2-Part Series on Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health with Emerging Leaders in the Field
Thursday, August 12 and 17, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM EDT
Session 1, August 12: EMBRACE Perinatal Care for Expecting Black Families: Perinatal Mental Health Seeding Self Determination & Liberation (in the spirit of Sankofa)
Black women experience unacceptably high rates of health inequity in pregnancy with higher rates of pre-term birth, cesarean sections, and death. In addition, Black women are more likely to report lower quality of care, including discrimination, which contributes to poor maternal and neonatal outcomes. Developed as a response to these outcomes, EMBRACE is a perinatal care program that provides race-concordant social, emotional, and medical care to expecting Black families.
This webinar focuses on the provision of perinatal mental health services, one component of EMBRACE's bundle of care. These services emphasize and affirm a racial socialization that will pave the way for a paradigm rooted in pride, knowledge of self, and return to a communal consciousness as a buffer to weathering, mental health degradation, and exasperation of overall well-being during pregnancy and transition into parenthood.
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