Join us for a member’s only webinar on the impact of providers on family engagement in early intervention. Sadia Batool, born and raised in Dubai is a physician by qualification with a current focus on supporting families and professionals in the Early Childhood Systems. Her passion for Early Childhood systems stems from her personal experience of receiving life-changing Early Intervention services for her daughter. She is a recipient of several Family Leadership trainings in Pennsylvania and at the national level. Sadia is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning Policy Fellowship and the 2023 National Prenatal to Three Leaders Fellowship from the Rockwood Leadership Institute. She currently serves as a family and professional representative on a variety of local, state-wide, and national organizations serving families and children including serving as the Governor appointed parent Co-chair to the Pennsylvania State Interagency Coordinating council.
Sadia is committed to supporting families navigate the system of services and enhancing authentic family engagement and leadership policies, practices, and procedures across maternal and early childhood systems. In 2021, she joined the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning as the Early Childhood Family Lead for Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) Health Integration Prenatal-to-age Three Project, a Federal grant Pennsylvania received from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to focus on cross-sector collaboration and partnership, health system transformation, state-level policy and fiscal innovation, family leadership, and advancing equity.