On June 18-19, 130 social workers, therapists, home visitors, midwives, doctors, doulas, and lactation counselors gathered at Wayne State University for Postpartum Support International's Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care two-day certificate training. Through support from Red Ventures, the Detroit Perinatal Wellness Coalition was able to provide 20 scholarships to participate in this training to professionals who serve pregnant and postpartum women in the city of Detroit, which has previously had very few medical or mental health professionals specially trained in perinatal mood disorders. Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders affect at least one in seven moms and one in 10 dads and are the most common complication of childbirth. Despite this prevalence, these parents are still highly stigmatized and services for them are lacking, especially within low-income neighborhoods. Top photo (left to right): Michelle Lacy, Emily Kearns, Aimee Cisler, Birdie Gunyon Meyer, Sarah Doyle, and Pam Moffitt. Bottom photo: Sarah Doyle, Tammy Force on the behalf of the AAUP-AFT Local 6075, accepting a certificate of appreciation for the generous scholarship donation.

Members of the Wayne Together Child Welfare Collaborative attended the final meeting in Chicago of all university partnership grantees of the National Child Welfare Workforce Initiative funded through the U.S. Children's Bureau. Team members (below, left to right) Angela Olivera, LaToya Harvey, Anwar Najor-Durack, Joanne Sobeck and Takisha Lashore presented "Wayne Together Collaborative: Risk, Rewards, and Lessons of High Impact Child Welfare Education and Training Practices." 

Caitlin Brown is teaching a free Saturday morning class in Scripps Park in the Woodbridge neighborhood just west of campus from 10 to 11 a.m. every Saturday until August 25. It is a beginner's level hatha class. Starting August 29, she will be teaching yoga as an elective class at Wayne State from 7 to 7:50 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Matthei Building. It is also a beginner's level hatha class. Employee tuition credit can be applied. More information on the class can be found at classschedule.wayne.edu and under Educ: Life Fitness Activities (hLFA 1480 section 801).