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SUMMARY:Clinical Consultation: for Black Mental Health Clinicians
DESCRIPTION:Open to providers in King\, Pierce\, and Snohomish Counties. \nThe fourth Thursday of the month June-December from 5:00pm-6:00pm  starting July 22nd at 5:00pm-6:00pm. (7/22\, 8/26\, 9/23\, 10/28\, 11/18*\, 12/16*) * means 3rd Thursday because of holiday. Registration is still open! \nThis group welcomes Black clinicians who are interested in serving childbearing families in a culturally-relevant way. We will provide support to approach perinatal mental health work with cultural humility and sensitivity with attention and emphasis to the intersections of race/class/gender/sexual orientation/ability/parenting experience.  \n  \nQualifications for attending:  \n\nYou are a Black clinician providing mental health services IN King\, Pierce or Snohomish County.\nYou serve Medicaid eligible clients\, have sliding-scale or low-cost options \nAnd have taken one of the listed (or an equivalent perinatal Mental Health 2-day training) in the last 1-2 years\n\nPromoting Parental Resilience (PS-WA)\n2-Day Practices and Best Practices in Prevention\, Identification and Treatment of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders – 2 day Training (PS-WA)\nPSI’s 2 Day PMAD training\n2020 Mom-Perinatal Mental Health Training\n\n\n\nAbout the Clinical Consultation Groups: \n\nConsultations will meet once a month for six months 60-90 minute sessions via Zoom from June-December.\nConsultation is provided free of cost to providers.\nSessions will be a small group of clinicians all who attended a comprehensive two-day PMAD training that are seeing perinatal clients\, roughly 6-12 providers.\nIt will be a group consultation for case presentations and feedback from a perinatal mental health expert (from our PS-WA training team). There will be direct opportunities to share and get feedback from the facilitator as well as learn through others case presentations.\nAll consultations will use an intersectional and anti-oppressive lens in working with childbearing people. \nConsultations will be led by Perinatal Mental Health Specialists from each of the identified provider communities.  \n\n*Consultation does not meet requirements for clinical supervision.   \nREGISTER TODAY\nQuestions regarding this training\, please email training@perinatalsupport.org \nMeet the facilitator\, Natasha: Natasha Is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 13 years of experience working with children and families. Natasha enjoys working with women during their pregnancy journey and postpartum adjustment period. Natasha’s specialty is pregnancy and postpartum anxiety.  She uses a variety of integrative therapy approaches including strength-based approach\, mindfulness\, solution focused\, attachment-parenting theory and cognitive behavioral theory (CBT).
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SUMMARY:Perinatal Mental Health 10 Week Training Series
DESCRIPTION:This 10 week series offers a forum to learn from an experienced perinatal mental health specialist\, delving into weekly topic areas through training and case study discussions.  \nThis training is suitable for all mental health practitioners. The training groups require a 10 week long commitment. Each session will be 1.5 hours long and will consist of training on a specific PMAD topic. There will be a focus on a case study related to the week’s topic in order to highlight and incorporate the knowledge and skills learned through the reading and the training. This training is provided by specialists in the field: \nMia Edidin\, LICSW\nMeyleen Velasquez\, LICSW\nKristine Lynam\, LICSW\nMichelle Anderson\, LMHC\n\n  \nDates and times:   9:00 – 10:30am\, Wednesdays: \nOctober 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 \nNovember 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nDecember 1\, 8\, 2021 \nLocation:  Zoom \nTrainers: Mia Edidin\, LICSW and Meyleen Velasquez\, LICSW \n  \nNumber of CEU’s:  \n\n15 CEU’s approved for LICSWs\, LMHCs\, and LMFTs\n15 Contact hours available for RNs. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing\, Provider Number 17084 for 15 contact hours\nThis Program has been approved for 15 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.\nThis training is approved as an advanced course for the Postpartum Support International Certification in Perinatal Mental Health.\nContinuing Education is provided by Perinatal Support of Washington at the completion of the program.  CEUs are based on attendance (1.5 CEUs per meeting).\nFor missed sessions\, a comprehension test of 80% correct answers is required. Recordings will be available.\n\nCourse Outline: \nWeek 1 – Adjustment issues\, maternal shoulds and shame issues in American society \nWeek 2 – Perinatal Depression \nWeek 3 –  Anxiety – Intrusive and scary thoughts\, OCD\, OCD and scary thoughts \nWeek 4 – Perinatal management of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis \nWeek 5 – Birth trauma \nWeek 6 – Breastfeeding \nWeek 7 – Perinatal loss: miscarriage\, stillbirth\, preparing for pregnancy after loss and risk for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. \nWeek 8 – Medications during pregnancy and lactation \nWeek 9 – Supporting parents during and after the NICU \nWeek 10 – Special considerations for sexual abuse survivors and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders\, birth issues and parenting issues.  \n  \nLearning Objectives: \n\nUnderstand how to accurately identify\, assess and treat perinatal depression.\nUnderstand how to accurately identify\, assess and treat perinatal anxiety.\nUnderstand how to accurately identify\, assess and treat adjustment issues.\nUnderstand how to accurately identify\, assess and treat perinatal bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis.\nUnderstand how to accurately identify\, assess and treat birth trauma.\nUnderstand when breastfeeding is protective and when it is a risk factor for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.\nUnderstand how perinatal loss impacts the risk for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.\nUnderstand the special considerations for perinatal medication management.\nUnderstand how to accurately identify\, assess and treat  sexual abuse survivors for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.\n\nCost: \n$412 General Registration \n$335 PS-WA Member \n$206 Current PS-WA Volunteer \nScholarship information:\nLimited Scholarships available for Washington state providers who meet the following requirements:\n1. Take 1 or more Medicaid (Apple Health) plans and\n2. Agree to continue to take new clients with Apple Health plans for a year.\n3. Work within communities who have historically been underserved and have the necessary connection to serve families in those communities. \nFull and partial scholarships are available. To apply please follow this link to the application.\nDeadline to apply: September 22\, 2021 \nIn the application you will be asked to write a brief statement about how this training will be used in your practice\, how you plan to provide services to underserved communities\, and how you hope this training will impact your community or community you serve. Please be sure to include details about how you meet the 3 criteria listed in the application. \nREGISTER NOW
