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SUMMARY:6 Month Perinatal Mental Health Consultation Group
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOpen to mental health therapists in Washington state. You’re still able to register for months April-August even though the group has already started. \nJoin this engaging 6-month professional consultation group dedicated to deepening your understanding and expertise in perinatal mental health. This closed group is designed for mental health professionals seeking to enhance their clinical skills and create a supportive\, collaborative learning environment. Open to licensed mental health counselors\, therapists specializing in perinatal care\, and clinical professionals working with new and expecting parents. \nTrainer:  Michelle Anderson\, LMHC\, PMH-C \nDates and times:  2nd Tuesday of the month beginning March 11th @9am-10am PST\nMarch 11th\, April 8th\, May 13th\, June 10th\, July 8th\, August 12th\, 2025 \nLocation: Zoom \nCost: $375 (Cost for attending April-August) \nTopics Include: \n\nAdjustment to Parenthood\nPerinatal Depression & Anxiety\nObsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)\nBipolar & Perinatal Psychosis\nPregnancy and Perinatal Loss\nTraumatic Birth Experiences and NICU stay\nImpacts of Sexual Abuse in the Perinatal Period\nFertility Journey Challenges  – Perinatal Impacts\nMobile Mama Strategies for the Perinatal Period\n\nConsultation Group structure will include:\n\n\nOne hour per month for 6 months\nFirst ten minutes of each group focused on PMH topic overview\nFifty minutes for perinatal case consultations\nOpportunity for supportive reflection and learning\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\nProvide a safe\, confidential space for professional consultation\nFoster collaborative learning and peer support\nDevelop advanced clinical skills in perinatal mental health\nExplore complex clinical scenarios and interventions\nCreate a supportive network of specialized providers\n\nRegister HERE \nThis training does not provide Continuing Education Units (CEUs). This is a live training and a recording will not be sent out.  \nQuestions regarding the training\, please email: training@perinatalsupport.org \nAbout the trainer: \nMichelle Anderson: Michelle Anderson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and is Perinatal Mental Health Certified. She is the owner of Mobile Mama Therapy\, Whatcom County’s Perinatal Mental Health Specialists\, located in Bellingham\, WA. Michelle provides counseling to women through their winding journey of motherhood as well as supervision\, consultation and training related to perinatal mental health throughout the Pacific Northwest.
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/6-month-consult-jan2025/
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SUMMARY:Creating a Nest of Care: Perinatal Loss Training for Birthworkers - Monthly Loss Consult
DESCRIPTION:This training is open to birth workers in King County\, WA. \nThis birth worker training centers on the loss of life when intertwined with the womb and birthing.  Join 40 local birth workers in a year-long commitment to growing the web of care necessary to support someone through this loss.  \nCreating a Nest Cohort is a 9-month project provided for free in partnership with Sacred Passing\, Imani’s Light\, and Perinatal Support WA for birthworkers serving families in King County. \nMonthly ongoing learning session on the third Wednesday of the month from 10:00am -1:30 pm. Doors open at 10:00am with brunch provided. Content will begin promptly at 10:30am. \nDates and times: \nWednesday\, 4/16; 10-1:30pm  \nWednesday\, 5/21; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 6/18; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 7/16; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 8/20; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 9/17; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 10/15; 10-1:30pm  \nWednesday\, 11/19; 10-1:30pm \nLocation: In-Person; due to the nature of the content and curriculum\, the sessions necessitate in-person attendance. The experiential learning and community building fostered in this space are not replicable in a virtual format (for months 1\, 6\, and 7 hybrid options will be a permissible accommodation for health reasons only\, not convenience)  \nBurien Community Center\n14700 6th Ave SW\, Burien\, WA 98166 \nPlease see the list below and register for as many sessions as you will attend. Space is limited and meals will be provided\, so please register accurately for your availability. \nConsultation Group structure: \nMonth 1: 4/16 Ambiguous/Disenfranchised Grief Support: \n\n Strategies for supporting families through the intersections of ambiguous/disenfranchised grief support (families with experience with incarceration/ICE\, child removal\, loss due to overdose\, unhoused)  Hybrid accommodation available.