Working with Title V

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Working with Title V

• 4th Annual Educational Conference
• Dates January 12 13, 2006
• Theme Making the Difference
• Location Sheraton Fiesta
• 310 Padre Boulevard
• South Padre Island, TX

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Working with Title V

• Conference Description
• Conference participants will learn how human
  development training is geared to help health
  educators, social workers, nurses and promotoras
  better understand the behavior change process in
  the work they do as educators.
• Social interactive and learning processes will be
  used to demonstrate the cognitive behavior model
  and basic facilitation skills.

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• Participants will
• Be able to recognize the behavior cognitive
  process and its relationship with their role as
  social workers or health educators
• Be able to develop a personal management plan
  that will help them prioritize their personal and
  professional roles and responsibilities and
• Increase their facilitation skills using an
  empathic approach to help their patients/clients
  problem solve.

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• Conference Highlights
• March of Dimes Pre-Conference Workshop - Nursing
  Module
• Cultural Competence in the Care of
  Childbearing Families
• Keynote Speaker Robin Dochen
  
  Atwood, Ed. D.,
  University of Texas at Austin, Department of
  Kinesiology and Health Education
• Training Module - Alberto Trevino, BA
• The Human Development Process and its
  Integration on Health Education
• Motivational Speaker Albesa Abby Vela, RN,
  CEO
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Partnering Sponsors
Host Healthy Start site
Texas Healthy Start Alliance Brownsville Dallas
Fort Worth Houston Laredo San Antonio
For more information [phone]
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• Perinatal Depression Networking, Education and
  Training -- PDNET
• First meeting October 2003. (Has been meeting
  regularly ever since.)
• Vision  A Texas where perinatal mood disorders
  are recognized and treated with compassion
  without judgment.

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• Mission  To facilitate the identification,
  treatment and access to care of women
  experiencing perinatal mood disorders.
• Goals
• Increase awareness about prenatal mood disorders.
• Increase the availability of resources and
  treatment.
• Increase access to mental health services.

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• Membership
• Obstetricians, mental health providers,
  representatives from TMA, TAOG, Association of
  Texas Midwives, La Leche League, Doulas of North
  American, Heart of Texas Lactaton Consultants,
  MOD, TxHSA, Mental Health Association of Houston,
  Family Connections, academia, the clergy,
  pharmacy companies, consumers, HHSC and DSHS
  staff, and other interested parties.

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• Activities 
• Pamphlet Debby Cortez spearheaded a project to
  develop a public awareness pamphlet on the topic
  of perinatal depression.
• Overtime, the project has morphed into becoming a
  component of the SB 316, Information for Parents
  of Newborn Children, brochure. 
• This brochure, which addresses newborn screening,
  immunization and shaken baby syndrome in addition
  to perinatal depression, is currently available
  in English and Spanish on the DSHS Maternal and
  Child Health website and will soon be available
  for ordering from the DSHS warehouse. 

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• Pilot Project  
• A subcommittee that included PDNET members from
  TXHSA, UTHSCSA and DSHS developed Healthy
  Families, Healthy Communities, a multifactoral
  model in three phases 
• Phase I - Community Awareness Outreach
• Phase II - Provider Training
• Phase III - Screening, Triage and Referral.

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• Warmline
• With the loss of the Postpartum Resource Center
  of Texas 24/7 multilingual hotline, PDNET is
  looking at options to ensure that this needed
  triage and referral service is provided in
  Texas.