Podcast Episode 9
What Doulas Deliver to Home Visiting
What Doulas Deliver to Home Visiting
How can we improve health outcomes for parents and children? By starting early. Parents as Teachers has been working with affiliates to bring certified doulas alongside our evidence-based model to improve outcomes for newborns and their families. Guest host Rachel Giannini speaks to doulas and parent educators Robin Lloyd and Erica Baltrusaitis about their work and how they help families with the youngest of children.
How can we improve health outcomes for parents and children? By starting early. Parents as Teachers has been working with affiliates to bring certified doulas alongside our evidence-based model to improve outcomes for newborns and their families. Guest host Rachel Giannini speaks to doulas and parent educators Robin Lloyd and Erica Baltrusaitis about their work and how they help families with the youngest of children.
Guests
Guests
Robin Lloyd is the Lead Parent Educator for Normandy Schools Collaborative Parents as Teachers National Center and National Trainer and brings 25+ years of home visiting experience to her role. Her work has improved the lives of many underserved individuals, successfully educating families who face homelessness, material poverty, and other barriers to social support. As a certified doula since 2019 and a lactation educator with training in perinatal mood disorders and grief and loss, she offers emotional, physical, and educational support to birthing people and their partners.
Erica Baltrusaitis is from Outreach Center for Community Resources in Scranton, PA. For over 15 years Erica has been going into family homes as a parent educator in two evidence-based home visiting programs: Early Head Start and Parents as Teachers. While delivering these programs, she discovered her passion for promoting secure bonds and attachment between mothers and their babies. When Outreach decided to pilot an enhancement to our Parents as Teachers model by adding much-needed postpartum doula services, she was honored to be one of the parent educators trained and certified. She has been a postpartum doula for the past three years.