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…
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Partnership brings parent support to teen moms
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…
Featured Volunteer: Marnee Crawford
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…
A New Option for PEPS in the Evenings
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…