Meeting recap - April 24, 2020

Welcome
Thank you to the 30+ people who joined our meeting via Zoom!  This meeting  -- our only so far on Zoom - provided us an opportunity to 'debrief,' and process some of the shifts and challenges in our perinatal mental health-related work - in the context of COVID-19. 

Study Group News

• PMHPSG Future 2020 Meeting Dates
  -Summer 2020 Happy hour event (TBD)-Please email Sara if you’d like to host or help plan!
  -Wednesday, Sept 2nd;   9:00-10:30am   [Proposed topic:  Perinatal Loss]
  -Monday, Nov 16th;   9:00-10:30am
• Bayview’s Postpartum Support Group has transitioned to virtual Zoom meetings during the course of the pandemic. This FREE virtual group will be offered weekly, on Thursdays from 11am-12pm.  If you would like to refer a postpartum mother, please have them email Sara at sdaly9@jh.edu for details.  The Zoom link is being shared individually for now, with those who have had some direct contact with Bayview’s PMDC staff - via phone, email, etc.
  
  

Introductions
Great to ‘see’ everyone!  Please briefly tell us about yourself, and your work with perinatal women.

Resource Sharing
We invite everyone to share new and 'adjusted' PMH resources - local, online, and beyond - with the group.  This information can be shared via announcement, and/ or by adding to the shared resource document, available through Google Docs.
[Find entries from the group by clicking this link.]

Discussion
Today’s Discussion Topic was modified due to COVID-19, from our originally planned topic: ‘Telehealth with perinatal women’!  Since all of us have had to quickly adapt and change our work during the pandemic -- and are therefore already providing telehealth or virtual services of some kind -- we think it’s more appropriate to use today’s meeting to debrief and support one another. 

So… a few questions to get us started:
-How has our work with perinatal women changed during COVID-19?  
-How are WE all managing the ‘weight’ of the crisis, as COVID-19 persists in our lives and the lives of those we serve?
-What (new and longstanding) tools are you finding most useful in your current work?
-What have been your biggest challenges, and most encouraging successes?
-How can we best support one another as we do this work — now and moving forward?  

Staying Connected
We are all stronger together -- for ourselves, and for the families we serve.  **To join our resource/ info sharing platform, search Google Groups for “Baltimore Perinatal Mental Health Professional Study Group” and request an invite.  Email Sara with questions: sdaly9@jhmi.edu.

                                                                  Thanks for joining us today!
                                                    **Sorry, no CEUs available for today’s meeting**

                                       Hope to see you at our next meeting, on September 2nd at 9:00am
                    *Also, please keep an eye out for a possible summertime happy hour event (pandemic permitting)*