Jenny’s Light 2010 Grant Awards
GRANTS ACCEPTED – Total amount $32,507
States reached: Michigan, Massachusetts, Ohio, Virginia, Arizona and California
1. MOMS BLOOM (MI) – $4,150
Funds are being requested to fund our Flourishing Families program that provides physical and emotional postpartum support to families. Funds will help support our volunteer development as well as our parenting support group and the Out Came the Sun event that raises awareness of perinatal mood disorders. www.momsbloom.org,
2. BOSTON U - $4k
Requesting funding to create and produce educational materials and presentations about PPD specifically geared toward military families. The materials and presentations will be available to New England Guard and Reserve members through the Yellow Ribbon Initiative which hosts extended workshops for Guard/Reserve families throughout the deployment lifecycle.
3. POEM (OH) – $3,135
POEM seeks to increase recognition of symptoms of perinatal mood disorders and improve awareness of currently available support resources in 7 geographic areas of Ohio. To achieve this goal, POEM requests funds to conduct a full-day workshopfor training of support coordinators and for distribution of informational materials in targeted areas. Specific costs for the conference are the food and beverage, travel expenses of the coordinators, course materials, staff wages and consultant fees. The specific costs for the informational and awareness materials are brochures, posters, flyers, business cards, letters to health care providers, promotional clips, folders and partial funding of the telephone support lines.http://www.poemonline.org/
4. PP VIRGINIA – $6,000
To improve provider capacity to recognize and treat perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (including symptom knowledge and identification and knowledge of supportive resources). This program will provide education and outreach about perinatal mood and anxiety disorders to maternal health care providers affiliated with two local hospitals, including childbirth educators (15), obstetrician/gynecologists (250), and hospital nursing staff (50). Topics to be discussed include: causes and risk factors, signs and symptoms, and treatment options. PSVa will provide written materials to be distributed to patients. http://www.postpartumva.org/
5. ARIZONA PP – $7,750
The Arizona Postpartum Wellness Coalition’s primary need right now is to increase education on perinatal mood disorders for providers and families throughout the state. To begin to address this great need, APWC proposes “Operation Education”, which would enable us to 1) develop brief standardized educational presentations, 2) train motivated members to present these educational programs throughout the state, 3) print PMD informational brochures with the warm-line information to be distributed to the communities at educational programs, and 4) host our 9th 2-Day Training, Perinatal Mood Disorders: Evaluation and Treatment, thus training providers throughout the state and improving the quality of our resource options in AZ. http://www.azpostpartum.org/
6. LA TASK FORCE – $6,758
The goal of this project is to increase the capacity of community health and social service providers to detect perinatal mood disorders and assist women to access treatment by creating and disseminating a Community Perinatal Mental Health ToolKit for front-line practitioners in community service settings. The Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Task Force is seeking $6758 for the design of materials, duplication, and distribution of 250 ToolKits that will be will be a central component of a perinatal mood disorders pilot training program to be implemented as part of the Magnolia Place Community Initiative, a place-based community health improvement project targeted at a high risk, diverse, low income women in Los Angeles. The lessons learned will influence the development of state and national efforts to increase provider’s capacity to detect and treat perinatal mood disorders. http://www.lacountyperinatalmentalhealth.org/
7. Hartnell College (Salinas CA) – $714.90
This grant will allow the nursing program at Hartnell College to purchase DVDs and facilitator resources on Post Partum Depression. These added audiovisual resources will help in further educating nursing students about the signs and symptoms of post partum depression Students will then be able to use this additional information in discharge teaching for their post partum patients and families. It is the long term goal that graduates of the nursing program will provide excellent care for their post partum patients as registered nurses.
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