{"id":74822,"date":"2013-03-27T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=74822"},"modified":"2013-03-28T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T12:34:02","slug":"nurturing-families-network-accepts-award-from-auxiliary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/03\/nurturing-families-network-accepts-award-from-auxiliary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurturing Families Network Accepts Award from Auxiliary"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nurturing<\/a>
From left: Annette Cycon and Liz Friedman from the Massachusetts nonprofit MotherWoman are providing training on perinatal depression for Nurturing Families Network staff, thanks in part to a grant from the UConn Health Center Auxiliary. Jennifer Vendetti (right) is coordinator of the Nurturing Families Network Connections program. (Aili Arisco for UConn Health Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A $1,000 donation from the University of Connecticut Health Center Auxiliary<\/a> will help the Nurturing Families Network<\/a> at the UConn Health Center carry out its mission to provide phone, group and home visitation support for first-time parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect a 2-to-5-percent reduction in funding statewide, so this award is very timely,\u201d says Jennifer Vendetti, a UConn Health Center social worker and coordinator of the Connections<\/a> program. \u201cIt will be used to advance staff training in maternal mental health, promote child development and parent-child relationships through newly displayed materials in UCHC pediatrics waiting areas, and other special projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connections is an intended gateway into the Nurturing Families Network for first-time parents. The UConn Health Center became an NFN site in 2007. Connecticut has 42 sites, including all 29 birthing hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Auxiliary was happy to be able to help this worthwhile cause and know that we have been able to help in a training program to benefit parent-child relationships,\u201d says Auxiliary Facilitator Irene Engel.<\/p>\n

The Auxiliary\u2019s gift enabled the Nurturing Families Network at the UConn Health Center to co-sponsor training on perinatal mental health provided by MotherWoman, a Massachusetts nonprofit whose mission is to support and empower mothers \u201cto create positive personal and social change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis award really opens our opportunity to participate in training like this,\u201d Vendetti says. \u201cWe really wouldn\u2019t have the power to do that without some help.\u201d<\/p>\n

The March 15 MotherWoman training session led to a larger discussion about the need to support the emotional and psychological needs of mothers during and after pregnancy. Two days earlier, a mother, while holding her 10-month-old son, jumped to her death from the eighth floor of her New York City apartment. The baby survived with minor injuries.<\/p>\n

That larger discussion spawned the Connecticut Perinatal Support Coalition, an advocacy movement to create a comprehensive safety net for new mothers. The Children\u2019s Trust Fund, the division of the state Department of Social Services that created the Nurturing Families Network, is among the founding participants.<\/p>\n

\n

Follow\u00a0the UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UConn Health Center Auxiliary has donated $1,000 to the Health Center\u2019s support program for first-time parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":74824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-74822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 04:42:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74862,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74822\/revisions\/74862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/74824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74822"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=74822"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=74822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}