Janet Groce-Fields is a HealthySteps Specialist at Cone Family Medicine Center in Guilford County, North Carolina. She has more than 35 years of experience partnering with families to build their capacities for understanding children's development and identify meaningful strategies to foster lifelong learning and wellbeing. Her work has focused on supporting families with young children with developmental differences. Janet believes that building rapport and strong relationships with families is central to effective family support. Her experiences working with families from varied cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds enables her to support families by recognizing their unique strengths and helping them identify and fulfill their goals for their child and family through their everyday activities and routines. Janet also serves as an adult educator, having taught early childhood education and family support courses at the community college and university level, and currently leads physician didactic sessions within the medical practice as part of her HealthySteps role. She received her undergraduate degree from North Carolina A&T and an M.Ed. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.