Bolts4Kids

It's going to be an exciting May over here with Bolts4Kids! Send us an email at [email protected] or check out the links below for more information!

P4AP Handling Big Emotions: https://bolts4kids.ca/courses/

Video Games for Growth: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/zelda-gaming-for-growth-using-zelda-for-therapeutic-play-tickets-1988037408405?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true

Interview with Lorraine Fox: May 26 Link TBD

Who wants to attend this CYC-Asset webinar with our very own Joanne Leblanc presenting!

Zelda Gaming for Growth: Using Zelda for Therapeutic Play Discover how The Legend of Zelda can be a therapeutic tool.

A wonderful piece on the evidence based importance in relational practice 👏

Believing Does Not Make It So! - National Association for Child & Youth Care Professionals, Inc. The National Association for Child & Youth Care Professionals, Inc. is a membership organization of state and regional associations, child & youth care agencies, and professionals.

Who else is excited about the P4AP Launch this weekend?

Bolts4kids Welcome to P4AP

Many of our families have connected with us about the impacts of AI on child development -

In this month’s edition of CYC-Online, Judith Lewis Herman, MD and Frank W. Putnam, MD say it best:

https://cyc-net.org/CYC-Online/cyconline-apr2026-chatbots.html

You can check out some strategy ideas on this subject in the resource section of www.bolts4kids.ca

The Risks in Children’s Use of Chatbots With growing horror, we have been following news reports of AI chatbots convincing troubled children and adolescents that su***de is a noble and acceptable release from their distress. Reading transcripts of these chatbot-child “conversations” literally brings tears at times—tears of rage ...

Welcome to the Bolts Olympics! (Spring Term 2026!)

This is not about competition. It is not about winning or losing. It is about showing up, playing, trying, laughing, and being part of something that moves with you.

Bolts4Kids began during the pandemic, when connection felt harder and families needed something different. Something relational. Something playful. Something that didn’t ask kids to fit into a system, but instead invited them to build the system with us.
What started as simple virtual and in-person activities has grown into a living, breathing community where families, children, and youth co-create what we do together. And at the centre of that is our Spring Term Participants model.

Being a Spring Term participant means you are part of it. Not as a passive attendee, but as someone who helps shape the experience. The activities are not pre-packaged and delivered to you. They are built with you, by you, through curiosity, interest, energy, and connection.

The Bolts Olympics is one expression of that.
A series of fun, flexible, relational “events” where the goal is not performance, but participation. Where kids can jump in, try things out, switch lanes, rest, re-engage, and most importantly—feel part of something without pressure.

You might see teamwork challenges, movement games, creative builds, problem-solving missions, or spontaneous ideas that come straight from the group. Nothing is rigid. Everything is relational.

This is what Bolts4Kids has always been about: meeting kids where they are, building with families, and creating spaces where growth happens through connection, not correction.

So welcome to the Bolts Olympics!
Where participation is the point!
Where connection is the win!

And where every Spring Term brings something new into motion!

Bolts Olympics 2026 (a look back on the last 5 years) Welcome to the Bolts Olympics.This is not about competition. It is not about winning or losing. It is about showing up, playing, trying, laughing, and being ...

Saturday Reminder: Skills & Strats is a FREE youtube series that provides short life skills tips for caregivers and professionals to learn with and use as tools when working with children and youth!

Skills & Strats: Make a Sandwhich Making a sandwich might seem like a small task, but in this video we slow it down and turn it into something meaningful, playful, and connection-based.Step b...

What is Pillars 4 ALL practices about? Here is a few key pieces of the program outline! Send any questions you have over to [email protected] !

Have a great weekend!