Olivia J. B. Baxter
Care Specialist
Her Story
Olivia J. B. Baxter is a Family and Childcare Specialist with 20 years in family, child, and community care, education, and philanthropy. She has married her diverse experience and knowledge gained in the development of her multifarious background to engineer a unique practice of fostering enrichment, accessibility, and collaboration when working with individuals, families, youth, communities, and the people who care for them.
As a human development scholar, Olivia prioritizes continuous education, studying, researching, and observing how social enterprises impact the developments of people and communities. She's able to leverage her areas of study in Human Development and Family Studies, and specialized training to help people and institutions identify needs, create and access resources, and cultivate individual, family, and community wellness through personalized practices of care.
Below you'll find more information about Olivia's academic and professional background, and commitment to increasing awareness and access to resources that help us develop and maintain our individual and collective wellbeing in our homes and world around us.
Here you can view her Family and Childcare Philosophy
Her Bio
Olivia J.B. Baxter, a family and child care specialist, is a human development
scholar, specializing in the care of families, youth, and the people who serve them.
Olivia brings extensive clinical and academic expertise in the field of family and child-care, with a particular focus on family and child development and domestic workforce enrichment and regulation.
Prior to becoming a family and child-care specialist, Ms. Baxter was an early childhood educator, for private households and classrooms. She also served as the co- founder and director or programming with Philly Birth Project, a grass roots community aid organization that provided free educational resources for birth workers of color, bridging gaps between birthworkers, obstetric professionals, and
pregnant people reducing maternal and infant mortality rates by building community, increasing access to resources among black and POC populations in Philadelphia.
Olivia is a dedicated scholar of human development, with ongoing study of the physiological, biological, psychological, sociological, and economical developments of humans across the life span, focusing on what positively impacts family and youth development through the stages of life.
Ms. Baxter has a robust background in family and child care research and has contributed original investigations on a range of topics, including family inclusion, trauma-informed care, parent, youth, and community education, domestic
workforce standards, regulations, and labor laws. Her work reflects a strong commitment to advancing knowledge in both the home and community that serves the families within.
Ms. Baxter earned her associates degree in Human development and Family Studies through Pennsylvania State University, after completing the Holistic Birth Worker program with the Birth Institute, and becoming certified as a breastfeeding peer counselor by the Maternity Care coalition.
She completed her internal medicine internship and residency at Medstar Georgetown University/Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. She then pursued both clinical and research endocrinology fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, where she developed a strong foundation in research
and specialized endocrine clinical care.
With a passion for patient-centered care, multidisciplinary collaboration, and academic excellence, Dr. Wehbeh is poised to lead the UM SJMG - Diabetes and Endocrinology Center into its next chapter of growth and innovation.
Domestic Workforce
Advocacy and education in household employment.
Olivia's research heavily focuses on the benefits and outcomes of policy regulations within the domestic workforce.
20 years ago, when she entered the domestic industry, she was unaware of how, if at all, any labor laws applied to her employment status as a Nanny and family assistant. Over the years she learned domestic professionals were considered housheold employees, and therefore had the same rights to fair labor laws.
Overtime, families and professionals relied on her knowledge to become better informed themselves and feel confident in their understanding of employment and taxation laws, and how to manage their responsibilities of household employer and employee.
Today she works with employers, employees and organizations to identify, understand, enforce, and inform household employment labor laws.