TA & Support Center COVID-19 Events & Offerings

 

Webinar Recordings

  • Beyond COVID-19: Breastfeeding Webinar Series
    • To support Healthy Start grantees in providing breastfeeding support and meeting the two breastfeeding benchmarks, the Healthy Start TA & Support Center (TASC) launched a three-part Beyond COVID-19: Breastfeeding Webinar Series that ran from November 2021 through January 2022. The goal of this webinar series is to enhance and strengthen Healthy Start grantees’ capacity to meet their client’s breastfeeding needs as we continue to navigate the changing landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic. The series featured Cathy Carothers, IBCLC, FILCA, of Every Mother, Inc, who facilitated the previous TASC’s COVID-19 & Breastfeeding Webinar Series. Webinar topics included: Building Community Partnerships to Promote and Support Breastfeeding, Demystifying the Secrets to Making Milk, and Common Challenges and Complex Infant Breastfeeding Problems. Click the links below to view recordings and materials from each session:
  • COVID-19 Listening Session with Consumers
    • In June 2020, the Healthy Start TASC held a listening session to learn about the COVID-19 related challenges consumers/participants were facing. This conversation was facilitated by Tamela Milan, MPPA. Tamela is a member of the Healthy Start Faculty Planning Committee and is a Maternal and Child Health Outreach Worker at Access Community Health Network. To view the session recording, please click here.
  • Networking Café: Enduring Challenges Amidst COVID-19
    • Networking cafés are informal lunchtime sessions, which provide Healthy Start staff an opportunity to come together and share their experiences, challenges, and strategies around a specific topic. This session, which was held in June 2021, focused on continued challenges due to COVID-19. Healthy Start staff shared challenges they are experiencing due to COVID-19, as well as strategies that have helped their teams continue to support families amidst COVID-19. To view the session recording, please click here.
  • Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting Series
    • TASC hosted the Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting Program (RR-VHV) webinar series which discussed the challenges around providing virtual home visiting services during the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunities that virtual service delivery provides, and strategies for building and sustaining strong relationships with families virtually. This series ran from April through May 2021 and the primary topic was Engaging Families in Virtual Connection. Click the links below to view recordings and materials from each session.
  • Virtual Grantees Meeting 2021 Breakout Session: COVID From Consumers’ Perspective
    • During the 2021 Virtual Grantees Meeting, there was a breakout session aimed at addressing how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered lives around the world but has had a particularly profound and disproportionate impact on Healthy Start consumers and frontline workers. This breakout session invited Healthy Start consumers, frontline staff, and other partners to the “collective table” to discuss and explore the challenges, changes, losses, and gains experienced by consumers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This session was led by former Healthy Start consumer and current ACCESS Westside Healthy Start Community Action Network Coordinator, Tamela Milan-Alexander, MPPA; and two current ACCESS Westside Healthy Start Consumer Leaders, Amanda Henley and Dakisha Mitchell. This session provided a space and place for participants to voice their experiences and listen and learn from their peers. Additionally, the session equipped participants with tangible tools to navigate the ever-changing landscape around COVID.
    • By the end of the session, participants had:
      • Developed a collective understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on Healthy Start consumers and frontline staff’s wellbeing
      • Built connections with fellow consumers and frontline staff
      • Learned tools and resources to manage the stress and challenges consumers and frontline staff continue to face
    • To view the session recording, please click here.
  • Virtual Grantees Meeting 2021 Breakout Session: How to Build Engaging and Effective Hybrid Services
    • Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Healthy Start projects faced the challenging task of providing many of their services virtually for the first time. As we return to more in-person interactions, projects may still be interested in providing some services virtually. During this session, Eli Mast and Jennifer Briseño of Joint Early Learning Ideas discussed the benefits and challenges of virtual, in-person, and hybrid service delivery models.
    • They shared examples of various hybrid modalities to support Healthy Start projects in developing and adapting a model that best fits their needs. The speakers also discussed how to build and maintain relationships with adults and children, as well as creative strategies to successfully engage them, in both an in-person and virtual format.
    • By the end of the session, participants had:
      • Understand the benefits and challenges of virtual, hybrid, and in-person services.
      • Understand the process for developing a hybrid model that fits the need of their program.
      • Learn strategies to build rapport with adults and children using a hybrid model.
      • Learn concrete examples of how to engage adults and children in a hybrid model.
    • To view the session recording, please click here.

 

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