TA & Support Center COVID-19 Events & Offerings
Webinar Recordings
- Beyond COVID-19: Breastfeeding Webinar Series
- To support Healthy Start grantees in providing breastfeeding support and meeting the two breastfeeding benchmarks, the Healthy Start TA & Support Center (TASC) launched a three-part Beyond COVID-19: Breastfeeding Webinar Series that ran from November 2021 through January 2022. The goal of this webinar series is to enhance and strengthen Healthy Start grantees’ capacity to meet their client’s breastfeeding needs as we continue to navigate the changing landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic. The series featured Cathy Carothers, IBCLC, FILCA, of Every Mother, Inc, who facilitated the previous TASC’s COVID-19 & Breastfeeding Webinar Series. Webinar topics included: Building Community Partnerships to Promote and Support Breastfeeding, Demystifying the Secrets to Making Milk, and Common Challenges and Complex Infant Breastfeeding Problems. Click the links below to view recordings and materials from each session:
- Webinar 1: Building Community Partnerships to Promote and Support Breastfeeding
- Webinar 2: Demystifying the Secrets to Making Milk
- Webinar 3: Demystifying the Secrets to Making Milk, and Common Challenges and Complex Infant Breastfeeding Problems (Scheduled for 2022)
- To support Healthy Start grantees in providing breastfeeding support and meeting the two breastfeeding benchmarks, the Healthy Start TA & Support Center (TASC) launched a three-part Beyond COVID-19: Breastfeeding Webinar Series that ran from November 2021 through January 2022. The goal of this webinar series is to enhance and strengthen Healthy Start grantees’ capacity to meet their client’s breastfeeding needs as we continue to navigate the changing landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic. The series featured Cathy Carothers, IBCLC, FILCA, of Every Mother, Inc, who facilitated the previous TASC’s COVID-19 & Breastfeeding Webinar Series. Webinar topics included: Building Community Partnerships to Promote and Support Breastfeeding, Demystifying the Secrets to Making Milk, and Common Challenges and Complex Infant Breastfeeding Problems. Click the links below to view recordings and materials from each session:
- Beyond COVID-19 Webinar Series
- To support Healthy Start grantees in providing virtual services and managing the everchanging landscape around COVID-19, the Healthy Start TA & Support Center launched a five-part Beyond COVID-19 webinar series that ran from October 2020 through February 2021. Webinar topics included: A Deep Dive into Providing Teleservices for Healthy Start, Supporting Mental Health During and Beyond COVID-19, Quick Tests of Change for Healthy Start, and Reconnecting & Reengaging Healthy Start Clients. Click the links below to view recordings and materials from each session:
- Breastfeeding & COVID Webinar Series
- To support Healthy Start grantees in providing virtual breastfeeding support and meeting the breastfeeding benchmarks in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Healthy Start TA & Support Center launched a four-part Breastfeeding & COVID-19 webinar series that ran from October through December 2020. Webinar topics included: the Impact of COVID-19 on Breastfeeding, Connecting with Participants During Unsettling Times, Supporting Breastfeeding Employees During COVID-19, and Best Practices for Virtual Breastfeeding Support During COVID-19 and Beyond. Click the links below to view recordings and materials from each session:
- COVID-19 Listening Session with Consumers
- In June 2020, the Healthy Start TASC held a listening session to learn about the COVID-19 related challenges consumers/participants were facing. This conversation was facilitated by Tamela Milan, MPPA. Tamela is a member of the Healthy Start Faculty Planning Committee and is a Maternal and Child Health Outreach Worker at Access Community Health Network. To view the session recording, please click here.
- COVID-19 Vaccination Education Webinar Series
- TASC partnered with Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting (RR-VHV) and the National Healthy Start Association (NHSA) to host a webinar series on COVID-19 Vaccination Education for pregnant women and children. This webinar series provided up-to-date information on the vaccine, debunked myths you may have heard and provided an opportunity to have attendees questions answered. The webinar topic included: Equipping Frontline Staff to Encourage the COVID-19 Vaccine among Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women and Ask the Doctors: What we have learned about COVID Vaccinations for Pregnant Women and Children. Click the links below to view recordings and materials from each session:
- Networking Café: Enduring Challenges Amidst COVID-19
- Networking cafés are informal lunchtime sessions, which provide Healthy Start staff an opportunity to come together and share their experiences, challenges, and strategies around a specific topic. This session, which was held in June 2021, focused on continued challenges due to COVID-19. Healthy Start staff shared challenges they are experiencing due to COVID-19, as well as strategies that have helped their teams continue to support families amidst COVID-19. To view the session recording, please click here.
- Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting Series
- TASC hosted the Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting Program (RR-VHV) webinar series which discussed the challenges around providing virtual home visiting services during the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunities that virtual service delivery provides, and strategies for building and sustaining strong relationships with families virtually. This series ran from April through May 2021 and the primary topic was Engaging Families in Virtual Connection. Click the links below to view recordings and materials from each session.
- Virtual Grantees Meeting 2021 Breakout Session: COVID From Consumers’ Perspective
- During the 2021 Virtual Grantees Meeting, there was a breakout session aimed at addressing how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered lives around the world but has had a particularly profound and disproportionate impact on Healthy Start consumers and frontline workers. This breakout session invited Healthy Start consumers, frontline staff, and other partners to the “collective table” to discuss and explore the challenges, changes, losses, and gains experienced by consumers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This session was led by former Healthy Start consumer and current ACCESS Westside Healthy Start Community Action Network Coordinator, Tamela Milan-Alexander, MPPA; and two current ACCESS Westside Healthy Start Consumer Leaders, Amanda Henley and Dakisha Mitchell. This session provided a space and place for participants to voice their experiences and listen and learn from their peers. Additionally, the session equipped participants with tangible tools to navigate the ever-changing landscape around COVID.
