Parent educators work with families through many life cycle events, including grief and loss. Dr. Kirk Coverstone, a consulting psychologist, and Roschel Servantes, Director of Learning and Development at Parents as Teachers National Center, join us to talk about what home visitors might expect in the immediate aftermath of a death experienced by a family they work with and specific ways to provide grieving families with practical and emotional support. This episode addresses loss and grief in detail and may be difficult to hear. Listener discretion advised. For more information, please visit: Bereaved Parents in the USA: https://bereavedparentsusa.org/ The Compassionate Friends: https://www.compassionatefriends.org/ Dougy Center: https://www.dougy.org/ National Sudden and Unexpected Infant Child Loss: https://www.sidscenter.org/ Share: https://nationalshare.org/
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PATCON25: Global Perspectives on Home Visiting
In addition to a variety of workshops and breakout sessions, this year's annual conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico brought together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore how Parents as Teachers is implemented in diverse cultural contexts. In this episode, recorded at the conference, Parents as Teachers Board Director Pete Weldy moderates a panel of experts from Nigeria, the US, and Switzerland on the successes, challenges, and lessons learned in integrating research into practice to support families and young children worldwide.
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Tell Me a Story: Kima K.
We've heard from a doula, now let's hear from a mom. Kima K., mother of three, shares her experience working with a doula and why she recommends a doula to every mom she meets.
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What Doulas Deliver to Home Visiting
How can we improve health outcomes for parents and children? By starting early. Parents as Teachers has been working with affiliates to bring certified doulas alongside our evidence-based model to improve outcomes for newborns and their families. Guest host Rachel Giannini speaks to doulas and parent educators Robin Lloyd and Erica Baltrusaitis about their work and how they help families with the youngest of children.
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One Model, Every Family: Adapting Home Visiting Around the World
Parents as Teachers is rich with a multitude of backgrounds and languages, and we intentionally aim to engage families in responsive and relevant ways - at home and abroad - to optimize positive child and family outcomes. Guest hosts Dr. Dipesh Navsaria and Rachel Giannini speak to leading specialists Jovanna Archuleta, Michael Huesca, Heidi Kranz, Bec Slater, and Chisom Adirika about their work on how perspective-aware enhancements designed to further support families result in new parenting skills, more confidence in parenting, and stronger relationships with children.
Parents as Teachers has been working with families for over 40 years, matching parents and caregivers with trained professionals who make regular, personal home visits during a child's earliest years to build strong communities, thriving families, and children that are healthy, safe, and learning. Our internationally recognized evidence-based home visiting model is backed by 40 years of research-proven outcomes for children and families. Parents as Teachers currently serves nearly 180,000 families in all 50 U.S. states, 115 Tribal organizations, six other countries, and one U.S. territory.
The Parents as Teachers podcast will highlight stories of home visitors, parent educators, trainers, doulas, and researchers – and take listeners behind the scenes of our evidence-based model, and the people who bring it to life.
To learn more, go to parentsasteachers.org.
The Parents as Teachers Podcast is hosted by Erinn Miller, and produced by Jill Ruby.
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