.
Let's prepare for challenges BEFORE they come our way!
📅 Join us for 6 Wednesdays, starting September 3: 5:00 pm- 6:30 pm ET /2:00pm - 3:30pm PT. Reserve your spot today: https://bit.ly/3O9UmcI
🤝 Meet Your Instructors:
Tyrena Lester, LICSW, is a Certified Trainer and Consultant at Think Kids. In this role, she trains and coaches various audiences across settings, including teachers, mental health professionals, counselors, and parents.
Tyrena’s professional experience has included providing clinical services through her community in many capacities. Her areas of expertise include working with children and families, victims of trauma, youth who have experienced exploitation, trauma-informed care, and training and consultation. In addition, she currently holds an adjunct professor position at Westfield State in the MSW program. She has over 10 years of experience teaching various college courses in western Massachusetts and is the co-author of Implementing Measurement-Based Care in a Youth Partial Hospital Setting: Leveraging Feedback for Sustainability. Tyrena holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s in Social Work. She is currently a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts.
Margaret Johnson, LMSW, spent many years working directly with youth, families, and staff in Oregon’s foster care and residential treatment settings. As part of a large-scale effort to implement CPS across Oregon’s systems of care, she created CPS-based pilot programs, facilitated community meetings, and built curricula supporting CPS growth, resulting in overseeing the Oregon CPS Project at Oregon Health & Science University. Margaret is passionate about teaching CPS to programs that serve families and youth involved in the child welfare and justice systems. She loves teaching CPS directly to parents. Margaret holds a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s Degree in both Psychology and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