- By the end of the session, participants had:
- Developed a collective understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on Healthy Start consumers and frontline staff’s wellbeing
- Built connections with fellow consumers and frontline staff
- Learned tools and resources to manage the stress and challenges consumers and frontline staff continue to face
- To view the session recording, please click here.
- Virtual Grantees Meeting 2021 Breakout Session: How to Build Engaging and Effective Hybrid Services
- Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Healthy Start projects faced the challenging task of providing many of their services virtually for the first time. As we return to more in-person interactions, projects may still be interested in providing some services virtually. During this session, Eli Mast and Jennifer Briseño of Joint Early Learning Ideas discussed the benefits and challenges of virtual, in-person, and hybrid service delivery models.
- They shared examples of various hybrid modalities to support Healthy Start projects in developing and adapting a model that best fits their needs. The speakers also discussed how to build and maintain relationships with adults and children, as well as creative strategies to successfully engage them, in both an in-person and virtual format.
- By the end of the session, participants had:
- Understand the benefits and challenges of virtual, hybrid, and in-person services.
- Understand the process for developing a hybrid model that fits the need of their program.
- Learn strategies to build rapport with adults and children using a hybrid model.
- Learn concrete examples of how to engage adults and children in a hybrid model.
- To view the session recording, please click here.
Newsletters
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: COVID-19 (March 2020)
- This newsletter featured resources on a variety of pandemic-related topics including Outbreak Overview & Background Info, Caring for Women, Children, and Families, Managing Stress, and Caring for marginalized populations.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Complex Trauma and COVID-19 (April 2020)
- This newsletter featured resources focused on addressing complex trauma during COVID-19 including a toolkit and fact sheet. Also featured were stories from grantees on how they were addressing COVID-19 with their communities.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Supporting Staff Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic (May 2020)
- This newsletter featured stories from Healthy Start grantees on how they were addressing COVID-19 in their communities. Also featured were a variety of resources on self-care, working remotely, recognizing and addressing anxiety & burnout, and tele-mental health.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: National Infant Mortality Awareness Month (September 2020)
- This newsletter shared the National Perinatal Association’s “Coping with COVID-19: Trauma-informed Care for Frontline Maternity, Pediatric, and NICU Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” a free continuing education resource designed to teach maternity care and pediatric/NICU providers how to provide trauma-informed care to patients during the heightened stress of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Prematurity Awareness Month (November 2020)
- This newsletter shared the March of Dimes’ (MOD) News Moms Need Blog. In their COVID-19 & the NICU post, the MOD shared information about protecting your baby from COVID-19 while in the NICU. The post covers questions including, “can I visit my baby in the NICU during the pandemic?” and “what if I am diagnosed with COVID-19?”.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Birth Defects Prevention Month (January 2021)
- This newsletter featured stories from Healthy Start grantees on how they were addressing COVID-19 in their communities.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Black Maternal Mortality (February 2021)
- This newsletter featured stories from Healthy Start grantees on how they were addressing COVID-19 in their communities.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: COVID-19 Updates (March 2021)
- This newsletter provided relevant updates on the COVID-19 pandemic for Healthy Start staff, as well as resources on a variety of pandemic-related topics including Addressing COVID-19 Stress among Pregnant and Parenting People, Vaccine Considerations for Pregnant and Breastfeeding People, COVID-19 for New Moms, CDC Vaccine Resources, Prioritizing Equity Video Series, The Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Hispanic Population, Having Challenging Conversations Webinar, and Sesame Street: Caring for Each Other. TASC also launched a survey in this newsletter to gather grantees input on how TASC could support them in navigating the next year in the midst of the pandemic.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Child Abuse Prevention (April 2021)
- This newsletter featured resources on parenting in the midst of the pandemic. This newsletter included a reminder to complete the grantee survey for TASC support during the pandemic and a plug for the COVID-19 Community Corps – a nationwide, grassroots network of local voices people know and trust to encourage Americans to get vaccinated.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Maternal Mental Health (May 2021)
- This newsletter included information on COVID-19 vaccines, and a reminder to complete the grantee survey for TASC support during the pandemic.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Men’s Health (June 2021)
- This newsletter included information on COVID-19 vaccines, and a reminder to complete the grantee survey for TASC support during the pandemic.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Month (July 2021)
- This newsletter included BIPOC mental health resources, including the Indian Health Service (HIS) and University of New Mexico’s Mental Health and Resiliency TeleECHO, which aimed to support health care providers in treating the mental health concerns of American Indian/Alaska Native patients and supporting peers during the pandemic and its aftermath.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: National Breastfeeding Month (August 2021)
- This newsletter included information on COVID-19 vaccines.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Infant Mortality Awareness (September 2021)
- This newsletter included information on COVID-19 vaccines.
- Healthy Start TA & Support Center E-News: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness and SIDS/Safe Sleep Awareness (October 2021)
- This newsletter included information on COVID-19 vaccines, as well as a call to share promising practices with for the Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center (MHLIC). MHLIC focuses on presenting ideas, research, innovative programming and/or promising practices related to improving maternal health. MHLIC was calling for maternal health professionals to share innovative practices, programs or policies designed to increase COVID-19 vaccinations for pregnant people. MHLIC hoped to share promising practices with their national audience through their Resource Center, blog, webinar panels, newsletters, and social media.