About this episode

Rachel Braverman discusses the challenges parents face with professionals and offers strategies in a peer support session.

Hello and welcome to the AandF podcast. In this episode we’ve a recording of a Walking with Families peer support group sessions with adoptive parent and NVR practitioner Rachel Braverman. Rachel has broad experience of working with and supporting families using NVR and in this mini session titled ‘unhelpful help’ she unpicks the challenges many parents face working with professionals and families and some strategies to get around that. You can connect with Rachel at the NVR Consortium here. If you’re an adoptive parent and would like to join the community. Below is the link to the joining form, we meet weekly online on Monday lunchtimes as well as during the month in the evenings. https://forms.office.com/e/drdn16BLZ2 We also have a FB group that will be part of the community and you can join that here. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1620682492650215/ As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com Listen/subscribe on iTunes here Spotify here

People in this episode

Hosts: Al Coates, Scott Casson-Rennie

Guest: Rachel Braverman

Topics covered

• adoption
• fostering
• parenting
• peer support
• NVR
• family support

Keywords

• unhelpful help
• NVR
• adoptive parent
• peer support
• family challenges
• strategies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NVR Consortium, AandFpodcast@gmail.com, BlueSky, Facebook

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