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Welcome to Courageous Parents Network

CPN is a destination created by parents, for parents, to support, guide and strengthen families as they care for a seriously ill child. Here you will find wisdom from fellow parents and pediatric care providers to help you be the best parent you can be to your child and children—and get through each moment. Learn more about Courageous Parents Network.

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Make Informed Decisions

Make Informed Decisions

Keep Your Family Strong

Keep Your Family Strong

Learn from Providers and Other Parents

Learn from Providers and Other Parents

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Find Your way

Find your way

CPN content organized into learning experiences, by topic.

Spinal Fusion Decision-Making: for Parents

This pathway will help you:
  • Understand how scoliosis may affect your child
  • Understand your hopes and concerns and set expectations.
  • Explore the surgical options
  • Assess perioperative risk factors & set post-op expectations
  • Make the decision
  • Prepare for post-op and the transition home
  • and includes a downloadable Guide to walk you through the decision-making process

Anticipatory Grief

This pathway will help you:
  • Define anticipatory grief
  • Understand the role anticipatory grief has played in the lives of parents like you
  • Gain tools to cope with your own anticipatory grief

Understanding Baseline

This pathway will help you
  • Understand the concept of baseline and the role it plays in decision making.
  • Learn about how understanding baseline, and changes in it, can help you adapt your care goals and choices to achieve those goals.

The Siblings Experience

This pathway will help you:
  • Understand the sibling experience
  • Hear and See the common worries shared by other parents
  • Learn about coping strategies and tools others have used to help their other children, the siblings, cope with having a brother or sister with a life-threatening illness
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