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CHARITY SPOTLIGHT { giving back } ORGANIZATION Hushabye Nursery LEADERSHIP Co-Founder & Executive Director Tara Sundem Board President Brandon Clark ANNUAL BUDGET $3.6 million ORIGIN: As a neonatal nurse practitioner with more than 27 years of experience, Tara Sundem has worked with mothers and collaborated with community partners to improve outcomes for babies exposed prenatally to opioids. Sundem began operating Hushabye Nursery in 2017, providing pre- and post-natal education at community-based opioid treatment centers. Believing that every baby deserves the right to a healthy, supportive family and community, Sundem began collecting data and funding to create a new model and care setting with improved social and health outcomes for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome and their families. Today, Hushabye Nursery is a nurse-managed organization with nurse-leaders making up half of the senior leadership team. Together with a staff of 31 certified nurses, they bring their own experiences, ideas and insights to create nurse-led solutions, protocols and treatment approaches. The stigma of being pregnant and in treatment can be difficult, but a Hushabye mom said, “I felt hope because I used the services to remain sober.” FRONTDOORS MEDIA | 69 | NOV/DEC 2021 Hush-a-Bye, DON’T YOU CRY Helping people with substance-use disorders become better parents