Empowered Moms

Emily Wachter has been providing mental health services to children and families for over then years, and switched to exclusively providing Early Intervention services a few years ago. Like Shanell, Emily is another person who specializes in development and behavior, but she works primarily with rural kids, and kids are only eligible for her services from birth to age three. Emily is also very different from Shanell in a lot of ways, so her perspective on parenting - both her personal experience and what she's observed in the field - is entirely unique from last week's, but very complementary. Emily talks a lot in her episode about the cyclical nature of generational issues like mental illness, poverty, and neglect, and how those cycles allow such issues to persist. Emily is in a unique position, along with all Early Interventionists, to enter a child's life at a developmentally significant time and have a positive impact on development that could potentially be the thing tha