The National Association of Neonatal Therapists (NANT) is the professional organization that serves neonatal occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists.
Our Vision
We aim to improve the quality of life and neurodevelopmental outcomes for babies who begin their lives in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) through the unique contributions of neonatal therapy.
Our Mission
We support neonatal therapists’ professional and personal development by providing highly focused continuing education, resources, standards, mentoring, and connection while advancing the specialty globally.
Caring Essentials Collaborative provides trauma-informed education, programs, and consultation grounded in Trauma-Informed Developmental Care and Caring Science. Offerings include the Trauma-Informed Professional (TIP) Certificate Program, NICU education and implementation support, leadership development, and reflective resources that strengthen relationships, dignity, and resilience for infants, families, and care teams.
Caring Essentials Collaborative is now the internationally recognized leader in trauma informed developmental care education for those who serve babies, children and their families across all settings.
The NIDCAP Federation International (NFI) improves the future for all infants in hospitals and their families with individualized, developmental, family-centered, research-based NIDCAP care.
Model and Impact
Based on the Synactive Model, our approach is rooted in each infant’s expectation for co-regulatory care and for a close, emotionally attuned and invested relationship.
Science
Over forty years, the practice of NIDCAP has been extensively researched. NIDCAP’s evidence-based caregiving approach consistently shows wide-reaching benefits for infants, families, and healthcare professionals.
Training & Certification
Education, training, consultation, and certification is available for newborn and infant intensive care and special care nursery settings towards effective delivery of NIDCAP care.
In partnership with the International Association of Infant Massage, our mission is to promote nurturing touch and communication through training, education, and research so that parents, caregivers, and children are loved, valued, and respected throughout the United States and the world community.
HMBANA believes in a world where all infants have access to human milk through the support of breastfeeding and the use of pasteurized donor human milk.
The Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) mobilizes the healing power of donor milk by accrediting nonprofit milk banks in the US and Canada and setting international guidelines for pasteurized donor human milk. Our members help mothers donate extra breast milk for use by fragile infants as medicine.
The mission of Prevent Blindness is to prevent blindness and preserve sight. Since our founding in 1908, we have championed eye health and safety by educating the public, advocating for equitable access to quality eyecare, promoting the early detection of vision problems, and supporting patients and their care partners.
Services: Patient education, policy advocacy, professional development, public awareness, children’s vision and eye health resources.
Embrace Global exists to ensure that no baby dies simply because they were born too small or too soon. We provide life-saving warmth to premature and low-birth-weight newborns by deploying portable, low-cost incubators designed for low-resource, crisis, and emergency settings. Through partnerships with local organizations, governments, and global health actors, we strengthen health systems so every baby has a chance to survive and thrive, no matter where they are born.
Services: Embrace Global provides life-saving incubators, delivers training to healthcare providers, strengthens neonatal health systems through local partnerships, and responds rapidly to humanitarian emergencies to protect the world’s most vulnerable newborns.
Courageous Parents Network (CPN) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2014 to orient, equip and empower families and others caring for a child with a serious medical condition.
CPN presents educational resources in an array of formats—video, audio story, downloadable guides, blogs, events and more—with a singular goal: to give parents confidence that they are being the best possible advocate for their child. Through this work and in partnership with clinicians, we seek to transform the care experience both delivered and received.
Services: Resources sources include video and audio interviews, educational guides, a parent-generated blog, and a clinician portal offering materials for use in self- and colleague education. Programming also includes a robust social media presence, monthly educational webinars and newsletters, and both live and virtual presentations to clinician audiences and patient organizations.
We support NICUs as they begin or strengthen Family-Centered Care in their units. Our guiding principle is equal partnership between Family Partners and healthcare professionals in everything we do.
Services: All of our organization’s offerings are free, including educational webinars, FCC Community Exchange sessions, quarterly newsletter publications, monthly FCC columns, and quality improvement opportunities.
M.E.N.D. is a Christian non-profit organization that reaches out to families who have lost a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death.
Services: We offer monthly in-person and online support groups, we host annual remembrance ceremonies, we publish a free bi-monthly magazine that is postal mailed to our subscribers, and we have several private social media groups.
At Tiny Transitions Therapy Consulting, they provide expert Occupational therapy and educational services designed to nurture infant and child development. Their family-centered approach focuses on empowering families and professionals with tailored strategies to support every step of a child’s growth. They believe that every child has the potential to thrive, and are available to guide each family through their unique developmental journey.
Services: provides in-home pediatric Occupational Therapy, infant feeding therapy, sensory processing support, caregiver coaching, and NICU follow-up services for premature infants, medically complex children, and families throughout Houston, Montrose, River Oaks, The Heights, and surrounding communities.
Boost Therapeutic Innovations develops evidence-based rehabilitation solutions that expand movement opportunities for children with significant mobility limitations, beginning in the earliest stages of life. By partnering with families and therapists, we bridge gaps in pediatric rehabilitation and support meaningful movement from hospital to home and community.
Services: The GiggleFIT™ family of Therapeutic Play Gyms provides adaptable movement tools from birth through adolescence. GiggleFIT™ NEO supports early movement beginning in the NICU, while Hospital2Home extends familiar movement opportunities beyond discharge—helping therapists and families create continuity across hospital, home, and community settings.