Episode 28: The Journey of Creating Kits of Hope to Address Childhood Trauma with Dr. Hokehe Effiong
Funding Your Healthcare Vision
English - May 13, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Kids & Family Parenting health equity physician nurse entrepreneurship healthcare funding nonprofit medical practice private practice Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this week's episode of the Melanin, Medicine & Motherhood podcast, we speak with Dr Hokehe Effiong is a board certified pediatrician also known as The Thrive strategist, wife and mother of three children, who is passionate about the care of children.
She advocates for children in foster care and is the founder of Kits of Hope, 501 (c) 3 Organization, that shares love and hope by providing children going into foster care with bags filled with comfort and essential items.
As the CEO of ACEs2Thriving, LLC, she speaks to parents where they spend most of their time, at work about the effects of early childhood traumatic events and provides strategies to thrive, because she firmly believes that if parents heal and learn to thrive, then their children will thrive as well. She helps companies and agencies understand the effects of adverse childhood events on worker performance and how they can elevate their most valuable resource- people.
In this episode, we discuss:
How to see a problem and cultivate a solution without burning out.
The cycle of how childhood adversity leads to adult problems and why trauma needs to be addressed as early as possible
We discuss the power of thoughts and believing in yourself to keep you motivated to do new things
Building a team to ensure that your vision is scaleable and sustainable.
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