TY - JOUR
KW - Child
KW - Child Health Services
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Female
KW - Health Promotion
KW - Humans
KW - Infant
KW - Mental Health Services
KW - Mothers
KW - Poverty
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Infant mental health
KW - integrated behavioral health
KW - maternal depression
KW - maternal mental health
KW - perinatal mental health
KW - WIC
AU - S. Klawetter
AU - K. Glaze
AU - A. Sward
AU - K. A. Frankel
A1 - 
AB - Low-income women experience disproportionately high rates of adverse maternal mental health outcomes, such as pregnancy-related depression, and have less access to behavioral health support. Adverse maternal mental health affects children through compromising bonding, impeding early childhood development, and increasing risks of child maltreatment. Integrated behavioral health approaches can improve access to behavioral health services by locating services in community-based settings routinely accessed by low-income families. Warm Connections is an innovative integrated behavioral health program delivered in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and rooted in an infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) framework. This exploratory study describes Warm Connections and provides evaluation results from its pilot implementation. Findings suggest Warm Connections may reduce distress and increase parenting efficacy among low-income mothers and support further research of this program's feasibility.
AD - School of Social Work, Portland State University, PO Box 751-SSW, Portland, OR, 97207, USA. skla2@pdx.edu.; Department of Psychiatry, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13001 E. 17th Place, Box F546, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13001 E. 17th Place, Box F546, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.; Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13001 E. 17th Place, Box F546, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
BT - Community mental health journal
C5 - Financing & Sustainability; Healthcare Disparities
CP - 6
DO - 10.1007/s10597-020-00744-y
IS - 6
JF - Community mental health journal
LA - eng
M1 - Journal Article
N2 - Low-income women experience disproportionately high rates of adverse maternal mental health outcomes, such as pregnancy-related depression, and have less access to behavioral health support. Adverse maternal mental health affects children through compromising bonding, impeding early childhood development, and increasing risks of child maltreatment. Integrated behavioral health approaches can improve access to behavioral health services by locating services in community-based settings routinely accessed by low-income families. Warm Connections is an innovative integrated behavioral health program delivered in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and rooted in an infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) framework. This exploratory study describes Warm Connections and provides evaluation results from its pilot implementation. Findings suggest Warm Connections may reduce distress and increase parenting efficacy among low-income mothers and support further research of this program's feasibility.
PY - 2021
SN - 1573-2789; 0010-3853
SP - 1130
EP - 1141
EP - 
T1 - Warm Connections: Integration of Infant Mental Health Services into WIC
T2 - Community mental health journal
TI - Warm Connections: Integration of Infant Mental Health Services into WIC
U1 - Financing & Sustainability; Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 33159630
U3 - 10.1007/s10597-020-00744-y
VL - 57
VO - 1573-2789; 0010-3853
Y1 - 2021
Y2 - Aug
ER -