Carteret home therapy program is helping with rural parents' layers of stress [ednc.org]

Karen Clemmer 4/12/211:50 PM

By Liz Bell, Education NC, April 8, 2021

Jessica Phillips, a mom of three in Carteret County, found out her youngest child has autism in October 2019.

“I didn’t want to get out of bed after his diagnosis — it was just so hard — and then you throw the pandemic on top of that, and I’ve got three kids at home,” Phillips said. “I’ve got one autistic child, one that’s severely hyper, and then my tween who just thinks she’s too cool for everything.”

During weeks of frustrating calls to find intervention services for her son with autism, who is now 4 years old, Phillips knew she needed something for her own mental health, she said. The local health department recommended Better Beginnings, a home-based therapy program developed by and operated out of the Carteret Partnership for Children, one of75 local Smart Start partnerships in the state.

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