Postpartum Support Group

Using certified community health workers to facilitate a Spanish-speaking support groups based on the “Mothers and Babies” curriculum from Northwestern University. The “Mothers and Babies” curriculum is a six-session series “that promotes healthy mood management by teaching pregnant women and new moms how to effectively respond to stress in their lives through increasing the frequency of thoughts and behaviors that lead to positive mood states. Designed as a perinatal depression prevention, the Mothers and Babies targets three specific risk factors: limited social support, lack of pleasant activities, and harmful thought patterns”. [Healthy Start EPIC Center, Mothers and Babies program description] Support groups will be offered in both Hood River and The Dalles. Support groups would be 10-12 women per session, and it would be open to all Spanish-speaking mothers of children 5 years old and under regardless of insurance status.

Lead organization: One Community Health

Contact: Brooke Nicholls, FNP