Family Connection - Parent to Parent Support

Our parent to parent support program consists of trained parent volunteers who provide emotional support and information to families based on the child’s disability or special healthcare concern. These trained parent volunteers have a child with a diagnosis similar to the parent they are matched with. Because the Support Parent has shared the experience of disability in the family, they are able to provide a unique form of support that only another parent who has “been there” can. Interviews with parents suggest that the kind of support Parent to Parent offers is unique and probably cannot come from any other source.