\n\nMonth 2: 5/21 Getting the News and Medical Advocacy  \n\nHow to deliver and receive life-changing news with sensitivity and support.  \nEmpowering families to understand and navigate medical information and decisions early in diagnosis or complications.\n\nContinuing support and advocacy for families post-loss\, including follow-up care and memorial planning\nGrief Therapy options\n\n\n\nMonth 3: 6/18 Perinatal and Infant Disposition Choices /Shrouding and Care After Death Empowering families to honor their children with a disposition choice that honors a family’s beliefs/wishes. \n\nTechniques for shrouding and caring for the deceased with dignity\, including cultural practices and hands-on training.\n\nMonth 4: 7/16 Self Care \n\nArt and community building at Asphodel House\n\nMonth 5: 8/13 Field Trip to Return Home Funeral Home: Bonus Session \n\nBest practices for bereavement photography\, training on creating meaningful memories through photographs\, handprints\, locks of hair\, and other keepsakes.\nPrivate tour for our cohort of the Return Home Funeral Home about green disposition options\, address & details in email to participants\n\nMonth 6: 9/17 Legal and Ethical Considerations in Perinatal Loss – First Legal Clinic  \n\nGuidance on navigating the legal and ethical aspects of working with perinatal loss\, including patient rights\, confidentiality\, and advocacy.  Hybrid accommodation available\n\nMonth 7: 10/15 Birth after Loss & Stories of Loss: Cultural Care Practices Hybrid accommodation available \n\nParents panel \n\nMonth 8: 11/19 Building a Community Network & Shifting Perinatal Deathcare  \n\nClosing of the series with reflection and pulling together strategies for building and sustaining a supportive network for ongoing community and professional support.\nWill take place at Asphodel House\, address will be in an email to participants\n\nPlease note this training is restricted to birth workers serving families in King County. \nPlease note this training is restricted to King County birth workers. \nIf you registered for the initial 3 day training\, ‘Creating a Nest” please REGISTER HERE. \nIf you did not attend the initial 3 day training\, “Creating a Nest” please REGISTER HERE. \nFacilitators:  \nLashanna is an intentional tender and has been such for going on just over 30 years.  A tender of people and spaces\, a recovering corporate employee\, and an avid learner.  A mistake maker\, community lover\, consensual hugger\, garden witch\, and mother; a midwest grown\, University of Michigan graduate\, artist\, facilitator\, and holder of heavy things. Creating space for belonging is at the core of their work\, from teaching medical professionals to working with youth and play\, from shrouding a community member to hand-grinding herbs for tea. Lashanna regularly lives and works in the intersections of death\, art\, education and love. Her end-of-life work is rooted in a community deathcare model.  Lashanna holds a solid\, grounded space for her clients\, regularly bringing great comfort to a time that can feel out of control.  Her knowledge\, skill\, and experience allow her to assist people and their families in their time of death.  Lashanna not only works with people imminently facing death or who have been given a terminal diagnosis; she also works with those living their life fully and wants a doula relationship in place for when death does come closer or an accident occurs. As the Executive Director of A Sacred Passing\, Lashanna joins in community collaboration\, creating engaging and productive death-and-dying educational materials and opportunities for the community and professionals to learn.  While instructing massage students or doulas\, she works to impress the importance of keeping one’s agenda and judgment out of the process while centering on listening\, trust\, and autonomy. “If energy is neither created or destroyed\, I am quite sure we’ve met sometime before” – thegoodwitchofcascadia \nMarquita is a Perinatal Grief & Trauma Therapist\, Death Doula\, and founder of Imani’s Light Grief & Wellness Center. Marquita has over 15 years of serving BIPOC families. She aims to inspire and empower people to show up authentically\, while fiercely advocating for those navigating spaces that are not traditionally occupied by people of color. She has also served registered and non-registered families through the different stages of the Organ Donation process.  In her spare time\, Marquita is also a digital storyteller\, birth & documentary photographer\, and content creator. Learn more at ImanisLightWellness.org or by following her on social media @ImanisLight.
