Uplifting Austin Families
Loving Parents envisions a community of connected, loving, and resourced families in Austin. We see a community where parents are cared for and have what they need to be healthy, and we see the beautiful impact that loving parenting has on multiple generations of children.
We seek to uplift families by meeting parents where they are, by supporting them in a way that is holistic, trauma-informed, and connected, and by creating communities where parents find belonging.
When parents struggle with resources, children are more likely to suffer from adverse outcomes in physical and mental health, have lower performance in school, and struggle with emotional and social development.
Loving Parents is an organization focused on empowerment.
Our goal is to change the world in a generation by empowering parents with the resources needed to raise their children to thrive. We work with community partners toward this goal and contribute by offering the following projects.
Group Peer Support for Parents
We believe Connected Community is vital to the health of humans. A Connected Community is one where we are showing up as authentic humans and expect others to do the same. Loving Parents offers group peer support for parents in Austin to show up as they are and both receive and offer support.
One on One Peer Support
Loving Parents offers mental health peer support to parents in the Austin community. Peer support is a practice where a person with lived experience in mental health recovery supports another adult going through their own mental health struggles. This support is based on a shared understanding between the individuals, is recovery-oriented, person-centered, relationship-focused, and trauma-informed, with a foundation of respect and mutual empowerment between people who have experienced similar circumstances.
Movement and Mindfulness
Loving Parents has a holistic and body-centered focus to the work that we do. We believe our bodies hold the stories of our lives and the keys to healing. Movement is medicine. We offer movement and mindfulness classes and videos to practice on your own time.
"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."
— Margaret J. Wheatley