Good Afternoon and Welcome to the Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs (IEA) Maternal Health Webinar Series. Today’s webinar is on AddressingMaternal Health in a Time of COVID-19. We would like to recognize that May encompasses Mental Health Awareness Month and Women's Health Week. To enable close captioning for the webinar, click on the "more" button located at the bottom of your screen and the select "show subtitles" from the pop-up menu.  

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Good afternoon. Carmen Hubbard (PrimaryOne Health OB Intake Nurse Agler Rd)

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Speaker biographies can be found here in the chat box. If you would like a copy of the documents, please click PDF files to download to your computer.

Good afternoon, all! Kate Dobler, Arizona AHCCCS-Medicaid, PPW-PLT Project Director

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Michael Howard, ARCH Community Health Coalition, rural western Kentucky

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Good Afternoon! Patricia Cole, MTBaby Mass

Good afternoon from George Shade, M.D.-Detroit Community Health Connection.

There will be a question-and-answer session after the final speaker presentation. Please feel free to type your questions in the Chat box located at the bottom of your screen. Your questions are welcome and encouraged! 

Hello. Brenda Hambelton, BSN, RN Ozark County Health Department. Rural Missouri

good afternoon everyone.. Judy Kobylarz-Dillard, CCHW- Executive Director of The B.E.R.E.A.D.Y Project located in Torrington a grassroots initiative to support and empower youth and families struggling with mental health and related issues through community collaboration. thebereadyproject@gmail.com 860-294-4181

Hi Everyone! Chris Stallman, MLS, MS, CGC - MotherToBaby Arizona at the University of Arizona in Tucson, serving the states of Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, New Mexico, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Hello all! Nicole Greer with MotherToBaby/OTIS

https://mothertobaby.org/

Hello, Charleta B. Tavares with PrimaryOne Health

Please feel free to email me anytime with questions after today at ngreer@mothertobaby.org

Are the positive COVID-19 transmissions during breast feeding predominately in unvaccinated mothers or vaccinated mother as well?

Can you please share your contact information?

Have you connected with African/Black media and community groups?

Is there a Mother To Baby group in CT?

Yes we are in CT at MotherToBaby@uchc.edu

CT service covers CT, VT, DE, PA, VA, WV and NJ.

Reminder: Please fill free to type your questions, type your questions in the chat box located at the bottom of your screen.

Lauren Kozlowski, MotherToBaby GA at Emory University

Charleta, yes, we have done some outreach to Africa/Black media and community groups but we would love to do more I would love to have your email address so that we can connect on this more? Thank you. Nicole

Charleta B. Tavares, PrimaryOne Health ctavares@primaryonehealth.org

George Shade, thank you for your question on positive COVID transmission during breastfeeding if it is predominantly un unvaccinated or vaccinated mothers- i am gong to make sure that one of our counselors can answer that for you here in this chat or after over email if you are wiling to share your email.

Hello! I’m interested to hear what kind of research is being done regarding the effects of Covid-19 virus on the placenta - resulting in placental abruption, preterm birth, stillbirth, etc.

FDA announced today that children 5 and up are now eligible for boosters! https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-expands-eligibility-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-booster-dose

Good afternoon...Beth Conover, MotherToBaby Nebraska...I am enjoying the presentations by our fellow OTIS-experts!

Will these slides be available to us?

The slides have been uploaded into the chat box.

Thank you for the slides

Thank you for sharing the mental health challenges of pregnant moms during COVID-19.

I can relate so much to this, both my own experiences and those of my friends/doula clients. I feel very seen! Thank you.

National Maternal Mental Health Hotline: https://mchb.hrsa.gov/national-maternal-mental-health-hotline

with the slides be emailed out please? I joined after the chat

Very excited about the hotline! Thank you!

Hi Judith, yes the slides be shared in a follow-up email along with the recording to today's webinar within 1 week from today

The hotline is an awesome resource especially in all those languages this is great.

Great! Thank you so much!

Is this National Hotline available to other countries as well? Or just individuals in the USA?

Yes this is awesome, are these slides also available about the hotline?

Thank you for thinking of providing the services in multiple languages.

Would you mind emailing us the PowerPoint presentation please? Thank you.

The slides will be shared in a follow-up email along with the recording to the webinar within 1 week from today.

Wonderful thank you!

Hi Kathiana, yes the slides be shared in a follow-up email along with the recording to today's webinar within 1 week from today

I work for a native American community and there were no statistics on preventable infant deaths for natives

Can we get flyers for the hotline in English, Spanish, Polish?

Will the Maternal Mental Health Hotline team-up with other hotlines ? For exemple: The National Suicide Hotline, the Crisis Care Hotline, etc.

MotherToBaby also provides many fact sheets on medications used to treat mental health issues right?

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Thank you!

Yes Lauren I believe so, I have printed some before and provided to my clients

Yes, thank you Lauren!

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Will it be possible to email me some of the flyers so I can share them with my supervisors please ?

Thanks a lot !

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Such great information as a home visitor Thank you all!!

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Great information thank you

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