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/birth-workers-march2025/
CATEGORIES:ContinuingEducation,Provider Training
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SUMMARY:Responding with Care: Suicide Prevention & Risk Assessment in Perinatal Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:*REGISTRATION CLOSED* \nPriority registration for WA state professionals who serve families in Clallam & Jefferson counties. A limited number of spots are available for WA state professionals serving other counties. \nThis training is designed for helping professionals working with perinatal individuals. The program focuses on safety\, risk assessment\, and suicide prevention within the context of perinatal mental health conditions (PMHCs). Participants will learn to recognize and differentiate between conditions such as anxiety\, mania\, and psychosis\, and understand when these symptoms require urgent or emergency intervention. Emphasis will be placed on building trust and rapport\, utilizing effective communication strategies\, and employing validated screening tools to assess risk. The training will also cover safety planning and identifying appropriate community resources. Through case discussions and practical exercises\, attendees will gain tools to respond compassionately and effectively to individuals experiencing perinatal mental health crises\, all while fostering strong\, supportive relationships.\nDate: Tuesday\, May 6\, 2025 \nTime: 9am-4pm PST \nLocation: Zoom \nCost: FREE \nTrainers: Dr. Mary Kimmel\, MD\, PhD & Karen Burns\, MSW\, LCSW-A\, PMH-C \nTraining Objectives:\nUpon conclusion of this program participants should be able to: \n\nIdentify and differentiate perinatal mental health conditions (PMHCs) with an understanding of when symptoms require urgent or emergency intervention.\nUtilize effective screening and assessment tools to evaluate PMHCs and assess suicide risk\, integrating strategies for building trust and rapport with perinatal individuals.\nDevelop and implement safety plans that consider both the birthing parent and infant\, incorporating family involvement and addressing real-world challenges in home and community settings.\nIdentify appropriate community resources and patient support strategies including sleep strategies\, peer support\, and distress tolerance techniques.\nApply conversational strategies for fostering open communication and reducing fear in high-risk situations.\n\nRegistration Deadline: May 5th at 12pm. \nRegister Now\nContinuing Education: \n\n6 CEUs pending for LICSW\, LMHC\, LMFT\n6 Contact Hours approved for RNs: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing\, Provider Number 17084 for 6 contact hours.\n\nThis is a live training and a recording will not be sent out. Questions regarding the training\, please email: training@perinatalsupport.org \nDr. Mary Kimmel\, MD\, PhD\, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She previously was at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill\, where she was medical director for the Perinatal Psychiatry Inpatient Unit and helped start and served as medical director of NC MATTERS\, a statewide perinatal mental health consultation line. She is an affiliated researcher with Uppsala University in Sweden where she earned her PhD in maternal and child health. Her research interests include better characterization of stress in pregnancy; studying the interaction between obstetrical complications and perinatal stress\, depression and anxiety; and utilizing the microbiota- gut-brain axis to improve diagnosis and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She has published in Biological Psychiatry\, Translational Psychiatry\, Archives of Women’s Mental Health\, Nature Communications\, Child Development\, among others. \nKaren Burns\, MSW\, LCSW-A\, PMH-C\, is a Research Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Program Director for NC Maternal Mental Health MATTERS\, the state’s perinatal psychiatry access program. She is also an outpatient therapist specializing in the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Karen is certified in perinatal mental health through Postpartum Support International and is a trained Circle of Security Parenting facilitator. For almost two decades\, she has led large-scale clinical and research initiatives focused on mental health and positive youth development. Her current work centers on expanding access to perinatal mental health care across North Carolina through clinical consultation\, training\, and systems-level support. She received her MSW and Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from UNC-Chapel Hill. \nThis free training is offered by Perinatal Support WA through a grant from Strengthening Families Washington at the Department of Children\, Youth\, and Families (DCYF).
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/clallam-jefferson-may2025/
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SUMMARY:Foundations in Perinatal Mental Health (Kittitas County)
DESCRIPTION:*Registration is Full* \nThis training is open to WA state professionals who practice in Kittitas County. \nThis training covers key concepts and practices in the prevention\, identification and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders\n(PMADs)\, as well as how to link parents to support and treatment. In this training we will cover risk factors\, symptoms\, and causes of PMADs and how this impacts families\, including high risk populations experiencing PMADs\, and the intersection of perinatal mental health and trauma.  In addition\, topics will include medication in the perinatal period\, screening tools\, making effective referrals\, and creating client led support. \nThis training will be dynamic and interactive\, with opportunities to network with peers and colleagues to create deeper connections between resources and services.  Expect to walk away with fresh insights into perinatal mental health\, practical tools to implement immediately in your work with clients\, and new perspectives on how to support birthing people and their families. Plus\, we will spend some time on taking care of ourselves as providers\, and building skills that can help prevent burnout and compassion fatigue. \nDate: Thursday\, May 22\, 2025 \nTime: 9am-5pm PST \nLocation:\nHotel Windrow\n502 N Main Street\nEllensburg\, WA 98926\n(Yakima Room) \nCost: FREE \nTrainer: Crystal Gurney \nLearning Objectives: \nUpon completion of this training\, participants will be able to: \n\nLearn about the Spectrum of Perinatal Mental Health\nScreen a parent for risk factors leading to perinatal mood and anxiety disorders by identifying at least four risk factors.\nScreen a parent for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders by identifying at least three symptoms.\nDescribe medications used during pregnancy and breastfeeding to treat perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.\nLearn about local resources for new parent support.\n\nContinuing Education: \n\n6.5 Contact Hours approved for RNs: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing\, Provider Number 17084 for 6.5 contact hours.\n\nThis free training is offered by Perinatal Support WA through a grant from Strengthening Families Washington at the Department of Children\, Youth\, and Families (DCYF). \nQuestions regarding the training\, please email: training@perinatalsupport.org \n 
