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10/26/2019  |   1:00 PM - 2:15 PM   |  Ventana Ballroom C

Essential Programs to Coach and Empower

Parent empowerment is a leading topic in hearing health and habilitation around the world, yet practitioners in low- and limited-income countries remain challenged with sustainable outcomes in parent engagement and responsiveness. Many caregivers face harsh stigma, barriers to inclusion, and limited parent supports. Communication development, literacy, and social emotional growth of children with hearing loss are often delayed and remain a challenge. Many practitioners and parents must learn to cope with children’s disabilities among limited knowledge, poverty, and poor health conditions. The predicament of most parents living in resource poor communities and the complexity of a global hearing health and humanitarian industry requires the traditional approach to parent interventionism must change. Partners for A Greater Voice (PGV), a non-profit international training and education organization, implemented a parent education survey in 2015 (completed by over 450 parents) which led to the development of Essential Programs to Coach and Empower. The initiative is designed around the psychological well-being of parental caregivers. It is focused on parent potential and coaching strategies universally accepted across culture and socio-economic status. This poster presentation illustrates PGV's current initiative and resource to foster caregiver well-being with the goal of improving their capacity and responsiveness. Five domains of well-being are presented which can support practitioners in their practices.

• To engage practitioners in new and holistic parent interventions
• To promote caregiver well-being as a priority
• To enable caregivers through positive psychology

Presentation:
18369_12304JoanneTravers.pdf

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Joanne Travers (POC,Primary Presenter), Partners for A Greater Voice, greatervoice@comcast.net;
Joanne is founder and director of Partners for A Greater Voice (PGV). The organization has provided training and education to hundreds of practitioners and over a thousand parents in the Dominican Republic, India, and Honduras. Currently, PGV provides support to practitioners, focusing on caregiver well-being; training programs empower and engage caregivers in their potential and their responsiveness to children's hearing and learning. Joanne has counseled parents since 1995. She is inspired by her two adult children who were born with Ushers syndrome. She has served as a director of the board of the Coalition for Global Hearing Health from its inception until 2014. She has a Masters degree in International Management and is certified in positive psychology. Joanne published a book called Coaching and Empowering Caregivers of Children with Hearing loss, an approach to foster well-being. Free copies will be available to qualified practitioners traveling from low-resource countries.

ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists. Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

AAA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Receives support from Partners for A Greater Voice,Inc..