{"id":9243,"date":"2009-02-14T20:56:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2021-03-26T16:54:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:54:43","slug":"parents-of-children-with-food-allergies-to-meet-in-framingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2009\/02\/14\/health-fitness\/parents-of-children-with-food-allergies-to-meet-in-framingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of Children with Food Allergies to Meet in Framingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> -- Parents of children with food allergies are invited to a meeting with clinical social worker Marianne Fougere on Wednesday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m. at the Metro-West Allergy &amp; Asthma Educational Support Group, which meets at Allergy &amp; Asthma Treatment Specialists, 475 Franklin St., Framingham. The program is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many challenging emotional issues and uncomfortable family situations that come up when a child in<!--more--> the family has food allergies,\u201d says Sharon Schumack, Director of Education for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, New England Chapter, which is sponsoring the meeting. \u201cTalking with a social worker and other parents who have the same concerns is a good way to come up with ideas for how to handle these challenges effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Fougere, LICSW, is a member of the Counseling Collaborative, a group practice with offices in Lexington and Sudbury, MA. She has extensive experience working with children and parents, individually and in groups.<\/p>\n<p>AAFA New England organizes educational support group programs throughout the region, publishes a newsletter, and runs a telephone resource and referral line for people coping with allergies and asthma. For more information, or a free copy of \u201cEating Out with Food Allergies,\u201d call (781)444-7778 or see <a href=\"https:\/\/framingham.com\/cgi-bin\/newsman\/mgr\/http;\/\/www.asthmaandallergies.org\">www.asthmaandallergies.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8212; Parents of children with food allergies are invited to a meeting with clinical social worker Marianne Fougere on Wednesday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m. at the Metro-West Allergy &amp; Asthma Educational Support Group, which meets at Allergy &amp; Asthma Treatment Specialists, 475 Franklin St., Framingham. The program is free and open to the public&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2009\/02\/14\/health-fitness\/parents-of-children-with-food-allergies-to-meet-in-framingham\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[190,4163],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-fitness","tag-allergy","tag-asthma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9244,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}