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The Role of Family Resource on the Feeding Team
Fran D. Goldfarb MA, CHESMichelle Sepulveda
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What is a Family Resource Specialist?
• Parent of a child who has special needs• Trained in Parent-to-Parent
feeling focused emotional support• Provides information and resources
for services available in the community
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What is the job of a Family Resource Specialist
• Provides parent-to-parent support• Provides information
and resources • Provides system navigation
from a “user’s perspective”
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What is the job of a Family Resource Specialist
• Represents the view of the family• Monitors provision of
family centered care• Serves as a role model
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Where do Family Resource Specialists Work?
• Family Resource Centers/Parent-to Parent• Parent Training and Information
Centers• Family Empowerment Centers• Title V programs
– Program staff– Contract with Family Voices
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Where do Family Resource Specialists Work?
• Clinical settings– Teams– NICU
• Other systems, i.e. Mental Health• Schools• Volunteer/Condition Specific
Organizations• Advocacy Groups
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The Family Resource Specialist in LEND
• Leadership Education in Neuro-developmental and related Disorders
• MCHB funded program• Interdisciplinary Advanced level
training
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Description of Feeding Clinic• Interdisciplinary Team• 1 3-hour session
– Case presentation & planning– Family observation– Feeding Observation– Physical Exam– Weighing and measuring– Social Services & Family Resource
interview– Final Case Conference– Recommendation Discussion– Initiation of Plan/Follow-up plan
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Family Resource on Feeding Team
• Emerging Process– 1st year that family resource has
been an active on-going member of the team
– Role is being defined throughout the course of this year
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Family Resource on Feeding Team
– Experienced parent of a child with ongoing feeding difficulties
• Advantage– Positive enrichment– Source of hope/commonality– naturalizing
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Family Resource on Feeding Team
• Challenge– Identify with concerns of parents– This is still an ongoing concern– Not viewing your experience as the
universal experience
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Family Resource on Feeding Team
• Identification of role– Assuring recommendations are
realistic and consistent with family’s goals and culture
– Assuring team uses family centered processes
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Family Resource on Feeding Team
– Looking at the family’s issuethat may not be addressed by the team
– Initiating contact with the family and allowing the family to know I am a parent of a child with special needs
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Family Resource on Feeding Team
• Identification of role– Reviewing the family’s IEP and making
sure the goals and objective’s meet the family’s need with regards to feeding
– Assuring family understands systems and processes they will encounter
– Peer support and referral information
within the family’s community.
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Family Resource on Feeding Team
– Making sure the family understand follow-up options
– Connecting the family with their local Family Resource Center
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Family Resource: Clinical vs Family Resource Center Role
• Family Resource Center– Purely family focused
• No behavioral expectations/or observation on the child
• Normalizing experience for the parents• Family is encouraged to express emotions
– Staff are mostly parents– Provide information and resources
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Family Resource: Clinical vs. Family Resource Center Role
• Clinical Role– Function as part of a team
• Help other team members to understand family’s philosophical and cultural values
• Help reframe family’s concerns, barriers and behaviors
– View how feeding has impacted the family’s life
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Family Resource: Clinical vs. Family Resource Center Role
– Address how significantly feeding difficulties impact a parent’s confidence in their overall parenting ability
– Coordinate follow-up with parent– Provide information and resources
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Benefits of Family Resource on the Feeding Team
• Trust can be more easily established• Provide team with first person experience
using services and supports• Provide support for the family during the
assessment and follow-up process
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Benefits of Family Resource on the Feeding Team
• Team enriched by knowing experiences of Family Resource Specialist and it humanizes the experience for the teamand the family
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Incorporating Family Resource into Your Feeding Team
• Establish a relationship with your local parent-to-parent program
• Have a parent of a child with feeding difficulties provide an in-service on the experience of the family
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Incorporating Family Resource into Your Feeding Team
• Include a Family Resource Specialist on your feeding team
• Encourage team to spend a “day in the life”