New Parent Program Volunteer Coordinator
Current- Facilitate a monthly new parent/infant support group consisting of 10-12 families seeking parental guidance, emotional support, and validation in difficult early childhood issues
- Link families of cultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic diversity creating a supportive network founded on common parenting needs and interests
- Maintain weekly interactions with each family in between group meetings by phone, email, or skype
- Create and maintain a referral network of 25+ outside experts on early child physical, emotional, and mental development in which participants can make outside appointments with
- Re-designed the Parenting Program blog to include an interactive feature allowing new parents to connect with one another online and provide an additional mode of support
- Recruit new participants by visiting parents before hospital discharge to promote benefits of program