Parent Resource Advisors – Lauren Meltzer and Carmen O’Shea
You’ve learned that your child needs additional support to thrive at school, at home, or out in the world. You want to help, but you’re not sure where to start. That’s where we come in. With compassion and respect for your unique situation, Parent Resource Advisors listen, share information, and collaborate with you to navigate Bay Area resources and build a concrete plan. We have experience with ADHD, autism, giftedness/twice exceptionality, gender dysphoria and learning differences.
WE OFFER A HELPING HAND SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO FIND YOUR PATH ALONE.
OUR STORY
Lauren and Carmen met through mutual friends. We bonded over raising neurologically diverse children. The experience of our children processing the world in a different way than most other children (whether because of ADHD, dyslexia, giftedness, 2E, gender creativity, etc.) felt isolating. We wanted to help our kids feel successful and achieve their potential.
What we both discovered was that here in the Bay Area there’s an overwhelming amount of resources, but they’re difficult to navigate. There are waiting lists. There are doctors and therapists and support groups and online groups, and nobody to put it all together for you. It’s difficult to understand where to start. Many parents must reinvent the wheel to figure out the best path for their child, in a process that can be exhausting and lonely.
With a collective background in HR, executive leadership, life coaching, research, communications, and plain old wisdom hard-won from our own journeys, we began to wonder how we might serve as pathfinders for fellow parents, since we are living through the same experiences ourselves.
Not to replace professional service providers, but instead to help parents get their bearings and focus on the first few steps, to provide resources, and to help with navigating the roller coaster of emotions. PRA was born from a desire to share our learning with other parents like you, in the process making it a little easier to find courage to begin your own journey.
If you need to find support and resources for your child with learning, attention or social differences; sensory challenges; or gender differences, we can help.
Lauren Meltzer
I’m a Parent Coach helping parents with Neurodiverse kids. I help parents who want support around communication, routines, big emotions and high sensitivity and school placement. I have “Free Fridays”, where I give parents 15 minutes to talk through a challenge. Feel free to book a Zoom slot with me here: https://lnkd.in/g8fbZrmW
CALL
Lauren Meltzer: 415.235.5798
Carmen O’Shea: 650.290.3586