How do we maintain and promote responsive relationships during the coronavirus pandemic?
While stay-at-home measures during the pandemic are helping to slow the spread of the virus, protect our health, and protect our hospitals, it's important to connect virtually to support children, families, and care providers of all kinds. In the spring and fall of 2020, a series of conversations were held with members of Frontiers of the Innovation community. Through these conversations, members shared stories of innovation and resilience as they sought to maintain services for families and innovate not only overnight, but by the minute!
Harvard has published some of their tips for this time of pandemic:
Meet families wherever they are. This is especially important for families that are dealing with the compounding effects of the pandemic, structural racism, and poverty.
Create time and space for families to tell you what they need, and engage with them in ways that are familiar to them.
Focus on shared humanity and learning together. Use this as an opportunity to think outside the box and try strategies that cannot be done in person.