Prevention first
Show up before a family is in crisis. A relationship, a cohort, and a screening that leads somewhere will change more trajectories than a pamphlet.
About
A trusted voice at the meeting place of family life and public health.
For more than twenty years I have worked beside families in the earliest — and most decisive — years of a child’s life.
Hello, I’m Camarell.
I am a community health worker in Houston, Texas, currently leading early childhood programming at Legacy Community Health — including Growing Great Minds, a cohort-based parent education and playgroup series for families with children from birth to age five.
My work sits in a simple conviction: children’s outcomes cannot be separated from the health, stress, and resources of the adults raising them. And good healthcare advice is unfinished until a family can actually carry it out at home.
Before this chapter, I spent more than a decade as a direct-entry midwife in rural, underserved communities internationally. That work taught me what prevention looks like when the clinic is far away and the village is the system. I still practice from that lesson.
I write and speak for practitioners, community organizations, funders, and families — translating developmental science into language that respects the week a parent is actually living.
Support with information
Parents do not fail instructions. Systems fail the last mile. Pair science with rides, language, peers, and time.
The adult is the intervention
When we take caregiver well-being seriously, we are already practicing child health.