Let's Reimagine Maternal Mental Health

Schedule is subject to change.

SCHEDULE 

8:15 a.m. – Registration and Breakfast 

9:00 a.m. – Welcome – Quatia Osorio, CCHW, CLC, CPE 

Executive Director & Founder, Urban Perinatal Education Center 

9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. – Opening Keynote Virtue Sankoh, PhD 

                                    Clinical Director of Day Hospital, Women’s Behavioral Health 

9:45 a.m.- 10:15 a.m. Opening Remarks  Kaitlyn Rabb, MPH

                                    Health Policy Analyst, RI Kids Count


10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. – BMMHS23 Block 1 Sessions & Workshops 

1. Examining Complexities of Care
a. Comorbidities with Addiction, Consumer COPING, and Maternal Mental Health 
Margo Katz, MA SEN RI MCH & Arlo Narva, MSS Project Weber/RENEW 

2. Addressing Crisis for Postpartum Care 

a. Establishing an adequate care plan if you or someone you know expresses harm
Keesler Gomes, CPE & Munirat Adebimpe, APRN, Butler Hospital

 

3. Innovations in Perinatal Mental Health - Community Perinatal Care 

a. Doulas: Enhancing community infrastructure and supports
Susie Finnerty, CPE Latisha Michel, CPE Akua Carson, CPE 

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 – Block 2 Sessions & Workshops 

4. Sustainability & Systems of Care Considerations 

a. Integration of Behavioral Health
LG Ward,PhD, Nina Ayala,MD, Micheline Anderson, PhD, CNE Women's Behavioral Health & Brown University/ Alicia Rodriguez, and Lucely Rodriguez, LICSW and Lucely Rodriguez, LICSW Clear Space MH, LLC 

5. Addressing Continuity Care in Pediatrics for Postpartum Care 

a. Design for Community Access & Placed-Based Care
OluTosin Ogubele, MD, MPH Hasbro/RIDOH & Ashley Lakin, DO, MA Flora Family Health/Direct Doctors 

6. Collaborative Innovations in Insurance Addressing Perinatal Mental Health a. Payors: 

 a. What programs/services are on the horizon?
Blue Cross Blue Shield RI &  Neighborhood Health Plan RI 

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.: Lunch and Personal Story Panel 

1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. BMMHS23 Block 3 Sessions & Workshops 

1. Effective Initiation and Implementation 

a. Review and Authority utilizing Screening Tools / Anxiety Scales (Edinburgh & PHQ9/MDQ)
Begin Again Counseling & Revive Therapeutic Services  

2. Collaborative Design Imagining Safe Maternal Mental Health Care 

a. Mobile Crisis for Postpartum Care: What Could It Look Like?
Zobedia Diaz, MD, MS, MOMSPRN Clinican/Kaitlyn Rabb, MPH, RI Kids Count 

3. Patient-Centered Mental Health Supports 

a. Elevation & Promotion of Current Care
(Marian Younge, MD, & Ana Sofia Barber De Brito, CNM 

2:15-2:30 p.m.  BREAK Visit Resources/Vendors 

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Closing Remarks – RIDOH Deborah Garneau, MS, and Quatia Osorio, CCHW, CLC, CPE, Urban Perinatal Education Center



Sponsorship Levels

Our sponsorship levels range from HOPE ($1,000.00), SUPPORT ($750.00), and COMMUNITY ($250.00).  We will be providing 1 table and 2 chairs per organization at HOPE plus sponsorship promotion on social media and newsletter. SUPPORT provides sponsorship promotion and 1 shared tabling space for promotion materials, social media, and newsletter. COMMUNITY provides social media sponsorship promotion and newsletter acknowledgment.  HELPING HAND sponsorship is any level of $50-$200.00 we will acknowledge them in our follow up newsletters to attendees. If you would like to make an intentional sponsorship donation please email us at info@urbanperinatal.org


 Thank you to Q.MED CME for providing CME for our licensed providers. 

 

Please locate event at Rhode Island College, Alger Hall. There will be signs and volunteers to assist along the way. 

 Thank you to our community of committee members


Keesler Gomes Mardea Halley Tara Holman Kayla Kinsler Edouardo Latortue Nicole Nicholls Wilmaris Soto-Ramos Carolyn Belisle Jenny Bautista-Ravreby  Quatia Osorio