Stress and Depression Training Toolkit

The Stress and Depression Toolkit modules are designed to enhance users’ knowledge of mental health surrounding pregnancy. There are links to internet resources throughout the Modules to help you learn the content. There are questions and scenarios in each Module which will help you use the information you are learning. At the end of each of the Modules, you will be able to quiz yourselves on what you have learned.

Module 1: Stress
Part 1 – What is Stress?
Part 2 – The Context of Stress: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class (Income)
Part 3 – Stress and the Body

Module 2: Stress, Emotions, and Depression
Part 1 – Stress and Emotional Responses
Part 2 – Depression
Part 3 – Stress, Anxiety, and Depression During Pregnancy
Part 4 – Paternal Stress and Depression

Module 3: Intervention
Part 1 – Mental Health Care
Part 2 – Self Care
Part 3 – Social Support

Learning Objectives:

By the end of Module 1 (Part 1-3), you should be able to:

  1. Identify stress and the types of stress that people experience.
  2. Educate your clients on how stress negatively impacts physical and mental health outcomes leading to chronic illnesses and poor birth outcomes.
  3. Understand the contexts of stress as they inform the experiences that individuals identify as stressful and how they react to them.

By the end of Module 2 (Part 1-4), you should be able to:

  1. Understand how stress leads to emotional responses including anxiety.
  2. Recognize the different forms of depression.
  3. Understand how stress affects pregnancy and the postpartum period.
  4. Identify paternal stress and depression.

By the end of Module 3 (Parts 1-3), you will gain an understanding of:

  1. The importance of mental health care.
  2. The importance of self care: exercise, nutrition, meditation, and sleep for reducing stress.
  3. The role of social support.

Depression Father/Partner Involvement Mental Health

Fatherhood Listening/Rap Session 2

Introducing Fatherhood Coordinator Listening/Rap Session Series:
Calling all Fatherhood Coordinators and those supporting fatherhood/male involvement programming! We are building upon the Fatherhood Talk Tuesday Series by offering two more virtual opportunities for Healthy Start programs currently serving fathers and those planning to serve fathers. We will to share resources, tools, and tips related to successful fatherhood/male involvement programming. We will also integrate a short video or music clip related to the rap session topics and discuss recent and upcoming Healthy Start fatherhood events.
These meetings are specifically for Fatherhood Coordinators and others involved in staffing and/or facilitating the activities related to male involvement/male engagement services.
Each meeting will be 90 minutes and will feature one or more presentations from grantees, group discussion, and sharing of some tools like Logic Models or PDSA Cycles for fatherhood programming enhancements and quality improvement.
To sign up for the sessions please email Durrell Fox at [email protected]

Father/Partner Involvement Parenting Education Partner Involvement

Fatherhood Listening/Rap Session 1

Introducing Fatherhood Coordinator Listening/Rap Session Series:

Calling all Fatherhood Coordinators and those supporting fatherhood/male involvement programming! We are building upon the Fatherhood Talk Tuesday Series by offering two more virtual opportunities for Healthy Start programs currently serving fathers and those planning to serve fathers. We will to share resources, tools, and tips related to successful fatherhood/male involvement programming. We will also integrate a short video or music clip related to the rap session topics and discuss recent and upcoming Healthy Start fatherhood events.

These meetings are specifically for Fatherhood Coordinators and others involved in staffing and/or facilitating the activities related to male involvement/male engagement services.

Each meeting will be 90 minutes and will feature one or more presentations from grantees, group discussion, and sharing of some tools like Logic Models or PDSA Cycles for fatherhood programming enhancements and quality improvement.

See the slides from the event here, and don’t miss the next Fatherhood Coordinator Listening/Rap Session on April 30.

Father/Partner Involvement Parenting Education Partner Involvement

Ask the Expert: Parenting Children from Birth to Age 2

This webinar will focus on helping Healthy Start team members:

  • Support participants in making healthy parenting choices
  • Assist parents in creating safe environments for their young children
  • Reinforce and clarify the advice and recommendations of babies’ health care providers
  • Identify and help parents recognize warning signs that a baby or young child may be at risk.

Objectives:

  1. Describe recommendations for care of a child from birth to age 2.
  2. Discuss the importance of recommended well baby checks and describe tests and procedures that are performed during these visits.
  3. Identify warning signs that a baby or toddler may be at risk for medical or developmental problems.

Webinar Materials:

Breastfeeding Depression Father/Partner Involvement Immunization Insurance Coverage Intimate Partner Violence Nutrition Parenting Education Patient-centered Medical Home Risk Assessment Safe Sleep Socio-emotional Development for Children Tobacco Cessation

Healthy Start Regional Meeting (MA, CT, NY)

Meeting Materials:

Father/Partner Involvement Program evaluation Shared Measurement

Healthy Start Regional Meeting (NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Meeting Materials:

Father/Partner Involvement Participant Recruitment and Retention Quality Improvement

Healthy Start Regional Meeting (PA)

Meeting Materials:

Common Agenda Father/Partner Involvement Participant Recruitment and Retention Socio-emotional Development for Children

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