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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
ORGANIZER;CN="Perinatal Support Washington":MAILTO:training@perinatalsupport.org
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SUMMARY:10 Week Perinatal Mental Health Series
DESCRIPTION:Open to all mental health practitioners. 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. Limited scholarships are available.  \nDates and times:   9:00 – 10:30am PDT\, Wednesdays \nOctober 1\, 8\, 15\, 22\, 29 \nNovember 5\, 12\, 19\, 26 \nDecember 3\,  2025 \nLocation:  Zoom \nContinuing Education Units:  \n\n15 CEUs approved for LICSWs\, LMHCs\, and LMFTs\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.\n15 Contact hours available for RNs. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing\, Provider Number 17084 for 15 contact hours\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)\nCEUs available for live attendance only.\n\nCourse Outline: \nOct 1 (Week 1) – Adjustment issues\, maternal shoulds and shame issues in American society\nOct 8 (Week 2) – Perinatal Depression\nOct 15 (Week 3) – Anxiety – Intrusive and scary thoughts\, OCD\nOct 22 (Week 4) – Perinatal management of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis\nOct 29 (Week 5) – Birth Trauma\nNov 5 (Week 6) – Medications during pregnancy & lactation\nNov 12 (Week 7) – Perinatal loss: miscarriage\, stillbirth\, preparing for pregnancy after loss\, and risk for PMADs.\nNov 19 (Week 8) – Breastfeeding\nNov 26 (Week 9) – Supporting parents during and after the NICU\nDec 3 (Week 10) – Special considerations for sexual abuse survivors and PMADs\, birth and parenting issues. \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$475 General Registration\n$400 PS-WA Member\n$250 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 24\, 2025 \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. \nThis consultation group has felt really supportive and helpful in my growth in the perinatal field. Every month I feel I gain valuable knowledge and insight\, in a caring\, nonjudgemental space. I really enjoy attending monthly and hope it continues for a long time.\n~Amanda LICSW\, PMH-C \nThis is a live training and a recording will not be sent out.
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/10-week-oct2025/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:ContinuingEducation,Provider Training
ORGANIZER;CN="Perinatal Support Washington":MAILTO:training@perinatalsupport.org
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SUMMARY:Group Peer Support (GPS) Facilitator Training
DESCRIPTION:*REGISTRATION CLOSED* \n~Open to WA state professionals~ \nPerinatal Support Washington is partnering with Group Peer Support to offer a Group Peer Support Facilitator Training.  This is a specialized training program aimed at empowering individuals to lead perinatal peer support groups. \nThis training will equip facilitators to create confidential\, secure\, respectful\, and inclusive spaces where parents can genuinely and empathetically connect.  In GPS groups\, parents receive the essential support they need to thrive during the early months of parenting\, and facilitators gain the confidence to provide them with a much-needed support group experience. \nThis program focuses on creating inclusive and supportive environments for parents\, with an emphasis on evidence-based methods and culturally responsive support. \nWhat This Training Offers\n● Tools to create confidential\, inclusive\, and supportive spaces\n● Practice facilitating authentic peer-to-peer connection\n● Skills to guide parents in sharing experiences and receiving emotional support\n● Evidence-based methods to build strong\, nurturing groups\n● Confidence to lead impactful sessions that promote community healing and resilience \nWho Should Attend\nThis training is ideal for:\n● Peer supporters\n● Perinatal professionals\n● Community leaders\n● Parents interested in facilitating support groups \nGPS October 2025 Hybrid Training\nOctober 21-November 6\, 2025\nAll sessions 10:00am–12:30 pm PT  (Live on Zoom + recordings) \nOpening Practicum:\n● October 21 | 10:00am – 12:30pm PT Opening Practicum \nLive Modules – attendance highly encouraged\, recordings will be available of modules after\nthe LIVE session:\n● October 30 | Module 4: GPS Realities and Principles\n● November 6 | Module 6: GPS Reflective Listening\, Weaving\, Grounding and Closing \nRecordings:\n● Module 1: The Impact of Trauma and the Healing Power of Groups\n● Module 2: GPS Mindfulness Rest Stop\n● Module 3: GPS Guidelines\n● Module 5: GPS Check-In \nCost: A limited number of spots are available for WA state residents for a fee of $250. \nTraining Objectives: \n\nA trauma-informed\, culturally responsive support group model that is easy to learn and implement in diverse settings\, with diverse populations\, and in multiple languages.\nHow to address the intersection of trauma\, racism\, poverty\, disparities\, cultural and gender identity\, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic\, with compassion\, transparency\, and skill.\nUnique trauma-informed skills to create environments of mutual respect\, non-judgement\, compassion\, and safety.\nHow to incorporate evidence-based approaches of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy\, Motivational Interviewing\, and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction in groups.\nA strengths-based group approach that ensures an accessible\, welcoming\, and transformational group experience for all.\nHow to run groups that support\, empower and benefit not only the individuals and communities being served\, but the group facilitators as well.\n\n*REGISTRATION CLOSED* \n* Social Work CEUs are available. Inquire about other continuing educational credits at info@grouppeersupport.org. \nTraining and registration questions please direct to PS-WA at training@perinatalsupport.org \nAfter the training participants who attend the training through PS-WA will be invited to attend a follow-up session on December 11th @ 11am PT about implementing the model and next steps. 
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/gps-oct2025/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:ContinuingEducation,Provider Training
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