by Erin Croyle | Apr 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Healthcare can be complicated when you have a disability. Implicit bias – a form of bias that occurs automatically and unintentionally in all of us – can impact care. Medical professionals rarely receive adequate training in how to meet the needs of kids...
by Erin Croyle | Sep 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Shortly after my first child was born and we were still processing his Down syndrome diagnosis, a family elder said to me, “What you’re dealing with now is not different than what any parent experiences. You just got all of the let down and disappointment up front.”...
by centerforfamilyinvolvementblog | May 7, 2022 | Caregivers, New Mom/Dad, Parents
By Dana Yarbrough Director, Center for Family Involvement I was raised to be an independent woman and a caretaker of family members. Many of the women in my life outlived their male partners so examples of independence were everywhere. As a child, I told my...
by Erin Croyle | Jan 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Being a calm, rational, attentive parent in these times is simultaneously important and impossible. As if a raging pandemic weren’t enough, we now have an attempted coup, what appears to be a potential long-term insurgency right here in the United States of America,...
by Erin Croyle | Nov 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
The widespread inequities and ableism that 2020 has brought to the surface is palpable. Palpable – a feeling so intense it seems tangible. Do you feel it? How is it manifesting inside of you? Anger? Frustration? Sadness? Exhaustion? All of the above? Perhaps the worst...
