Good Morning and Welcome to the HRSA Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs (IEA) Regions 5, 6, 7’s final webinar of the Maternal Health Webinar Series. Today’s webinar is on Utilizing Telehealth to Address Maternal Health Challenges. 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.  

Speaker biographies and presentations will be shared in the Chat Box for downloading. If you would like a copy of the documents, please select PDF files to download to your computer.

HRSA IEA’s Opening Presentation

HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau Presentation (PDF) – Dawn Levinson

There will be a question and answer session after the final speaker's 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!

Featured Speaker Bios for today’s webinar (PDF)

states only can provide?

Hi Angela, wanting to clarify your question, are you asking if only State Health Departments can apply for this funding program?

The slide set provided in the link above does not have all the slides being presented. Will a complete set be sent after the webinar?

Yes, the recording link and the slides will be sent to everyone that registered in about a week.

HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau Presentation (PDF) – Dawn Levinson

Can you please share the link for the hotline?

Will this line be accessible in languages other than Eng/Spanish?

https://mchb.hrsa.gov/national-maternal-mental-health-hotline

Spanish-https://mchb.hrsa.gov/linea-nacional-salud-mental-materna

If you are in suicidal crisis, please call or text 988 or visit the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. https://988lifeline.org/

Can you add that link here to explore grant funding opportunities for screening/etc for maternal depression please?

National Maternal Mental Health Hotline counselors offer support in English and Spanish and interpreter services are available in 60 additional languages, upon request, when someone calls: 1-833-9-HELP4MOMS (1-833-943-5746)

https://mchb.hrsa.gov/ Then click on FUNDING at the top

Kansas Connecting Communities (KCC) Presentation (PDF)- Patricia Carrillo

Yes, https://mchb.hrsa.gov/ Then click on FUNDING at the top. You can select Open Opportunities or Upcoming Opportunities (where you will find forecasts of MDRBD and PMHCA)

Where does this data come from and how is it obtained?

Reminder: Please fill free to type your questions in the chat box located at the bottom of your screen. There will be a question and answer session after the final speaker's presentation. Your questions are welcome and encouraged!

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What proactive strategies are underway to facilitate mental health secondary to the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade?

why was direct assessment of patients not sustainable.

What were the screening tools that you found to be appropriate to the virtual setting? (Question for Kansas Connecting Communities)

Can the resources be added to the chat to be able to link to them please? They are not linking from the slide for me. Thank you!

Nicely done - that was wonderful info and delivery - thank you

https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/457/MCH-Integration-Toolkits https://www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov/DocumentCenter/View/361/Interim-Guidance-for-MCH-Services-Perinatal-Infant-PDF---022822 https://heartlandtrc.org/ https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/telemedicine-and-pregnancy-care/ https://www.kumc.edu/community-engagement/our-divisions/project-echo.html

Preeclampsia Foundation Presentation (PDF) – Laney Poye

Was there any baseline data before you started BHC services?

Sounds great! I will follow up via email. Thank you!

Thank you!

can you go back to the previous slide

This was great. thank you!