Rocky Hill Parent Peer Specialists LLC

My Why!

Michelle Uetz has been an educator since 2001. She now uses her education, personal, and family experience, to advocate for families who struggle with mental illness. Michelle has experienced depression and anxiety herself, and learned to manage it. She has taught students with emotional and behavioral disabilities. Michelle helped her sister through her struggles with mental illness, and domestic violence, which ultimately lead to her sister's su***de in 2016. Later in 2016, Michelle and her husband obtained guardianship her cousin’s two girls at the ages of 13 and 8. These girls joined their family of three boys. The girls were soon diagnosed with mental illness from the trauma that they had experienced in early childhood. While the girls have moved on to other placement she and her husband learned a great deal about parenting children who have a history of trauma with mental illness and substance use issues. Michelle has made it her mission to support, educate, and advocate for parents who are struggling to raise a child with mental illness and/or substance use issues. She helps parents in their homes, with school issues, in crisis, and in finding the resources they need. As this business grows and other Certified Parent Peer Specialists join Michelle in this mission they will have the same passion and vision to help parents and children. Michelle also works to create awareness of mental illness, su***de, domestic violence, healthy relationships, and sexuality.