Mom2Mom Helpline Launches National Expansion of Mom2Mom

Mom2Mom, a 24-7 peer counseling helpline for caretakers of children with special needs operated by Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, has announced its nationwide expansion.

The announcement was made during Mom2Mom’s annual Mother’s Day celebration in May in
which callers to the helpline meet their counselors for the first time. Since 2010, Mom2Mom – the 24/7 peer-support helpline for mothers of children with special needs directed by University Behavioral Health Care, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences – has helped moms care for their own mental health. It has made more than 70,000 contacts to date.

The helpline is unique in that calls are answered by mothers of special needs children who have been trained as peer counselors, based on a model of “reciprocal peer support.” Through a partnership with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, peer counselors provide various resources, host support groups throughout the state, or just lend an empathetic ear.

Mom2Mom also helps women who have fewer opportunities for assistance, such as those with adult children with disabilities who have “aged out” of the system and members of the Spanish-speaking community. The helpline is already helping mothers in 34 states (Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New
Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin).

For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/1QeAMIl; Mom2Mom website: http://mom2mom.us.com/
14 June 2015 • EP MAGAZINE | eparent.com
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA —

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