Cultivating Connections and Resiliency with Strong Roots Parent Café
Strong Roots Parent Cafés ™ are a parent-led peer-to-peer program that creates opportunities for community-building conversations that support reflection, nurture growth, and strengthen protective factors. Strong Roots Parent Cafés promote parent and community strengths and resilience, using a well-developed format and a card deck that features reflective questions designed to encourage conversation around the Strong Roots Protective Factors: Connecting with My People, Supporting Feelings, Caring for Myself, Getting Help, and Enjoying with My Child.
Through these conversations, and the opportunity to connect with others in their community, these Cafés are intended to strengthen evidence-based protective factors and reduce social isolation and parenting stress, increase connection to community resources, and empower parents to raise their children safely and with love, in a manner that is consistent with their own cultural, traditions, and values. Strong Roots programs promote health and resilience by fostering safe, strong, and positive relationships for families with young children, from pregnancy to age 6. During this breakout session, participants will learn about the peer-delivered trauma-informed care model Strong Roots Protective Factors which are evidence-based and promote family resilience, and will have the opportunity to experience Strong Roots Parent Cafes. This parent-led program supports community-building conversations to encourage reflection, nurture growth, and strengthen protective factors. Strong Roots Parent Café co-collaborators share accounts of the impacts that Strong Roots Parent Cafés has on parents and caregivers within the community. Additionally, attendees will experience an interactive Strong Roots Parent Café.
Dr. Kate Rosenblum
PhD, ABPP, IMH-E, Co-Presenter
Dr. Kate Rosenblum, PhD, ABPP, IMH-E is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Michigan, where she co-directs Zero to Thrive (www.zerotothrive.org), a program that aims promote the health and resilience of families from conception to early childhood through research, training and community partnership, with a strong focus on promoting equity and reducing behavioral health disparities. Dr. Rosenblum directs the Infant and Early Childhood Clinic within Psychiatry and is one of the developers of the Strong Roots programs, including Mom Power, Fraternity of Fathers, Strong Roots Parent Cafés, and Perinatal DBT. Her expertise in perinatal, infant, and early childhood is internationally recognized; she is a Fellow with the national organization Zero to Three and is a former president of the Board of the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health. Dr. Rosenblum led the statewide evaluation of the Michigan model for Infant Mental Health Home Visiting which ultimately led to its inclusion on key evidence-based registries. She has published more than 150 research articles and leads and collaborates on numerous federal, state, and foundation grants with a primary focus on prevention and intervention to promote resilience for families with young children who experience adversity.
Stacy Morris
MSA, BS, AAS, Co-Presenter
Stacy Morris-she/her/hers, MSA, BS, AAS is the Strong Roots Parent Café Project Coordinator at the University of Michigan. She is a proud graduate of Central Michigan University, Fire Up Chips! Stacy is passionate about women’s and children’s health, specifically black maternal mortality, and racial health disparities. Stacy is a DONA educated and practicing Birth Doula. Stacy is an active member of Birth Detroit’s advisory council. She loves helping others while working in the community. Stacy was raised on the Northwest side of Detroit, Michigan. She loves to spend time with her husband Ramone and brilliant 11-year-old son, Andrew. Stacy is looking forward to continuing the fight for reproductive justice for all.
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