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SUMMARY:10 Month Advanced Perinatal Mental Health Training and Case Consultation
DESCRIPTION:This 10 month series offers a forum to learn from experienced perinatal mental health specialists\, delving into PMH topic areas through both didactic training and case study discussions. If you have attended our 2 day Best Practices in Prevention\, Identification\, and Treatment of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Training\, this 10 month training is a great next step in continuing to learn about perinatal mental health issues. \nThis training is suitable for all mental health practitioners and requires a 10 month commitment. Each session will be 2 hours long and will consist of:  1 hour training on a specific PMAD topic and 1 hour of case consultation.  Case consultation will help clinicians implement and incorporate the knowledge and skills learned through the reading and the training. \nTrainer:  Heidi Koss\, LMHC \nDates and times:  Consultation meetings start on Friday\, October 15th and continue on the 3rd Friday of each month\, 10am-12pm PST. Participants agree to financially commit to the program. \nDates: Oct 15th\, Nov 19th\, Dec 17th\, Jan 21st\, Feb 18th\, March 18th\, April 15th\, May 20th\, June 17th\, July 15th \nLocation: Zoom \nContinuing Education  \n\n20 CEUs approved for LICSWs\, LMHCs\, and LMFTs. \nThis Program has been approved for 20 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.\n20 contact hours approved for RNs: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing\, Provider Number 17084 for 20 contact hours. CEUs are based on attendance (2 CEUs per 2 hour meeting)\nThis training is approved as an advanced course for the Postpartum Support International Certification in Perinatal Mental Health.\nContinuing Education is provided by Perinatal Support of Washington at the completion of the program.  CEUs are based on attendance (2 CEUs per 2 hour meeting).\n\nCost: $75/consult session \n\nTo reserve your spot please pay $150 and make monthly payments\, or pay in full ($750)\nIf you choose to make monthly payments you will be required to set up an auto payment via credit card. You will receive an invoice on December 1st. Please set up the automatic credit card payment when you receive that invoice and your credit card will be automatically charged on the first of every month starting in December and ending in July.\nThe consult groups require a commitment of all 10 monthly consultation meetings.\n\nScholarship information:\nLimited Scholarships available for providers in Washington state who meet the following requirements:\n1. Take 1 or more Medicaid (Apple Health) plans and\n2. Agree to continue to take new clients with Apple Health plans for a year.\n3. Work within communities who have historically been underserved and have the necessary connection to serve families in those communities. \nFull and partial scholarships are available. To apply please follow this link to the application.\nDeadline to apply: October 1\, 2021 \nIn the application you will be asked to write a brief statement about how this training will be used in your practice\, how you plan to provide services to underserved communities\, and how you hope this training will impact your community or community you serve. Please be sure to include details about how you meet the 3 criteria listed in the application. \nREGISTER TODAY\nCourse Outline: (please note all topics will be covered but might move around) \n    Month 1 – Adjustment issues\, maternal shoulds and shame issues in American society \n    Month 2 – Perinatal Depression \n    Month 3 –  Anxiety – Intrusive and scary thoughts\, OCD\, OCD and scary thoughts \n    Month 4 – Perinatal management of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis. \n    Month 5 – Birth trauma \n    Month 6 – Breastfeeding \n    Month 7 – Perinatal loss: miscarriage\, stillbirth\, preparing for pregnancy after loss and risk for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. \n    Month 8 – Medications during pregnancy and lactation. \n    Month 9 – Supporting parents during and after the NICU \n    Month 10 – Special considerations for sexual abuse survivors and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders\, birth issues and parenting issues.  \n  \nLearning Objectives: \n\nUnderstand how to accurately identify\, assess and treat perinatal depression\, perinatal anxiety\, adjustment issues\, perinatal bipolar disorder\, postpartum psychosis and birth trauma.\nUnderstand when breastfeeding is protective and when it is a risk factor for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.\nUnderstand how perinatal loss impacts the risk for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.\nUnderstand the special considerations for perinatal medication management.\nUnderstand how to accurately identify\, assess and treat sexual abuse survivors for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.\n\nQuestions regarding the training\, please email: training@perinatalsupport.org \nAbout the trainer: \nHeidi Koss\, LMHC is a psychotherapist in private practice\, serving individuals\, couples and families\, with an emphasis on pregnancy and postpartum mood disorders\, birth trauma\, as well as treating other related birth issues. \nHeidi has contributed to the field of perinatal mental health in many ways over her career. She is the Co-Founder of the Northwest Association for Postpartum Support (NAPS). She served on the WA state leadership advisory committee for the Speak Up When You’re Down Postpartum Depression Awareness Campaign and has been an instructor at the Seattle Midwifery School for their PPMD course. She has collaborated on a PPMD training curriculum with the University of WA School of Nursing Infant Mental Health and Development Program and the Washington State Department of Health First Steps Division. She has been a Certified Postpartum Doula and Certified Lactation Educator for over twelve years\, and the recipient of the prestigious DONA International Penny Simkin Award in 2006. Heidi is also the proud mother of 2 beautiful daughters.
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/10-month-advanced-perinatal-mental-health-training-and-case-consultation/
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