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/kittitas_may2025/
LOCATION:Hotel Windrow\, North Main Street 502\, Ellensburg\, WA\, 98926\, United States
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SUMMARY:Best Practices in Prevention\, Identification & Treatment of Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders
DESCRIPTION:This in-person training is open to professionals in WA state serving perinatal families. \nLearn how to effectively identify and screen parents experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. This training takes place over 2 days and is appropriate for a range of providers\, including OBs\, pediatricians\, midwives\, RNs\, social workers\, mental health therapists\, doulas\, public health employees\, home visitors\, IBCLCs\, and more. \nLocation:\nKadlec Regional Medical Center\n888 Swift Blvd\, Richland\, WA 99352 \nColumbia Conference Rooms / 3rd floor / Mountain Pavilion\nEntrance: Vineyard Lobby (Main Hospital Entrance). It takes approximately 15 minutes to walk from the parking garage to the Vineyard Lobby and then to the Columbia Rooms. \nCost: FREE \nTrainers: Lisa Malcolm\, MSW\, LICSW\, PMH-C & Lyndsey Williams\, MSW\, LICSW\, PMH-C \nDates & Time:\nWednesday-Thursday\, May 28-29\, 2025\n9am-5pm PDT \nPlease Note:\n \n\nThis training is similar to our Perinatal Mental Health for Home Visitors Training and our Promoting Parental Resilience Training. If you have attended either of these\, please don’t register for this training as they cover similar content.\nTo participate in this training you must attend live\, the training will not be recorded.\n\nThis free training is offered by Perinatal Support WA through a grant from Strengthening Families Washington at the Department of Children\, Youth\, and Families (DCYF). \nObjectives of this training: \n\nUnderstand the “real” transition to parenthood.\nKnow the spectrum of perinatal mental health disorders.\nKnow the risk factors for PMADs.\nKnow key prevention strategies.\nUnderstand high risk populations and health disparities.\nBecome knowledgeable about the impacts of perinatal mental health on families and communities.\nKnow the components of a treatment plan.\nBe able to effectively talk about\, and screen new/expectant parents for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.\nUnderstand the impact of birth experiences on postpartum emotional health.\nBecome knowledgeable about risk and symptoms for partners and fathers.\nBecome knowledgeable about psychiatric medications during pregnancy and breastfeeding.\nBecome knowledgeable about supporting families in the NICU\nBecome knowledgeable about feeding issues and perinatal mental health.\nUnderstand the impact on infant and children.\nUnderstand impacts on partners and relationships.\n\nREGISTER NOW\nContinuing Education Credit: \n\n12.5 CEUs approved for MSWs\, MAs\, MFTs.\nThis Program has been approved for 12.5 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.\n12.5 Contact hours approved for RNs: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing\, Provider Number 17084 for 12.5 contact hours.\nAt this time\, this training is not certified by Postpartum Support International (PSI) to meet the requirements of PMH-C. We are in process of updating our certification with PSI for this training so that the training can go towards PMH-C in the future.\n\nQuestions regarding the training\, please email: training@perinatalsupport.org \nThis is a live virtual training and a recording will not be sent out after the training\, please only register if you are able to attend the training in its entirety. \nLisa Malcolm\, MSW\, LICSW\, PMH-C is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with over 20 years of experience in helping professions. A passionate advocate for birthing people experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders\, Lisa provides mental health treatment to survivors of pregnancy and infant loss\, and families who have experienced traumatic birth; she holds a Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International. Lisa specializes in providing rural mental health care and collaborating with rural systems of care partners\, providing consultation\, collaboration\, and training to support evidence-based provision of perinatal mental\nhealth services. \nLyndsey Williams\, MSW\, LICSW\, PMH-C (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) located in Seattle\, WA. She currently practices in Washington\, Idaho\, Maryland and Washington DC. She has worked in various areas of maternal child health since 2012 and has provided reproductive psychotherapy since 2017. She received her bachelor’s degree from Morgan State University and obtained her Masters in Social Work from University of Maryland Baltimore. She has been trained in various aspects of perinatal and conceiving partners’ mental health. She is perinatal mental health certified (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International and Seleni Institute. Lyndsey focuses on empowerment with self-compassion and acceptance through life adjustments associated with reproductive experiences like pregnancy\, infertility\, endometriosis\, pregnancy/infant loss etc. She uses her passion for writing blended with clinical expertise to create healing narrative therapy tools and help women tell their own stories. She provides training to direct care staff on women’s issues like perinatal mental health and domestic violence and anti-burnout wellness workshops. One of Lyndsey’s favorite quotes is from Maya Angelou: “You may not control all the events that happen to you\, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/richland-2-day-2025/
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