HealthySteps Family Advisors 2021-2022
Meet Our Family Advisors
HealthySteps Family Advisors provide important feedback on their experience to enhance our program for all families.
Resa Bates
My name is Teresa Bates. I live in Brooklyn, New York, and my family participates in the HealthySteps Program at Brookdale Family Care Center. We have been a HealthySteps family for four years. What I like most about HealthySteps is the unlimited amount of support and encouragement my family gets. I look forward to being a HealthySteps Family Advisory Group Member, I will get the opportunity to use my communication skills to help make the program stronger for future families that will participate in HealthySteps Program.
Liz Foley
My name is Liz. I live in Brooklyn, NY, and my family participates in the HealthySteps program at the Community Healthcare Network of Crown Heights. We have been a HealthySteps family for 4 months (since our son was born). What I like most about HealthySteps is having a developmental specialist I can call with questions. I look forward to being a HealthySteps Family Advisory Group Member because it's great to be in contact with other parents and to support such a helpful organization.
Shamyra King
My name is Shamyra King and I live in Brooklyn, NY, and my family participates in the HealthySteps program at the Brookdale Family Care Center location. We have been a HealthySteps family for 5 years. What I like most about HealthySteps is that when I take my children to the clinic, there is a sense of community and closeness I get from the care team with HealthySteps. HealthySteps has helped my family grow and has been a pivotal support system for myself and my two girls. HealthySteps is family to us. I look forward to being a HealthySteps Family Advisory Group Member because I can now become a part of the amazing support system for other families like mine. I love being able to provide support and loving care to my community members and being a Family Advisor ties directly into what I believe my purpose is here on earth. I eagerly look forward to this experience.
Mayra “Maya” Martinez-Shaw
My name is Mayra (Maya) Martinez-Shaw and my family participates in the HealthySteps program at Wake Forest Baptist Health Pediatrics Quaker Lane in High Point, NC. We have been a HealthySteps family for the last 3 years. What I like most about Healthy Steps is the support, help, and knowledge that we as a family have been able to receive. I look forward to being a HealthySteps Family Advisory Group Member because it will allow me to connect with other moms/parents who are also benefiting from the program, and also give me new tools I can use as both an educator and mom.
Alondra Miranda-Herrera
My name is Alondra Miranda-Herrera. I live in Thousand Palms, California, and my family participated in the HealthySteps program at Borrego Health Desert Hot Springs. We have been a HealthySteps family for 1 year and 3 months. What I like most about HealthySteps is that their support and communication are unconditional. I look forward to being a HealthySteps Family Advisory Group Member because I want other family members to be part of the HealthySteps program so that it can continue to grow and receive the support that our Desert Hot Springs location has to offer to the community.
Erica McNeil
My name is Erica McNeil. I live in Greensboro, NC, and my family participates in the HealthySteps program at the Greensboro Pediatricians location. We have been a HealthySteps family for more than 3 years. What I like most about HealthySteps is the commitment to providing resources and education, the genuine warmth shown to be an active part of my family, in addition to the care and concern for my family, not just for the child enrolled in the HealthySteps program. It makes me eager to serve! I look forward to being a HealthySteps Family Advisory Group Member because I know that other families would absolutely benefit from this and the impact that this program has on children and families is both beneficial and rewarding. As a result, I feel that this then becomes my reasonable service, as an act of gratitude, as well as my desire to see more and more children and families learn to take ‘HealthySteps’ towards a healthier mental, physical, and emotional lifestyle. Quite honestly, to know an opportunity exists to be part of such an “AHHHmazing” experience and not at least attempt to provide feedback/input would be like saying I could’ve done without HealthySteps and that just simply is NOT true!
Jennifer Pannone
My name is Jennifer Pannone. I live in Schenectady, NY. My family participates in the HealthySteps program at Ellis Pediatrics. We have been a HealthySteps family for 14 months since my baby's birth. What I like most about HealthySteps is the support and resources offered. I look forward to being a HealthySteps Advisory Group Member. I can bring my experience and knowledge to the program. I look forward to sharing this with other Family Advisory Group members.
Shakoa Sidoti
My name is Shakoa Sidoti. I live in Schenectady, NY and my family participates in the HealthySteps Program at Ellis Pediatrics. I enrolled in HealthySteps in February 2021. What I like most about HealthySteps is the personalization that comes with the program and the support one truly feels by being a part of the program. I look forward to being a HealthySteps Family Advisory Group Member because it strengthens our community and families. It is crucial that we get the exposure out there that there is help and support.
