Our Work

PArental Wellbeing is essential to pediatric healthcare

At The Breath Between, we design tools and resources that help parents find calm in both acute moments of crisis and through the prolonged stress that comes with parenting children with medical needs. This includes not only emotional supports, but also practical relief like meal vouchers, ensuring parents can care for themselves while caring for their child.

Explore below to learn more about how The Breath Between is advancing parental support, improving children’s psychological and physical health outcomes, and strengthening the hospital ecosystem.

Calming Kits

Evidence-based kits designed to bring stability in moments of stress. Each kit includes:

  • Aromatherapy intervention to help soothe the soul.

  • Journals with pens to empower parents to both reflect and actively participate in care with a space for notes and questions.

  • A QR code that will bring you (parents!) to a meditation library with meditations created specifically for parents of hospital involved children.

  • A meal voucher to your home hospital cafeteria.

Guided Meditations

Our meditations are tailored to the unique stressors of raising children with medical needs.

We are proud to be uniquely positioned as one of the few organizations developing meditations (informed clinically and by lived experience) designed specifically for the realities of pediatric hospitals. All guided meditations are recorded by a trained voice actor.

MEaL vouchers

At The Breath Between, we pride ourselves on understanding the full spectrum of the parent experience while inpatient (because we ARE parents that have been there!)

We understand that food for parents is not always available when you have a child inpatient (for financial reasons, not wanting to leave your child’s room etc.)

With this understanding - we have partnered with many of the cafeterias at hospitals that distribute our kits. Our goal is to be able to provide a meal voucher to every parent staying inpatient with their child.

From Pilot to National Standard

While our first priority is the launch of the Calming kits and guided meditations, The Breath Between is built with a wider vision. We are laying the foundation for a future where parental mental health and wellbeing is not viewed as “an extra”, but as a core component to their child’s healthcare.

Our long term goals include:

Building a national network of mental health providers trained specifically to work with families of hospitalized or chronically hospital involved children.

We aim to be able to support ongoing therapy for parents that have hospitalized and hospital involved children.

National Network of Mental Health Support

Community

Developing and hosting communities of parents that “get” the stress, overwhelm and joy through it all.

Expanding Evidenced Based Resources

Expanding our library of guided meditations and psychoeducational tools.

We are also in the beginning stages of providing a monthly support group for parents that are caring for a hospitalized or chronically hospital involved child. All support groups will be led by a social worker.