No parent should feel alone. Ever.
What is Ohio P2P?
Ohio Parent to Parent (Ohio P2P) is a statewide peer mentoring program for family members, of any age, with a disability or special healthcare need. It matches parents, siblings, foster parents, grandparent, caretakers, etc with a Support Parent (SP) who have been through similar experiences. The Support Parent or Peer Mentor provides support based on your needs and issues relating to parenting and/or providing care to your loved one.
Ohio P2P is unique because we are staffed by family members of people with disabilities or special health care needs. Ohio P2P matches families for many diverse reasons. Some examples are:
- Disability
- Ethnicity/race/culture
- Primary language
- Specific surgery/procedure
- Age of loved one
- Adoptive/foster parents
- NICU
- Specific topics, issues, or concerns, etc
Becoming a Referred Parent
A Referred Parent (RP) is a person who would like to connect with another family for support. Some reasons for wanting to connect to a family could be: to learn more about their experience with a diagnosis, assessments, and treatments; to talk through barriers; to learn more about how to navigate service systems; if you/your child is new to a diagnosis; if your brother is transitioning from school to adult life community, etc. To get connected to a Support Parent, please complete the form below. An Ohio P2P Coordinator will be in touch soon.
Becoming a Support Parent
Support Parents (SP) are usually individuals who have experience in raising children and providing support to an individual with a disability or special healthcare need. They are knowledgeable about services and resources and are willing to share their experiences with others in a positive, supportive way.
P2P staff will provide training for support parents in a variety of formats including in-person, 1 or 2 short trainings (either in person or on zoom), and online modules combined with beginning and ending sessions via zoom. Support Parents (SP) are not expected to be experts and will be trained to know when to refer families to professional services, if necessary. Once trained, the Support Parent (SP) will be entered into an electronic database to be matched with a Referred Parent (RP).
Our Beliefs
We believe:
- that every family’s journey has value.
- in the strength and resiliency of families.
- in the power of families supporting one another.
- supports should be available to families throughout their lifespan.
Our Vision
Our vision is for all Ohio families who have a family member living with a disability and/or special health care need to have access to quality, effective, one-to-one, short-term parent support.
Our Mission
Our mission is to connect parents, siblings, self-advocates, foster parents, grandparents, etc. who have a family member living with a disability and/or special health care need with experienced parent mentors for a wide range of conversations that will be helpful for their best parenting/caregiving.
Questions?
We look forward to hearing from you at
OhioP2P@cchmc.org or 513-636-1245
Ohio P2P, an Alliance Member Organization of Parent to Parent USA.
