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We Saved You a Seat
by Oklahoma Family Network
Oklahoma Family Network focuses on supporting families of children and youth with special needs via emotional support, resource navigation, and ensuring quality healthcare for all children and families through strong and effective family/professional partnerships.
Episodes
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Suicide Prevention and Maternal Mental Health Support
When your best friend experiences postpartum psychosis and you are unable to stop the absolute worst from happening, you share your story, ideas, and support to others in an attempt to help others understand and know the difference between baby blues and other more serious perinatal mood and...
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ADHD: It's a Brain Thing, with Lauren Alvarez, MA
Lauren Alvarez, M.A. helps us look at great information from experts in the field of neuroscience and ADHD to build a better understanding of what is going on in the ADHD brain and effective strategies for individuals, parents and schools to help manage the brain and behaviors to benefit all...
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Sam, The I Can Man Foundation Interview from Toolbox Tuesday (8-2026)
Sam The I Can Man Foundation | Grant Giving Non-Profit Featuring the Sam, The I Can Man Foundation Learn about: Services and Opportunities offered by the Sam, The I Can Man Foundation Honor the life of Sam “The I Can Man” by giving people with differing abilities the opportunity to realize they…
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Maternal Health with Salena King-Coughlin (06) - Wrap Up and Updates
Welcome to the sixth and final release of my conversation with Salena King-Coughlin. As an educator and researcher, Salena digs into the numbers of Oklahoma families who are tied to maternal morbidity. She shares ideas and additional ways to plan or advocate when you truly feel like you have...
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Maternal Health with Salena King-Coughlin (05) - Postpartum Care Part Two
Part five of Salena’s story continues to focus on her postpartum journey of advocacy, CT scans, readmission, and survival. Thank you for listening to one story that represents many more. It’s not easy to walk back through the trauma of what happened, and we are incredibly grateful that Salena…
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Maternal Health with Salena King-Coughlin (04) - Postpartum Care Part One
Welcome to part four of my conversation with Salena King-Coughlin. In today’s episode, we begin our discussion on the postpartum experience and care Salena had. Salena has walked us through her pregnancy, delivery, NICU, and now we begin hearing about what it was like for her in the period of...
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Maternal Health with Salena King-Coughlin (03) - NICU
Welcome back for part three with Salena King-Coughlin. If you haven't had the opportunity to listen to parts one and two, we hope you'll go back and listen to catch up on how we got here. Salena's daughter, Sophia, landed in NICU, and this episode walks us through the emotional stress of this...
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Maternal Health with Salena King-Coughlin (02) - Delivery Chaos
We continue our conversation with Salena King-Coughlin as she shares details about her delivery and some of the chaos that ensues. She shares ways she advocated for herself and her baby, as well as some moments that are hard for many to comprehend.
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Maternal Health with Salena King-Coughlin (01) - Pregnancy and Delivery
Salena King-Coughlin is mom to Sophia and wife to Tyler. She has her PhD, Infant Mental Health Endorsement, is a Certified Family Life Educator, and at the time of our recording was pursuing her graduate certificate in public health. Her journey through pregnancy, delivery, NICU, and recovery is...
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Exception to the Rule with Meske Owens, Part Three
Today we’re diving into an issue which is important to Meske and affects thousands of Oklahoma families, though it doesn’t always get the attention it deserves: early developmental screenings. Meske provided We Saved You A Seat with lots of statistics: 65% of Oklahoma children between 9 and 35...
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Exception to the Rule with Meske Owens, Part Two
If there is a resource out there, there's a good chance Meske has found it. Meske has been trained in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), Partners in Policymaking (PIP), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Circle of Security and so many others. In this episode, Meske provides us with…
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Exception to the Rule with Meske Owens, Part One
Meet Meske!! Meske will provide a voice from the mom, advocate, and survivor perspective at an interim study designed to highlight the need to improve access to developmental screenings to Oklahoma's youngest children, and we want you to know her and understand the why behind her passion. This is...
