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Welcome to the August 2024 issue of Prenatal - 5: Grow & Thrive - HCA’s monthly newsletter about our behavioral health work in the early years of life. We hope that this newsletter helps build shared awareness of HCA’s efforts in this area and provides a centralized place to stay up to date on what’s new and happening.
In this edition
- Welcome to new HCA staff
- All about the State of Fatherhood study
- Events and training
- Child-Parent Psychotherapy open houses
- Early Childhood Systems of Care learning series
- DC:0-5 Clinical training
- MHAYC Provider Spotlight series
- Mom’s Access Project ECHO
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In July, HCA welcomed a new staff member into our broader prenatal – age five behavioral health team. Annie Hodges joins HCA’s Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery as the Fetal Substance Exposure Policy Administrator. Annie will focus on services and supports for children, caregivers, and families who are affected by prenatal substance exposure, including those who are at risk of child welfare involvement. Annie brings nearly a decade of social service work experience, primarily working in community mental health and the child welfare system.
Welcome, Annie!
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The Barnard Center for Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health is supporting the launch of another Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Learning Collaborative. CPP is an evidence-based practice for mental health treatment for children ages 0-5 and their caregiver(s).
Interested providers should attend a virtual Open House to learn more and express interest in participating. There are two options for attendance.
September 6, 13, and 20 | 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. | Virtual. In this three-part training series, attendees will engage in a deep dive of strategic ways to map early childhood community resources, which are the nuts and bolts of expanding SOC implementation strategies. Participants will explore equitable trauma informed practices and systems that directly impact families, children and the early childhood workforce.
Note: This training is provided by the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health (NTTAC). NTTAC is a SAMHSA-funded initiative to improve evidence-based mental health services for children and families.
Still haven’t attended a DC:0-5 training or have new staff that need DC:0-5 training? Attended a DC:0-5 training but want to learn more? The following professional development opportunities are provided at no-cost by the IECMH-WC, and they are open to providers who serve children and families enrolled in Apple Health.
DC: 0 – 5 Clinical Training | 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day | Virtual. This 12-hour training is designed to support mental health professionals in developing in-depth knowledge of the approach and content of DC:0-5. Multiple offerings are available:
- September 16, 17, and 18, 2024
- October 11, 18, and 25, 2024
The MHAYC Provider Spotlight series is intended to support providers in implementing MHAYC at their organizations. Each spotlight will focus on different aspects of MHAYC implementation and feature organizations who are putting it into practice.
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October 24, 2024 | 11 a.m. to noon: Gathering Information Part I – Structuring Assessment Sessions and Cultural Considerations
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January 23, 2025 | 11 a.m. to noon: Gathering Information Part II – Screenings, Collateral Information, and Referrals
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April 24, 2025 | 11 a.m. to noon: Assessments in Home & Community Settings
Did you miss our July Provider Spotlight? Watch the recording to hear how two different behavioral health agencies trained staff, created workflows, and updated EHRs to start providing multi-session assessments and using the DC:0-5.
1st Wednesdays of the month from September 2024 through July 2025 | Noon to 1 p.m. | Virtual.
The upcoming MAP ECHO will focus on:
- identifying common mental health and substance use disorders in the perinatal period.
- formulating treatment plans.
- understanding the benefits and risks of medication (psychotropics, MAT) during pregnancy and lactation.
- appreciating the role of racism and stigma in treatment engagement.
The series is facilitated by a multidisciplinary team including UW Medicine perinatal psychiatrists, obstetrician gynecologists, maternal fetal medicine experts, advanced registered nurse practitioners, therapists and social workers. Each monthly session includes a didactic and a case discussion, and CMEs are available.
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Fathers play an important role in the lives of young children, even before they are born. Research has shown that father involvement during pregnancy increases the likelihood that pregnant people will reduce drinking, drug use and smoking (Mincy, 2015), and father involvement during the first years of life has positive impacts on children’s social skills and emotional regulation (Yogman & Garfield, 2016).
Founded in 2018, the Washington Fatherhood Council is dedicated to fostering a father-friendly culture throughout the state. Its mission is to amplify the voices of fathers and father figures, strengthen families, and maximize children’s potential.
The Washington Fatherhood Council, in collaboration with Camber Collective Consulting Group and researchers from the University of Washington, launched an effort to evaluate the state of fatherhood support across Washington. The State of Fatherhood in Washington Study is a first-of-its-kind effort to assess the current state of the Washington fatherhood ecosystem, in order to develop a clearer understanding of progress among individual agencies, programs, and policies.
Many different state agencies, including HCA, contributed to the study by sharing about current programs, data points, bright spots, and commitments to support fathers. HCA’s agency overview highlighted efforts to ensure services like residential substance use treatment and mental health screening are intentionally inclusive of fathers.
The study also elevated the voices of dads across the state. As one father on the Washington Fatherhood Council shared,
“When me and my son's mom split up, she was going through undiagnosed post-partum depression, so that affected me and my mental health. We worked with a midwife, but she never asked me how I was doing. They never asked "hey, how are you doing? How's your mental health?" I've never heard of someone screening for a partner, or those kind of questions being asked to them.”
Across the state, the study found that fathers and fatherhood figures do experience stigmas and inequities, and representation of fathers is limited. Increased cross-agency funding, planning and coordination on fatherhood inclusion are needed, especially to develop data systems and to align policies. However, momentum is growing toward mindsets shifting and agency partners engaging with fathers and inviting this perspective into their work.
To learn more about the report, the recent Fatherhood Summit, and other resources like Fatherhood Community Cafes, visit the Washington Fatherhood Council webpage.
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You can find earlier editions of this newsletter on our IECMH webpage, under IECMH updates.
Prenatal – 5: Grow & Thrive is also a spin-off newsletter of HCA’s Prenatal – 25: Thrive newsletter, which focuses on behavioral health for the entire age span of pregnancy to early adulthood. If you missed it, check out the most recent edition of the P-25 Thrive newsletter.
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