Testimonials

Hanna, social worker focusing on mental health, experience with refugees from Central asia & Middle East

The Stoplight benefits both refugee families and refugee workers. The material helps the workers have a deeper understanding of why and how stress has a negative influence on refugees' well-being and how to help them through it. It also helps the refugees understand themselves by normalising stress reactions, giving hope for higher resiliency, and promoting healthier interactions within the family.

Stella Nakayega, Primary School Teacher

Before learning about The Stoplight Approach, I was instilling fear in the kids I taught. They used to think of me as a devil. Through Stoplight, I realized I had to build connections with my kids. Since then, I have seen their performance in my class improve dramatically.

Sarah Ganger, Mom of four & former teacher

I started using Stoplight with my kids because we are a family that is very diverse and different. We have two children that are biological and two that are adopted. We were looking for tools that would help us understand and relate to one another, and Stoplight has been really helpful for that. It’s given us and our kids more empathy and understanding of their emotions. We found it really helpful in our family and so we ended up doing a workshop for it in our church. And we found that people really responded to it well. So we’ve seen it be really helpful for a lot of families, including ours. 

Andrea Foster, ECE, BTh, MEd, Mom of four, two of whom have developmental disabilities

The Stoplight Approach is a much needed resource which enables parents to self-reflect, apply concepts, and parent more effectively. I’ve found it be be valuable resource for small groups, workshops, and personal use.