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Kidney Stones, Sepsis, and Maternal Health Outcomes
Darrian Williams, a mom to two precious girls, shares with us her chaotic experience tied to giving birth to her first daughter. The State Maternal Health Innovation (MHI) Program is one of many complementary investments made to improve maternal health across the nation. Oklahoma’s State MHI...
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Lupus, PPROM, Prematurity and Maternal Health Outcomes
The State Maternal Health Innovation Program is one of many complementary investments made to improve maternal health across the nation. Oklahoma’s State Maternal Health Innovation Program has partnered with Oklahoma Family Network to help improve maternal health by allowing OFN to share family...
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Postpartum Cardiomyopathy and Maternal Health Outcomes
The State Maternal Health Innovation Program is one of many complementary investments made to improve maternal health across the nation. Oklahoma’s State Maternal Health Innovation Program has partnered with Oklahoma Family Network to help improve maternal health by allowing OFN to share family...
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Hydrocephalous, Healing, and Hope: Eliza's Story - Episode Two (Delivery and NICU)
Robyn and her family have the unique opportunity to highlight and honor two big topics in September. September is both Hydrocephalus Awareness Month and NICU Awareness Month, and this sweet family helped bring conversation and education to both subjects in our podcast release today. Birth trauma...
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Hydrocephalous, Healing, and Hope: Eliza's Story - Episode One (Diagnosis)
Welcome September and Hydrocephalus Awareness Month! Oklahoma Family Networked partnered with the sweetest mom to share her experience with her daughter's diagnosis of Hydrocephalus in utero. Throughout the month, we will share pieces of her journey through diagnosis, delivery, NICU stay,...
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The Samargis Family (Part Two) - Celebrating and Honoring Deaf-Blind Awareness Month
Thank you for joining us for the second episode with guests Matt and Laura Samargis, as we continue to highlight and honor this incredible family during Deaf-Blind Awareness Month. (You can listen here to Episode One) In this episode, Matt and Laura share impactful moments and resources for…
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The Samargis Family - Celebrating and Honoring Deaf-Blind Awareness Month
Matt and Laura's Samargis, a family from rural Oklahoma share with us today some of their journey as parents who have a child in the deaf-blind community. Today we get a glimpse into their incredibly busy lives and I know you will enjoy hearing their unique testimony and learning more from them....
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Deaf-Blind Awareness Month (June) with Lisa Lawter from Oklahoma Deaf Blind Project
As we honor and celebrate Deaf-Blind Awareness Month, I'm excited for people to hear from Lisa Lawter with the Oklahoma Deaf-Blind Technical Assistance Program. Lisa is passionate about helping and serving families who have children with unique medical needs, and this is a resource we want to...
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Toolbox Tuesday with Lora Roberts and Sibshops
Lora Roberts, Eastern Regional Coordinator for Oklahoma Family Network, helps us understand Sibshops for brothers and sisters who have a sibling with special needs. She shares more about her Tulsa Sibshops experience and what families can expect when they bring their child.
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Creating Healthy Boundaries with Lauren Alvarez
Understanding healthy boundaries in our relationships is essential to taking care of ourselves. Join us for a class as we work through misconceptions and proven strategies that help you set healthy boundaries for yourself to help in all of your relationships. If you'd like to watch the training…
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Oklahoma Rare - Celebrating Rare Disease Day with Sky Collins
Celebrating Rare Disease Day with double the podcast release today! As we continue to celebrate and honor the day set aside to bring awareness to our incredible families with a rare diagnosis, I want to thank Sky Collins for sharing in our previous release about Oklahoma Rare. She continues on to...
