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Outreach
WellMama provides free outreach presentations and perinatal professional training to medical, mental health and community service offices and/or groups. These outreach presentations are tailored to the group’s needs and can vary in length of time. Training topics cover: WellMama’s programming and services, how to refer to WellMama, perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMADs), identification and screening, and communication skills. WellMama also offers a Perinatal Health summit. This two-day conference in Eugene, Oregon, covers the latest science and clinical recommendations related to pregnancy and postpartum mental health,with guest speakers representing research, clinical practice, community health, and more. It is recommended for all professionals who work with new and expectant parents.
Education
WellMama provides education around perinatal anxiety, perinatal bipolar mood disorder, perinatal depression, perinatal OCD, perinatal PTSD, and perinatal psychosis. They offer wellness workshops that cover self-care and processing techniques, with the goal of fostering concrete skills that can help parents get through a difficult time.
Support
Support groups provide a safe place to share the challenges of pregnancy and early parenting, connect with other parents, and learn tools for wellness. Support groups are open to parentsand support persons, and all services are free. Peer support groups are run by trained volunteer support parents, many of whom have recovered from emotional illnesses during or after pregnancy. They provide information, referrals, compassion, and non-judgmental listening to other parents who have experienced a similar paren4ng struggle. Current support groups include pregnancy during COVID-19, pregnancy and postpartum support, coastal babies support, parents of crawlers/toddlers, pregnancy and infant loss support, infertility support, and a meetup for dads and partners group.
Wellness
Connection to resources and opportunities to learn wellness tools for all around wellbeing. Parents enjoy these with our Wellness Workshops that we hold in-person and virtually. With donations we are able to offer these workshop at no cost or donation based.
We Couldn't Do It Without YOU!
WellMama’s support services would not be possible without the ongoing financial support of our community. We are truly a grassroots organization, and every contribution makes a difference, whether it’s $5 or $500.
Thanks to YOU, our services are provided FREE to all parents who are struggling. Thanks to YOU, we are able to reach more and more families each year, to ensure no parent has to struggle in silence. Thanks to YOU, we are increasing the accessibility of our support services, making sure to meet families where they are to provide culturally-matched, inclusive support.
Our non-profit TAX ID #: 80-0313696
