SafeCare

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my name is Lorena Gonzalez Rodriguez

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my oldest her name is ilaria Willow

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Marmaduke and my youngest is Jose Luis

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Renteria IV and then I'm having another

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boy

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I started with safe years with Miss

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Denise

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I was just learning like when to take my

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kids to the doctor it was mostly that

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that was my issue not knowing when to

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take my kids because that was a first

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time Mom hi my name is yanet and I'm the

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state care coordinator the safe CARE

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program is a home visiting model it

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helps parents who have children under

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the age of five and it focuses on three

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main areas safety to help families make

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their home as safe as possible for their

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children and help to help them make the

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best health decisions for their children

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and parent on child interaction I would

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take a little bump in the head and I'll

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be like okay gotta take them to the

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hospital but they're like no you you

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cannot do that like it's

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um not recommended not and I um joined

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Easter Seals when she first enrolled

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into our sleep CARE program in the

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health modules parents learn to assess

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whether a child needs a medical care in

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an emergency situation or they need to

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access a doctor or something that the

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parents can care at home they also

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receive materials from our Safe Care

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model first aid kit and thermometer to

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make sure that they have everything that

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they need with a safe care they they

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show me like hey uh this is the

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Milestones that your children should be

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meeting

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um and they're like yeah you're right

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you you need to let the doctors know and

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I told the doctor at first like I

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started saying like Hey doctor my my

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daughter needs like I've noticed her she

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walks into the wall even if the wall is

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in front of her I started advocating

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more and more telling the doctors oh

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well my daughter needs speech therapy my

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daughter needs glasses they're not

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listening a little bit but they're

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they're trying to say like okay this is

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the reasons she completed the program in

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about five months and she transitioned

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over to her parents as teachers model

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because she wanted to continue services

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with Easter Seals I am Jennifer Messa

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and I work with parents as teachers

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where I began to work with them and I

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started them with the parents Teachers

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Program Jennifer has helped me a lot

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with uh trying to teach him and it's

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just like doing like a little activity

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where we sort out the colors Jose Luis

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really loves it he

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he doesn't sit through the whole thing

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and he's like okay and he's getting

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aggressive my name is Jessica Garcia and

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I'm the parents teachers coordinator the

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parents Teachers program is a home

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visiting model it provides education and

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support for families we look at three

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areas we look at parent-child

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interaction we look at development

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centered parenting and family well-being

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when she first started the parents

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Teachers program she had just graduated

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from Safe Care and she was excited to

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learn more about her children's

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development and so both children have

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been participating or have participated

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in the program but right now we're

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focusing on Jose Luis and as far as Mom

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one thing that I noticed is like her

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greatest strength is that she uses the

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gentle parenting approach she's had a

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lot of achievements she continued the

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success that you know she had with safe

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care she has been learning about

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developmental Milestones as her family

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continues to grow she has gotten the

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support from Jennifer as far as Jose

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Luis I met him when he was probably like

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a year old and now he's three I've seen

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a tremendous growth in just his overall

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development it's really great it helps

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you understand more like in your

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children

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I guess it's just like it has really

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great resources

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and it's just teaching like I I find

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more like the teaching of the like

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connecting with your children I've done

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um counseling um there's been also

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pairing

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um portals I participate in the parent

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cafes and they pretty just might just

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said how they were handling being a

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parent

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um

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and I really did enjoy the counseling

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there's nothing wrong with asking for a

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little bit of help at first I was like

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why do I need

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um to know how to parent I'm like I'm

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already a mom but you know there is

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still things that we can learn a little

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bit more it just confirms that I'm doing

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things right it is uh it's a really

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great program I really do like the

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experience I've felt with Jennifer and

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with Denise it's been great

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that's my experience and I think to

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parents they would take great advantage

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of a program like this because not

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everybody teaches you stuff like they do

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and sometimes we don't have great

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backgrounds Easter Seals does show us

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hey we can do better or we're doing good

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this program really does help parents

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one learn about their child's

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development two learns how to interact

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with their child in an age-appropriate

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way and helps them meet milestones and

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reach goals and I think one of the

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important things that I've told Lorena

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as well is that a lot of parents they

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just need that reassurance that they are

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doing a great job Lorena was already

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doing a great job but this program just

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reassures her that she is doing an

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amazing job with her children and I

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think that's what this program does

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it starts here

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