We’re Nationally Award Winning!
Holding space for caregivers of young children like you to figure out a dance of development between yourself, your ancestors, your child, and society at large gets me out of bed every morning. The two cups of Joe always help too.
It lights up every cell in my body to de-tangle the knots of systemic oppression and intergenerational family patterns so that caregivers can be all of who they are. It’s because both you and I know that when you feel supported, you do what you do best…loving your children from your scars and not your wounds.
The cherry on top of it all is that I get to root all my work in social justice practice. I’m honored to provide care to families and children in ways that honor spirits, the land, equity, and liberation.
And it gets better (THANK.YOU.ANCESTORS) …
Come Back to Care was awarded the 2021 Emerging Leadership Award by Zero to Three for innovation in infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) practice. Zero to Three is the leading scholarly journal for early childhood development and a national organization that champions the importance of the first three years of life.
I’m sharing this with you because this award belongs to us.
Thank you sincerely for receiving and reciprocating.
Thank you wholeheartedly for learning and growing together.
Award or no award, my commitment to supporting parents like you in your decolonized, embodied, and intergenerational family building journey grows stronger each day.
With this award, I’ll keep you posted on exciting collaborations with Zero to Three.
In the meantime, if you’re a care worker working with families and their young children, I did an interview with Zero to Three discussing our field of early childhood development:
“I wholeheartedly believe that the most immediate challenge facing IECMH professionals is the way we wear ourselves down overdelivering within systems that underdeliver… I believe that we have begun not only to see the flaws in the systems and institutions we are in, but also to compassionately agitate for change in the field’s business as usual. Collectively, we have experienced a (rude) awakening to the capitalistic and colonized structure of our society that no longer works for our collective humanity. We have begun to question our field’s policy, research, and practice that overemphasize fragmentation, disconnection, and disposability under the guise of mindful compassion and a “savioristic” helping dynamic.”
Cheers to us!
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