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Tiny Miracles Foundation offers peer mentoring and practical help to Connecticut families after premature births
Summary
Tina Tyson, executive director of the Tiny Miracles Foundation, describes a 20-year-old peer mentoring program that matches experienced NICU parents with families of premature infants and provides emotional, financial and material supports; November is Prematurity Awareness Month.
Tina Tyson, executive director of the Tiny Miracles Foundation, said the Connecticut nonprofit helps families with babies in neonatal intensive care units by providing peer-based emotional support, material items and limited financial assistance.
"1 in 10 babies is born premature," Tyson said, describing the scale of need the organization encounters. She said Tiny Miracles' core program pairs parents who have experienced the NICU with families new to that…
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