PEPS works with a network of community partners to offer parent peer-support programs through community-based organizations. Read about how one of these partners, Open Arms Perinatal Services, has adapted to support parents in their community during the pandemic.
This spring, Open Arms Perinatal Services and PEPS started a peer support group for Spanish-speaking families. Open Arms hosted these meetings at El Centro de la Raza and coordinated additional support for the mothers who attended. Maria, Community Connector at PEPS, and Betty Hernandez, a doula at Open Arms, led this first-time pilot group. Betty is also an obstetrical nurse and acts…
Last Fall, PEPS partnered with Cocoon House, the Snohomish Health District, and Crossroads Alternative High School to offer a PEPS Group to new moms. The PEPS Group started with 5 new moms and met for 8 weeks. Students received credit at Crossroads Alternative High School by participating in the program. The PEPS format encouraged the moms to talk to each other…
by Marnee Crawford Back in 2002, before my son was born, my older sister told me about how fabulous her PEPS experience was. I knew that I wanted that same community and connection to neighborhood families who had babies around the same time we did. Sure enough, the day I showed up to the first meeting on a snowy December…
Last spring Jill Farbarik led a Newborn Group. Jill is an experienced PEPS Leader who has led 6 groups, one evening group and several in the daytime. But this time around, Jill was leading an evening group just for moms. The group had 9 moms, and they wanted the flexibility of meeting in the evenings. “The women in our group wanted…