Allison and I are off to Kansas City for a Train the Trainers session of Parents Empowering Parents. If you don't know about PEP, it is a fantastic parenting skills program specifically geared for parents of children with bleeding disorders.
Check out the PEP website.
We first took a PEP class before Jack was even one year old and knew right away that this was an important program for the bleeding disorders community. The great thing about PEP is it is (ideally) presented by a team of a social worker, nurse and a parent or parents. Each member of the team brings unique knowledge, experience and perspective to the program.
This weekend we're helping facilitate a Train the Trainers (TTT) program where we train parents, nurses and social workers on how to put on a PEP and take it back to their own communities.
We have had the privilege these last couple years to help with TTT and in doing so have worked with the primary creator of the program, Danna Merritt, MSW, CSW as well as our great team from the Houston Treatment Center (Gulf States) Ed Kuebler, MSW, CSW and Madeline Cantini, RN.
These folks have given so much and are so valuable to our bleeding disorders communities, words cannot express our gratitude.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
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