The Intake Process When a child first comes to the Friendship Network for Children, we begin a unique creative endeavor to discover what will bring more happiness into their life. First and foremost, we look for ways to help your child feel safe, comfortable and understood. Our intake process is designed to assure that our services will be helpful to your child. For therapeutic socialization groups we pay careful attention to group composition so that all members of the group may benefit. If you have looked over our web site and believe the Friendship Network might be a good match…

Frequently Asked Questions What are the qualifications of the group leaders? Nancy Swanberg, MS, LMHC is the executive director and clinical director . Nancy is a licensed mental health counselor with over 25 years of experience working with children who have communication and connection challenges. She is the founder of The Friendship Network for Children and the creator of the The Connection Formula® and Social Accessibility™ model used here. You’ll find more information about Nancy on the About Us page. She supervises all group leaders who are master’s level clinicians or master’s level interns. Do you have typical peers in…

“Increasing autism quality of life: experts at maximizing social, emotional, and vocational independence.” Exciting Crowd-funding Project “Reel Life Skills: Job Readiness Training on a Movie Set!”​​ FundraisersYou can go directly to Razoo, the crowd funding site we are using with the link below. Click here to read more and donate.