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GROW Parenting Podcast
Supporting organization:
GROW - Giving Real Opportunities to Women
URL:
http://www.womengrow.org/podcast
Location:
Cary, Illinois - USA
Affiliate organizations:
Cary Country Preschool
Project Description:
The GROW Parenting Podcast is dedicated to family counseling, and early childhood education, advocacy and therapy. Topics include autism, IEP negotiation, child advocacy, parenting, and raising a child with special needs. Keeping with its mission to provide access to family support and counseling services, GROW is one of the very first nonprofit organizations nationwide to utilize podcasting to offer these services.
Through the podcast, Giving Real Opportunities to Women (GROW) has been able to tap into a far greater community beyond its initial supporters and clients. Visitors to the GROW website have grown from 150 total visitors in 2003 to over 800 visitors per month in early 2006, and growing. The podcast is a free service offering parenting and early childhood education advice, allowing GROW to communicate with a larger audience at minimal cost. Since starting the show, GROW has been able to open up new ways of online community outreach (including an e-newsletter), and online fundraising.
Podcasts are hosted by Erika Huber, Founder and Executive Director of Giving Real Opportunities to Women (GROW). In her professional career, Erika has treated children and young adults with developmental disabilities and counseled families of children with developmental disabilities for ten years. She is a Developmental Therapist working in the State of Illinois, and has assisted numerous families in the negotiation and mediation of Individual Education Programs (IEPs) for their children within their local school districts. Erika Huber earned her BA in Psychology from Barat College (IL) and her M.Ed. in Early Childhood, Family Crisis Counseling and Licensure in Community Counseling from DePaul University (IL).
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Points of interest:
GROW is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing access to affordable childcare for at-risk mothers and families on welfare, and help those mothers pursue a trade, on-the-job training, or a degree in higher education. GROW focuses its efforts on Lake County and McHenry County, Illinois.
Mission Statement
GROW strives to aid single, at-risk mothers and mothers on welfare by providing opportunities to have access to higher education and affordable childcare. GROW offers a holistic approach that encompasses counseling, advocacy, teaching, research and therapeutic support for both child and mother in order for families to break the cycle of and dependency on welfare.
About Cary Country Preschool
Cary Country Preschool provides developmentally appropriate experiences in all areas of learning, such as: socialization, small and large motor development, creativity, language and speech, and cognitive and intellectual development in a loving and caring environment. Cary Country Preschool: Teaching from the Heart to the Spirit of the Child
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