Parent Cooperative Community

10/11/2026

PCC Ambassadors connecting with families and bringing a variety of resources at the
Community Recource Fair in Sacramento 💚🙌💜🙌💙

10/07/2026

Halloween is a lot to ask of a child whose nervous system has good reason to take threat seriously. Masks, surprises, sensory overload, a schedule turned upside down, and a cultural theme built around fear, all in one evening.

You do not have to skip it. Name what actually loads the night for your child. Sensory input, unpredictability, covered faces, themes of loss. Usually one or two elements are doing most of the damage. Change those. Keep the rest.

Costumes at home. A smaller loop with familiar houses. An early night. An alternative event. Any of these is still a real celebration.

10/07/2026

10/07/2026

09/25/2026

Martha Nix Wade founder “A Quarter Blue”.
Crisis and Behavior Management, reframing challenging behaviors not as defiance but communication rooted in survival…
Amazing speaker at the CSFPA! 💙

09/25/2026

PCC attends the CFSPA Annual Training 💚

09/23/2026

For adoptive and foster families, homework battles are rarely about the homework. A child who held it together through six hours of school comes home with nothing left, and the folder in the backpack asks for twenty more minutes of exactly the resource that ran out at lunch.

A routine that works accounts for depletion. Build a real landing window before starting. Pick a spot near you, not tucked away. Decide who the calm adult on duty is. Keep the same sequence most days. End with something they enjoy.

Regulation first, instruction second.