In this episode, Marjorie speaks with Marja Hodes, a clinical psychologist from the Netherlands with extensive experience working with parents with intellectual disabilities. Her frame of mind is about finding appropriate ways to support parents and continuously staying open to their lived expertise. Together with her colleagues, Marja developed a toolkit “Talking About Children” (and earned a national award). This toolkit supports future parents with intellectual disabilities to think carefully about the consequences of having and raising a child. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In this episode, Marjorie interviews Tammy Bachrach, a researcher and adult child of parents with intellectual disabilities. Tammy speaks to her research interviewing adult children of parents with IDD and her own lived expertise. Her perspective and multitude of experience should be really interesting to child welfare workers working with parents and children! SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In this episode, Marjorie interviews Margaret Spencer who has extensive experience as a social worker, as a 'mother' supporting a mother with intellectual disabilities (Beth & Lily's mother) and as a researcher. She brings forward the issues of using or relying on parenting capacity assessments, how our beliefs on capacity affects our views, how offering a supportive environment is possible and makes a big difference in the lives of families headed by parents with intellectual disabilities. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In this episode, Liz Snyder, Co-Director of the Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy, speaks with Ricardo Pina and Nancy Carre-Lee from New Jersey's Department of Children and Families (NJDCF) as they share some of the innovative efforts New Jersey has put in place to support worker safety and wellness, including the establishment of the Office of Staff Health & Wellness. SHOWNOTES & RESOURCES available at: https://z.umn.edu/oxygenmask

In this episode, Marjorie interviews Evelina Pituch. She speaks of the needs and service gaps of parents with neurological and physical disabilities, based on focus groups she has conducted with parents with disabilities, their support partner, workers in the field, their managers and community organization workers. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In this episode, Monika Mitra speaks about parenthood of persons with disabilities and the notion of representation in large population datasets. Dr. Monika Mitra is the Nancy Lurie Marks Associate Professor of Disability Policy and Director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University. Her research broadly focuses on disparities in health outcomes and health care access among people with disabilities. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In this episode, Marjorie interviews researcher Dr. Susan Collings. Dr. Collings has met with several school-aged children of parents with intellectual disabilities. She brings forward their perspective in her research and reminds us that children feel connected to their family. Empowering families is thus supporting children. SHOWNOTES, RESOURCES, and Transcript available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

In this episode, Marjorie interviews Beth and Lily, who are 18-year-old twins of Amanda, a mom with an intellectual disability. They talk about being raised within a community of support and about how the decisions we take 'for' the children often have repercussions that we don't consider. This is an important episode that offers child welfare workers a chance to hear from young people with lived experience! SHOWNOTES & RESOURCES available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently

Episode 2 of Putting on your oxygen mask while helping others In this episode, Dr. Kristy Piescher, Director of Research and Evaluation at CASCW, interviews Dr. Austin Griffiths, an Assistant Professor at Western Kentucky University, about his ongoing research focused on improving the health and wellness of the child welfare workforce. SHOWNOTES & RESOURCES available at: https://z.umn.edu/oxygenmask

David McConnell uses three important papers to bring to the forefront context and reminds us how taking a slightly different perspective can lead us to imagine different outcomes. David also speaks about Tim and Wendy Booth's legacy and shares what it was like to work with them. SHOWNOTES & RESOURCES available at: https://z.umn.edu/parenting-done-differently