Everyone loves their children but not everyone understands that the way we care for the youngest among us will have an impact on our society for years to come.
With that reality in mind, a new program run by Headway Emotional Health Services, a Twin Cities-based mental health provider for families, aims to improve the parenting skills of at-risk American Indian parents by helping them learn to give their infant-to-preschool-aged children the support they need to be prepared for success later in life.
The program, known as Family Spirit, is an evidence-based curriculum developed specifically for a Native population. Headway, which already runs other early-childhood programs, wanted to respond to a growing crisis they were seeing among American Indian families in the Twin Cities, fueled in part by high rates of opioid addiction.
[For more on this story by Andy Steiner, go to https://www.minnpost.com/menta...mprove-kids-prospect]
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