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Oklahoma Rare - Celebrating Rare Disease Day with Co-Founder Sky Collins
Every year, on the last day of February, the world comes together to recognize Rare Disease Day—a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness for rare diseases and the millions of people affected by them. Today, We Saved You A Seat is incredibly honored to share a few things Oklahoma is…
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Setting Goals for the New Year with Lauren Alvarez
In this presentation, we will discuss how to set goals for positive change for all ages while still having a self-compassion focus. This can help us break the pattern of shame about things we want to change and instead apply simple but profound principles for effective growth. If you would like…
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The Power of Connecting with Kids with Lauren Alvarez
Sometimes we are so focused on behavior that we don't realize how powerful purposeful relationships can be in responding to negative behavior and preventing things from ever happening. We will look at the work of Dr. Lori Desautels and her book Connections over Compliance to learn brain-based...
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Heart Health in Pregnancy and After with Chrissy Cleary (Part 2)
Welcome to National Wear Red Day 2025! After finally getting a diagnosis of Postpartum Cardiomyopathy, Chrissy learns what her future looks like and shares with us how she processed this unexpected diagnosis and what she did to survive as a mom who needed lots of help from doctors, family, and...
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Heart Health in Pregnancy and After with Chrissy Cleary (Part 1)
On December 11th, 2024 Chrissy Cleary proudly announced, "awww my Heart Failure is 18 - an adult." Chrissy Cleary is mom to three children, and after she delivered her 3rd baby, she developed some scary symptoms that some medical professionals identified as "normal" and/or wrote off as anxiety.…
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Taking Care of the Caregiver/Compassion Fatigue with Lauren Alvarez
Being a parent or a caregiver can be exhausting. We can become so overwhelmed by the never-ending list of things to do that we lose sight of taking care of ourselves and can experience burnout. Together we will complete a survey of how we are doing with self-care and build a practical plan to…
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Trauma and Big Feelings with Lauren Alvarez
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World Down Syndrome Day Part Two - with Charity Cook and Cassie
Happy World Down Syndrome Day (3/21)!! World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), March 21st, is a global awareness day officially observed by the United Nations since 2012. This day encourages conversation and education to help end the stereotypes and encourage inclusion. Today, Carter's Mom and Sister...
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World Down Syndrome Day Part One - With Charity Cook and Cassie
Tomorrow is World Down Syndrome Day, and TODAY we want you to meet Carter and his family in our first release of our two-part series highlighting and celebrating those with Down Syndrome. Today's conversation walks you through some of the emotional moments tied to learning Carter would have Down...
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Rare Syndrome Awareness (CdLS) with Charles Moore - Episode 04
Oklahoma Family Network is thankful to have you join us today for the final release in this series and conversation with Charles, to help us celebrate what makes Charles III unique as we celebrate Rare Day today!!! You will hear Charles brag on his daughter Zion and speak to the sibling...
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Rare Syndrome Awareness (CdLS) with Charles Moore - Episode 03
Welcome to the 3rd episode of our conversation with Charles. We continue to bring education and support to others leading up to February 29, where we celebrate the uniqueness of being rare! (rarediseaseday.org). Today we discuss Charles III's transition from Little Lighthouse into public school…
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Rare Syndrome Awareness (CdLS) with Charles Moore - Episode 02
Thank you for joining us for episode 2 (of 4) with Charles Moore as we discuss some of the most impactful people in his life as he began the advocacy journey on behalf of his son, Charles III. Today's episode highlights his quest to learn as much as he can about Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS),...
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Rare Syndrome Awareness (CdLS) with Charles Moore - Episode 01
Oklahoma Family Network's We Saved You A Seat had the incredible privilege to sit down with Charles Moore. Our fun, education, and meaningful conversation will be released fully in 4 separate episodes as we prepare to celebrate and honor the uniqueness of 300 million people worldwide who live…
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Mindful Self-Compassion with Lauren Alvarez
Are you being kind to yourself? Lauren Alvarez walks us through Mindful Self-Compassion and some amazing training she provided to Oklahoma Family Network families. I know you will be encouraged by her words and knowledge. Lauren introduces us to a self-compassion test, and we encourage you to…
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2023 Prematurity Awareness Month with Kayla Pitts, Mom of 26-Week’er - Part Three
Welcome to Prematurity Awareness Month and World Prematurity Day! Prematurity Awareness Month is observed every November, with World Prematurity Day on November 17th, to raise awareness of preterm birth and the concerns of preterm babies and their families worldwide. An estimated 15 million…
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2023 Prematurity Awareness Month with Kayla Pitts, Mom of 26-Week’er - Part Two
Thank you for joining us for part two of Kayla's journey with premature birth as she shares her experience where she highlights some very specific emotions and experiences tied to Zetta's birth.
