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SPAN’s Deepa Srinivasavaradan Receives Merle McPherson Award from the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

SPAN Parent Advocacy Network congratulates Deepa Srinivasavaradan, the CDC’s “Learn the Signs. Act Early.” Ambassador to NJ, for being nominated and selected as the recipient of the 2020 Merle McPherson Award for “exemplary contributions to further family/professional collaboration within state Title V programs and the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP).” Ms. Srinivasavaradan directs SPAN’s NJ’s Early Childhood Initiatives project, which celebrates children’s development and improves early identification. The goal of the project is to get children and families the services and support they need by addressing the needs of parents, parents-to-be, infants, and young children; and focusing on parent leadership development.

Autin testifies before Health Subcommittee of House Committee on Energy and Commerce

SPAN Executive Co-Director, Diana Autin, testified before the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on June 4, 2019. SPAN has played a vital role in boosting the need for F2Fs and recognizes that, for New Jersey, it is due to the hard work...

The New Jersey Deaf Mentor Program @ Kidz Village

The New Jersey Deaf Mentor Program’s Kick-Off Event took place on Saturday, June 8th at Kidz Village in Woodbridge. Families with a Deaf or hard of hearing child attended the event to meet New Jersey’s Deaf Mentors. The Event provided the families the...

Diana Autin’s comments in NJ Spotlight, May 28, 2019

Read SPAN Executive Co-Director Diana Autin’s comments in the May 28, 2019 NJ Spotlight article: “Feds Order NJ to Come up with Better Way to Resolve Special-Ed Disputes” “The state has admitted this is a problem for a long time, and there have been...

Diana Autin speaks on new legislation to reauthorize the Family to Family Health Information Centers

Legislation to reauthorize the Family to Family Health Information Centers (F2Fs) for the next five years has been introduced with bipartisan support in both the US Senate (by Senators Menendez from NJ, member of the Finance Committee, and Grassley from IA, chair of...

SPAN Statement on the Stoneman Douglas High School Mass Shooting in Parkland, FL

In the wake of the latest tragedy out of Florida, all at SPAN—each of us a parent, child, sibling, or friend—deeply mourn the February 14th murder of 17 students and teachers by a young man with legal access to a military-grade gun. Seventeen people. Fourteen...