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Join the Mom's Chat via Zoom.
15 May at 6:30 pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82995641591
Meeting ID: 829 9564 1591 Passcode: 427077
To connect with Clallam County Parent to Parent email: P2P@ClallamMosaic.org
Or call our Parent to Parent Coordinator, Shelby Bell at 360-406-1215.
What is Parent to Parent?
Parent to Parent is a program that provides information and one-to- one emotional support to parents, and families, of children who have special needs.
With financial support from the Arc of Washington State and Clallam County Health & Human Services, Clallam County Parent to Parent (P2P) supports, encourages and empowers families and caregivers of minors with special needs.
Parent to Parent works to provide:
• Parent Matching: 1 to 1 matching of new parents with trained, experienced parents, based on similar diagnosis and family issues
• Personal support, social support and engagement
• Information and education about disabilities
• Referral to services in the community
• Culturally relevant services through ethnic outreach
• Training for parents who want to become Helping Parent peer mentor volunteers
• E-newsletter from Arc of Washington Parent to Parent
You can sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/sfo9p36
You can read archived issues here:
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs082/1102737289181/archive/1103467143824.html
History of Parent to Parent
1971 First P2P organization started in Nebraska
• A program in which parents of children with disabilities could share information and emotional
support with other parents through one-to-one match.
1980 P2P Washington state started in King County
1986 1st National P2P Conference: host Washington state
2003 P2P USA Alliance formed with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• To ensure that families nation-wide whose children have special needs have access
to Parent to Parent support
• Founders came from Vermont, Arizona, Pennsylvania and South Carolina
• P2P WA state is a member of the alliance
Learn more at: https://www.p2pusa.org/