Georgia Parent Mentor Partnership

Georgia Parent Mentor Partnership Although the specific job descriptions and work plans may vary slightly from one school district to another, mentor’s work is focused on enhancing communication and collaboration between families, schools, and communities in order to improve outcomes for students with disabilities and their families. Families: Parent mentors provide information and resources to…

Pathway For Healing

“Pathway for Healing’s Vision and Mission Our Vision Pathway for Healing envisions that every wounded child have a strong and healthy family, equipped to facilitate healing. Our Mission By using proven research and effective methods, we will provide attachment focused support, resources, education, and training for families and the professionals who support them.

Project AFFIRM: Caregivers Planned Respite Program

Stressed?  Lack Support?  Nowhere to turn?  Respite may be for you! Project AFFIRM Augmenting Family Functioning by In-Home Respite Management Project AFFIRM is a Caregivers Planned Respite Program.  It is a FREE program funded by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.    Program goal is to help parents become better caregivers by strengthening…

Joni & Friends Family Retreat

Joni and Friends Family Retreats provide a lifeline to families who want hope and encouragement that will last. You and your family will be blessed, inspired, and make new friendships that will last a lifetime.  At both U.S. and International Family Retreat, special-needs families receive encouragement and care in the comfort of a safe and accessible family…

31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family

Together – Katie, Kathryn, Sara, and I want to see the walls separating the special needs community from the rest of the world fall down. We want to see bridges built and friendships forged. We want to see churches and communities step up their game to rally around the parents of special-needs children. Over the course of…

Doing Ministry Like A Missionary

“Whether you want to call it “outeach,” “missional,” or “go and tell,” I think it’s important for church-based special needs ministries (and churches without special needs ministries) to start operating again like missionaries. We need to be the ones to shoulder the responsibility of being missionaries and take the initiative to cross cultural barriers in…

Recruiting Families as Resident Trainers for Children’s Hospital

Project DOCC was approved to start at Children’s Hospital at Erlanger! If you feel that you have some experience raising a child with special health care needs, are willing to share your journey to benefit others, and would be interested in being an advocate in this way, please contact me.