The Only Miami-Dade Nonprofit Catching NICU Families Before They Fall | Miami Autism Dad

Miami Autism Dad Victor Antunez interviews Elizabeth Simonton, Co-Founder and CEO of ICU baby, the only organization in Miami-Dade County that comprehensively supports NICU families. The conversation starts in a chair next to her son’s NICU bed in 2014 and traces what she saw that she couldn’t unsee, and how that became a nonprofit serving NICU families across South Florida with parent mentors, NICU Packs, catered meals at the bedside, transportation stipends for families who can’t afford the gas to reach their baby, education resources in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole, and bereavement …

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