About Us
Our respite care team
Our team at Nurturing Newborns supports and encourages the parent-child relationship through specialized care of the entire family.
About Susan
Our Leaders
Terri Kellogg
Terri Kellogg is the Financial Manager and Executive Assistant at Nurturing Newborns. Her responsibilities include billing, invoicing, managing funding and relationships with funding sources, and assisting Susan with day-to-day operations. Terri and her husband are the parents of 5 boys. In her free time, she enjoys baking, being outside and watching baseball.
Jolene Mutchler
Jolene Mutchler, MEd. supports the organization as the Respite Manager. In this role, she completes new family intake, supervises respite providers and fulfills grant development. Jolene has twenty years experience in early childhood supporting systems building across organizations and direct delivery of early childhood services. She is licensed in Arizona and Colorado as an Early Childhood Special Educator with both head Start classroom and early intervention home visitation experience. Jolene believes, "Full inclusion in life begins in early childhood!" She is the sibling of a brother with Down Syndrome and mother to a teen son. Jolene enjoys going to the beach in California, pilates, hiking, creating mixed media art and baking. She has been supporting Nurturing Newborns during our evolution and expansion since 2022.
Respite Care Providers
Nurturing Newborns, LLC currently has 11 respite care providers that work in the homes of families caring for an infant or toddler with delays, disabilities, serious illness, or complications of prematurity. They provide part-time support for parents and caregivers so that they can pause, practice self-care, and seek mental health support.
Respite Care Providers at Nurturing Newborns are experienced caregivers of infants and toddlers who receive extensive training in the use of “Facilitated Attuned Interaction” (the FAN). All respite providers are required to provide a fingerprint background check prior to providing respite care, and they receive weekly supervision.