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Who does The ECC serve?
The ECC helps children who have difficulty:
- managing their feelings of anger, explosiveness, impulsivity, worry, sadness, fear or anxiety
- managing their thinking or their thoughts
- making and keeping friends or who are isolated
- getting along with or listening to parents or other adults
- learning, developing or playing because of social, emotional or behavioral problems
- with communication and have had a formal diagnosis of Autism
- in specific areas of cognitive, language and social development and have had a formal diagnosis of Autism
Sometimes, the children The ECC serves have experienced:
- family difficulties due to various external contributing factors such as parental loss of employment, a parent with a mental health or addiction issue, poverty, unhealthy living conditions, poor health, discrimination and stigmatization;
- an inconsistent, unpredictable or chaotic life.
- abandonment, separation, extended illness or death
- physical, sexual or emotional abuse or neglect
- trauma from witnessing acts of family or community violence, or war
- medical issues which affect their sense of well being;
- alcohol or drug use
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