When a client has a positive pregnancy test we encourage her to enroll in our Earn as You Learn program and we also highly recommend a mentor from the One by One Program. There are several reasons for our programs; however, the primary objective is to develop an ongoing relationship with our clients so that we can continue to empower them to make good decisions.
Just recently one of our client - I’ll call her Jennifer to protect her identity - came to the center to view videos and thereby earn points to redeem items in our resource closet. We have a variety of videos for first-time expectant moms and moms with children. Jennifer watched the video that provided instruction on toddler safety. This video contains information on topics like first aid kits, fevers, CPR review, seizures and choking. Jennifer watched the video and several days later came to the center to continue earning points. She told us how the information she has seen on the video helped her with an emergency situation with her one-year-old child. He was eating a hot dog and started to choke. She used the procedure demonstrated in the video to dislodge the hot dog. None of us could have envisioned her using that information so soon after watching the video and yet it may well have saved his life.
I’m thankful that Jennifer shared that incident because it gave me the opportunity to tell her to cut all food for toddlers into very small pieces to avoid a choking incident.
