Caregivers of children with special needs experience stress and difficulties coping with their daily life responsibility. The purpose of this project is to offer a free four-hour evidence-based educational course for caregivers of children with special needs in the community. This educational course for caregivers of children with special needs in the community. This educational course will focus on the caregiver and will provide evidence-based techniques to help the caregiver decrease their personal stress, and improve their coping skills so they can improve their occupational performance. Providing a training program for caregivers so they can be informed about effective coping strategies, practice those strategies, and begin to immediately use those strategies to help improve their overall well-being is the basis for this project.
