DWIHN/MI-AIMH - Supporting Families in Reclaiming their Peripartum Period Experience: Part 1- Birth Stories

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Description

This training will explore how birth through six professionals can support birthing people and their families to reclaim the experience of their child’s birth and how this has impacted them and their baby. There will be a particular focus on birth trauma and how to support the processing of this while holding a lens of marginalized populations and our history of medical treatment in the US.

Learning objectives coming soon!

Contributors

Lindsey Fanning, LMSW, IMH-E®

Lindsey Fanning graduated from Wayne State University with a Masters degree in Social Work in 2013, and spent the following years working in community mental health in Metro-Detroit, where she provided home based Infant Mental Health therapy to children and families, as well as preschool consultation and reflective supervision in early childhood educational settings. Lindsey has presented locally as well as at statewide and national conferences, sharing her work on a variety of topics related to Infant, toddler, and preschool mental health. After experiencing a traumatic birth with her first child in 2019, Lindsey felt pulled to expand her clinical work from mostly young children to the peripartum population, experiencing first hand how information and support can alter a birth experience. In 2019, she became co-owner of Foundations Therapy Group in Plymouth, MI, where she focuses her clinical work on empowering birthing people by offering support through the many transitions that arise in the peripartum period and beyond. Lindsey lives in Canton with her husband, 2 toddlers, 3 dogs, and is in a very committed relationship with pizza.
Hillary Lesniak, LMSW, IMH-E®

Hillary graduated from Wayne State's MSW program in 2012 and completed a post-graduate fellowship at Yale University before starting her career in Infant Mental Health at Starfish Family Services in 2013. In her time she was a full time IMH clinician, coordinator and finally a supervisor for the infant mental health/mental health consultants in head start classrooms. Over the last 7 years she has also maintained private practice working with children, parents and adults. She now runs her own practice and provides therapy mainly with peripartum women and provides reflective supervision and consultation. She is an Infant Mental Health Mentor, Rostered with CPP, and completed all trainings required through Postpartum Support International for certification. She has shared her work at Zero to Three conferences and the World Association for Infant Mental Health. Hillary loves eating food, watching reality tv and spending money.
Yemisi Odetoyinbo, LLMSW, CD

Yemisi Odetoyinbo has been an infant mental health therapist /behavioral health consultant at Starfish Family Services for the past two years. Along with therapy work she dedicates her energy to help create spaces of healing as a yoga practitioner and a full spectrum doula.
Danielle Rice, MSW, IMH-E®

Danielle idenitifies as an African American cis-gender woman, and is a Detroit native. Danielle attended the University of Michigan, where she received a Master of Social Work and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Specialist. Danielle continued her education and received a Master of Administration from Central Michigan University, specifically focusing in organizational dynamics and culture. She is currently a dual-title doctoral student in Social Work and Infant Mental Health at Wayne State University. She has practiced in community mental health settings providing both outpatient and home-based infant mental health services to infants, toddlers and their caregivers. She is involved in research and service delivery for infants and toddlers involved in the child welfare system. She currently provides reflective consultation to educators at two not for profit charter schools in Detroit. Danielle previously served as a MI-AIMH at-large board member and is the Co-Chair for MI-AIMH’s Centering Equity Committee. She continues her work through her private practice, The Healing Circle.

Agenda
Agenda.8.19.22.docx
Birth Story Processing
Birth Story Processing_Training Handouts.pdf
Powerpoint
PPT in handouts form.pdf

Thank you

Description

Contributors

Lindsey Fanning, LMSW, IMH-E®

Hillary Lesniak, LMSW, IMH-E®

Yemisi Odetoyinbo, LLMSW, CD

Danielle Rice, MSW, IMH-E®