Our Services
We offer in-home and community-based parent coaching using trauma-informed practices and neurobiology education. Services include hands-on support for caregivers to understand their child’s stress responses, behavior, and skill development; coaching during real daily routines; and teaching practical tools to improve family functioning. Support is provided using a trauma-informed lens and the evidence-based Collaborative Problem Solving® (CPS) parent curriculum developed at Massachusetts General Hospital, delivered with direct supervision from certified trainers. Families receive individualized strategies, resource navigation support, visual tools, and skill-building supports to reduce conflict, increase regulation, build self advocacy skills and strengthen relationships.
Our services improve child and family health outcomes by reducing caregiver stress, decreasing challenging behaviors, and building essential social-emotional and executive functioning skills. Collaborative Problem Solving® is an evidence-based approach shown to improve behavior, strengthen parent-child relationships, and increase a child’s ability to manage frustration, transitions, and expectations across home and community settings. Research and reported outcomes include improved parent-child interactions, reductions in ADHD/ODD symptoms, improved executive functioning, and significant decreases in caregiver stress. Strengthening caregiver skills and understanding of neurobiology supports long-term emotional regulation, stability, and overall family well-being.
Consultation
Whether or not you need help navigating a school meeting such as a IEP/504 or need to discuss additional supports and resources for your neuro-diverse youth, we are here for you. We schedule a 2 hour intake consultation so we can fully understand your needs and provide initial recommendations. Follow up consultations are available as needed at an hourly rate.
Collaborative Advocacy
Sometimes meetings such as IEP’s , 504’s can feel very overwhelming. We are here to help. We use a Family Partner model where we walk alongside, without judgement to help you reach your goals. We will be present with you for moral support and to speak up if need be. Make sure that you’re being heard and can support you in understanding your legal rights and navigating barriers as they arise.
Professional Coaching
Perfect for you to hone the skills learned in one of our trainings. We know just like any other skill it takes time, practice and a good helping relationship to practice what we teach well. We provide coaching to individuals and teams for developing Collaborative, Restorative, Trauma Informed and Resiliency building practices into your own programs.
Parent Coaching
Struggling to set get expectations met? School challenges? Social difficulties? Have you tried everything and none of it has led to a long term solution? Consider parent coaching from a parent who has “Been there and Get’s it.” We offer coaching to families who or are looking for individual support and skill building. We focus on understanding your families diverse dynamics and needs, building realistic expectations, creating supports, coming up with ways to respond to problems and creating long term solutions.
All About Me: A Therapeutic Life Story
Jules Rice has been trained by Richard Rose as a Certified Life Story Work Practitioner to give children the opportunity to tell their own life story. The gift of giving a child the ability to share their voice and create understanding of their unique journey is priceless. Jules can support the full, in-depth life story work or even a simple All About Me book. As international therapeutic life story work expert Richard Rose says, “Children need to know where they are from in order to know where they are going.” Catch the exciting news from ODHS about All About Me books in Oregon! https://www.orparc.org/resources/life-story-narrative
Collaborative Problem Solving® Workshops taught by Think Kids Certified Trainers Shannon Pugerude, MEd and Jules Rice.
Melt Downs? Shut Downs? Other Challenging Behaviors?
Join Shannon and Jules to learn the ways to create a more manageable and calmer environment. You’ll learn how to work with each other to understand the things leading to challenging behaviors/situations, and how to work together to come up with a plan for how to handle problems before they happen. Take the first step today to better understand and help your child, and become the individual you want to be.
Essential Foundations Workshop, Parenting Classes, Introductory and Refresher Options Available.
The Collaborative Problem Solving® approach, out of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is an evidence-based method to managing challenging behavior that promotes the understanding that challenging kids lack the skill - not the will - to behave; specifically, skills related to problem-solving, flexibility and frustration tolerance. Unlike traditional models of discipline, the CPS approach avoids the use of power, control and motivational procedures and instead focuses on collaborating with the child/ youth/ young adult to solve the problems leading to challenging behavior and building the skills they need to succeed.
Reunifying Families
The Hero Makers walk alongside clients through the lens of meeting parents where they're at in their journey in raising healthy, happy children. The Hero Makers values all clients and works from a foundation that all parents love their children and can transform difficult family relationships to calm and nurturing ones through hands-on skill building in the home.
Cost for Services
2 Hour Intake Appointment - $200
Hourly - Family Consultation, Advocacy, IEP/504, Telehealth, Phone, In Home Support - $150 per hour
Professional Coaching and Training - $250 per hour
12 hour Collaborative Problem Solving® - $395 per Person Essential Foundations Training - By Contract Only
Collaborative Problem Solving 6 Week Parenting Course - $225 per Person, $355 per Couple
Email Viewing and Response is $37.50 per 15 Minute Increments
Review of Records Including but not Limited to IEP/504, Neuropsychological Reports, etc. $37.50 per 15 Minute Increments
Coordination of Care with Others on Your Behalf $37.50 per 15 Minute Increments