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Welcome to the March 2025 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. |
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Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) is an evidence-based practice for dyadic infant-early childhood mental health therapy. Several CPP learning collaboratives have been offered in Washington over the past few years, and the most recent learning collaborative has been provided in partnership with the Barnard Center, Perigee Fund, and HCA. As a result of these efforts, most regions of the state have at least one behavioral health agency providing CPP.
Washington’s work to support CPP statewide was recently highlighted by the national CPP Dissemination and Implementation team in a State Policy Feature. The feature showcases the impact of public-private partnerships, policy, and financing to advance Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) best practices.
Interested in CPP training for your agency? Learn more at a CPP Open House, in the Events section.
The Perinatal Psychiatry Consultation Line (Perinatal PCL) offers free provider-to-provider consultations to health care providers in Washington State. Online scheduling is now available on an ongoing basis for general perinatal psychiatry consultations and consultations that include questions about co-occurring substance use. Consultations are with Dr. Nadia Bespalova, a perinatal psychiatrist with expertise in co-occurring substance use.
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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 Birth-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.
- April 7, 2025 | 1 to 2 p.m.
- April 17, 2025 | 9 to 10 a.m.
April 9, 2025 | 9 a.m. to noon | This interactive workshop is designed to help all providers who support families of young children to identify, refer, and coordinate around infant-early childhood mental health (IECMH) concerns.
You will learn about:
- The basics of IECMH, including key principles and influences.
- Indicators that IECMH treatment services may be needed.
- How to support families in anticipating and obtaining IECMH services.
- How to collaborate with other providers around families’ IECMH needs.
This training is open all professionals whose work supports the families of children birth – age five enrolled in Apple Health (Medicaid). Your feedback about this training will help to inform future developments, and so all are encouraged to attend and engage!
April 17, 2025 | 2 to 5 p.m. | This training is designed for leadership and administrative staff working in behavioral health systems and agencies. It provides an overview of the Mental Health Assessment for Young Children (MHAYC) policy, including the background, approach, and content areas of DC:0-5™ Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC:0-5). Apple Health guidance and concrete strategies for billing, documentation, and overall agency implementation are embedded throughout.
April 24, 2025 | 11 a.m. to noon: The MHAYC Provider Spotlight series supports providers implement MHAYC at their organizations. Each spotlight will focus on different part of MHAYC process and highlight organizations using it. In this session, providers will share about how they conduct assessments in natural settings, such as in homes, early learning centers, and other community locations.
Want to learn more? Visit HCA’s IECMH webpage to view recordings and slides from past Spotlights.
This 12-hour training is designed to support mental health professionals (MHPs) in developing in-depth knowledge of the approach and content of DC:0-5, understanding the multi-axial system, and utilizing the approach and system in their work with children birth through age five. There are just three more opportunities to attend a DC:0-5 Clinical trainings during this state fiscal year:
- May 5-7, 2025 | 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day
- May 21-23, 2025 | 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day
- June 6, 13, and 20, 2025 | 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day
Would you like a streamlined and personable assessment of child and/or family mental health? Toxic stress underlies most mental health diagnoses and exacerbates virtually all of them. This 3-hour, interactive online training will help you better understand the root of the problem by introducing you to the Neuro-Relational Framework’s stress assessments.
This training will be offered twice, with one offering tailored specifically for those who supervise mental health professionals.
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May 6, 2025 | 9 a.m. to noon (tailored specifically for supervisors)
- May 22, 2025 | 9 a.m. to noon
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Welcome to the newest section of our newsletter, Ask the Reader. In this section, you can participate in a Menti poll with other readers. These polls will provide a fun (and anonymous) way to connect with each other.
It’s Women’s History Month, and this month’s Spotlight is about the Women’s Services Network, so our question is:
Who is a woman you admire?
To participate, click the link below, which will take you to a Menti poll site. Once you’ve completed the poll, you can click ‘View the Results’ on the next screen to see how other readers voted. Tune in next month to see the final results!
Last month we asked: What is your favorite oral hygiene tool? Here’s what you all shared!
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March is Women’s History Month, and so we are spotlighting The Women’s Services Network (WSN). The WSN is a specialty component group of the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD), dedicated to effective substance use disorder service delivery for women and their families. Since 2007, The WSN has worked to ensure that the unique treatment and recovery needs of women and their families are addressed and facilitates collaboration with other public and private service agencies that serve women and their families. The WSN also provides resources on women’s substance abuse services, including strategies for improving collaboration with child welfare programs, provided supported housing and employment services, unique considerations for Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) during menopause, and more.
The members of the WSN, or Women’s Services Coordinators, are representatives of the Single State Agencies (SSAs) and are designated to lead women-specific substance use issues within their states. HCA is Washington’s single state agency (SSA) for addressing substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery, and Sarah Pine, Behavioral Health Program Manager for Pregnant and Parenting Women’s (PPW) services and special projects, represents HCA as Washington’s Women’s Services Coordinator for the WSN. Sarah also serves as the Region X representative for Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
There are many efforts across the state of Washington that support the WSN’s goal of effective, socially responsive service delivery for all women at risk for or who have a substance use disorder. Key efforts from HCA include supporting the Parent Child Assistance Program (PCAP), partnering with sister state agencies around the Plan of Safe Care, and developing billing guidance that supports dyadic behavioral health care for women and their children.
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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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