Baby Connect supports CTF’s Shaken Baby initiative through messaging on knitted baby hats. The hats are knitted and then donated by inmates with the Missouri Department of Corrections.
In an effort to help young parents in Missouri’s Bootheel region, ParentLink at the University of Missouri, Columbia, with a grant from CTF, created Bootheel Baby Connect. The project includes a Facebook group for parents of new babies who live in Missouri’s southeastern most region. The group provides parents with a network of friends with whom they can share positive parenting, challenges, and solutions, as well as access to basic supports. The group also utilizes the support of the ParentLink Warmline (1-800-552-8522) to provide services to families in need. We spoke with Ta’janette Sconyers, M.Ed., Director of Baby Connect. She says the program’s main goal is prevention but she knows there are times when intervention strategies are necessary and Baby Connect and the Warmline are there for those times as well.
AUDIO: Sconyers talks about targeting teen parents with the program, but also being a resource for other parents:
AUDIO: Another goal of the program is to have an impact on future generations of the families it supports:
AUDIO: Sconyers talks about the ParentLink Warmline:
