Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education, and Learning System (ANGELS) ***

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Main Focus:

Depression services include:

Direct Resources:

Women’s mental health consultation services for obstetrical providers statewide

Little Rock:  weekly postpartum depression support group is free and open to the public

 

Mission: To ensure every woman in Arkansas at risk of having a complicated pregnancy receives the best possible prenatal care. 

This strategic partnership between the federal government, Arkansas Medicaid, Arkansan Obstetrical Providers and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences utilizes cutting edge telemedicine technology to deliver care state wide providing:

 

  1. Comprehensive specialty care to high risk pregnant patients;
    a) One component (of many) includes women’s mental health consultation services for obstetrical providers;
    b) weekly postpartum depression support group is free and open to the public (meets in Little Rock, AR)
  2. Education and training programs:
    a) the development and collaborative participation in updating evidence based guidelines addressing topics pertinent to the overlap between psychiatry and obstetrics:
    Psychiatric emergencies in pregnancy, Depression, Anxiety, Nicotine Dependence, Substance Use, Domestic Violence, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, Eating Disorders in Pregnancy, and Hyperemesis Gravidarum (severe morning sickness syndrome);
    b) Weekly telemedicine conferences with Arkansan obstetrical providers;
    c) Educational programming for obstetrical and psychiatric residents in training;
    d) Educational programming for professional groups (obstetricians, family practitioners, nursing, psychiatrists);
    e) Consultative resource for hospital programs setting up screening tools for perinatal depression
  3. Program evaluation and research;
    a) completed ANGELS DREAM: Depression Relief Education in Antenatal Medicine. A state wide educational program to raise awareness and decrease stigma surrounding the recognition and treatment of depression in pregnancy and postpartum. This project educated both the public and providers;
    b) completed a state wide educational conference for perinatal providers educating them about the co-occurring conditions often present in perinatal substance use, effective recognition and intervention.