These AStEPP Staff Meeting Training Packages provide everything you need for a short (under an hour) staff development activity that you can do with your entire Healthy Start or Home Visiting team during a staff meeting or other team meeting. Each package contains an audio or video presentation on the subject and questions for group discussion, along with links to web-based and print resources for further exploration of the topic.

 

Using Preconception and Interconception Education and Services to Help Prevent Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies

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This Healthy Start Staff Meeting Training Package provides everything you need for a short (30 minutes) staff development activity that you can do with your entire Healthy Start or Home Visiting team. The package has materials to facilitate a discussion on how preconception and/or interconception services are important and useful as a strategy for preventing alcohol- and drug-exposed pregnancies.

 

 

 

Perinatal Depression Screening, Support, and Referral to Treatment

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This Healthy Start Staff Meeting Training Package provides everything you need for a short (30 minutes) staff development activity that you can do with your entire Healthy Start or Home Visiting team. The package has materials to facilitate discussion on perinatal depression–its signs and symptoms, and on screening, referrals and other support provided by your program.

 

 

Addressing Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Native and Tribal Communities

Addressing FAS in Native and Tribal Communities

This Healthy Start Staff Meeting Training Package provides everything you need for a staff development activity (45 minutes) that you can do with your entire Healthy Start or Home Visiting team. The Package has materials to facilitate reflection, dialogue and learning around Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), the most severe of the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs).

 

 

The Importance of Trust as a Tool for the Disclosure of Substance Use During Pregnancy

The Importance of Trust as a Tool for the Disclosure of Substance Use During Pregnancy

This Healthy Start Staff Meeting Training Package provides everything you need for a staff development activity (40 minutes) that you can do with your entire Healthy Start or Home Visiting team. The Package has materials to facilitate reflection, dialogue and learning around working with participants who may be using substances during pregnancy, in a manner that instills respect and promotes trust and disclosure.

 

 

Social Determinants of Substance Use During Pregnancy

Social Determinants of Substance Use During Pregnancy

This Healthy Start Staff Meeting Training Package provides everything you need for a staff development activity (50 minutes) that you can do with your entire Healthy Start or Home Visiting team. The Package has materials to facilitate reflection, dialogue and learning around the social determinants of health. Specifically, this Package will look at the social determinants that affect substance use during pregnancy.

 

 

What I Wish For You: Community Health Workers’ Hopes for Their Healthy Start Clients

What I Wish for You: CHW's Hopes for their Healthy Start Clients

This Healthy Start Staff Meeting Training Package provides everything you need for a staff development activity (35 minutes) that you can do with your entire Healthy Start or Home Visiting team. The Package has materials to facilitate reflection, dialogue and learning around working with participants to set and achieve their goals around avoiding substance use during pregnancy and having healthy pregnancies overall.