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2023 Prematurity Awareness Month with Kayla Pitts, Mom of 26-Week’er - Part One
Welcome to Prematurity Awareness Month! Prematurity Awareness Month is observed every November, with World Prematurity Day on 17 November, to raise awareness of preterm birth and the concerns of preterm babies and their families worldwide. An estimated 15 million babies around the world are born...
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Andrew Lyon’s Lived Experience with ALL
The Author of Leon The Brave Little Lion joins us today to discuss how his experiences with childhood cancer gave him a purpose and vision to support others who are part of his childhood cancer circle. OFN's conversation with Andrew will leave you feeling encouraged, educated, and inspired to…
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B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Journey (Part Three) with Jade Campbell
Part three of our conversation with Jade shares the importance and impact that local non-profits have on families. You will hear Jade share just a little about some organizations that made big impacts on their family: The Kids Korral, KClub, Wyatt's Wings, and Art with Heart are a few examples of...
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B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Journey (Part Two) with Jade Campbell
Part two of We Saved You A Seat's conversation with Jade highlights the amazing community Jade and her family have surrounding them. Hearing how Jade's family, friends, and community surrounded and supported Haddie will give you ideas and inspire you to help others impacted by childhood cancer.
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B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Journey with Jade Campbell
Today you have the incredible opportunity to meet Jade Campbell and hear pieces of their daughter's journey and diagnosis of B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. As we continue to honor families who have experienced or are experiencing the childhood cancer journey, today we are reminded to...
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia (Part 2) - Mackenzie Asher’s Journey - with her dad, Jayson Asher
The Mack Impact | The Mack Impact This release is one that openly shares and discusses the truth of pediatric oncology and the grief, no family should ever have to experience. It is important to help raise awareness, support, and educate our community that when this happens to a friend of the...
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia (Part 1) - Mackenzie Asher’s Journey - with her dad, Jayson Asher
We are well aware of the reasons people don't discuss pediatric cancer... It's hard... It's hard to think about. It's hard to think about any child experiencing cancer. It's hard to think about the possibility of your child experiencing cancer. We can become overwhelmed with grief and sadness as…
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Long Tran with FAITH KIDS for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Our guest today is Long Tran with F.A.I.T.H. KIDS, Inc. (https://faithkids10.org/). Long, with his wife, Mary, started a 501c3 nonprofit organization, after their family lived through the devastating experience of their oldest having leukemia to help others. In today's podcast, you will hear…
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Creative Consequences with Lauren Alvarez
Lauren talks us through logical consequences, the energy drain, and working through different perspectives of discipline and why we do what we do as parents.
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Healing Injured Parents with Jeremy Elledge
Participants will explore what it means to accept, love, and support our children, as well as how we came to arrive at our own norms for parenting and family. Participants will have brief opportunities to identify motivations and goals, and areas for possible growth, because it can always be better.
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Skill Building Workshop to Address Teen Substance Use
This workshop is designed to help you understand why your teen may be using substances and what you can do to help them make better choices. Among other skills you'll learn how to have better conversations with your child and use behavior management techniques that can make a big difference....
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Oklahoma Family Network focuses on supporting families of children and youth with special needs via emotional support, resource navigation, and ensuring quality healthcare for all children and families through strong and effective family/professional partnerships.
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