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I’m just going to compile a list in this post over time about the different programs that have begun around the country, maybe world wide. They may have ideas that may work here, and why not have them all in one place?
Wisconsin- Perinatal Foundation, Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (website)
Two team members presented “Pebbles in a Pond: The Wisconsin Experience” at the 2005 Postpartum Support International conference, in San Jose, CA. Their website link above leads to their Program Initiative Phases page. Also on that page are links to information about Postpartum Depression, Perinatal Depression Resources, PMD and the Workplace, plus Screening Tools.
Also included are stories from mothers of various backgrounds–African American, Native American, Amish, Hmong, Latina and one of unspecified cultural background. Plus there’s a quiz related to cultural competence, related to the stories. Perinatal Depression Resources
California-Santa Barbara County First 5 (website)
Postpartum Support International founder, Jane Honikman and two others presented the Postpartum Depression/Attachment Strategic Plan (2006) in a well-attended break-out session at the 2008 PSI Conference in Houston, TX. They did a very thorough plan, and the three presenters fascinated the audience. Santa Barbara and counties are far more remote than I’d ever realized, even with having driven through Santa Barbara and up the coast.
The Strategic Plan is near the bottom third of the list on the website, and linked, here.
Pennsylvania-Pennsylvania Perinatal Partnership
Postpartum Progress mentioned this here, which is what prompted me to write this whole post. She’s also on my Blog Role.
This is a Powerpoint about the process of creating a partnership between Healthy Start and the Title V programs in Pennsylvania. And a write up here by the Maternal and Child Health Branch, Using Managed Care Contracts to Promote Child Health.
That’s it for today. More will be added on this post later.
8/1/08 I’ve added a new Page up top, “Programs” and copied this post to it. That’s where I will update with new information about programs and ideas from other places, as I find them.
Well. On Monday the Senate killed the MOTHERS Act. 52-40. 60 votes were needed. Along with the MOTHERS Act, three dozen other bills met the same fate, all as part of the “Advancing America’s Priorities Act”.
A yes vote, Republicans said, was a vote to shift from the debate in progress over ways to help relieve the burden of soaring gas prices.
Yep, Republicans apparently referred to the Act as a “trick” to take the focus away from “the number one domestic issue facing our nation.”
There you go Hawaii moms. Thank goodness providers around here aren’t waiting to be told to screen new mothers for PPD, and have taken this important task on themselves. Despite Hawaii’s high gas prices.
Read more in the Washington Post article, GOP points to cost, helps kill bill to aid victims.
