Los Angeles, CA (openPR) 2 March 2006

Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (JFS introduced) “New Moms Connect”, a program to help young mothers struggling with postpartum depression or its milder variant “baby blues”. JFS / New Moms Connect is a free, volunteer-based, which provides support services for mothers and their extended families in Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley.

50% or more of new mothers experience “baby blues” that can last up to three weeks. Postpartum Depression (PPD), a condition that lasts longer and is of sadness, anxiety, loneliness, and characterized the inability to cope with the new child affects 10-20% of young mothers. Early intervention, education and support to prevent key is that these conditions for the children and family life difficult, confusing and painful. JFS / New Moms Connect provides a safe place for mothers, fathers and other family members to talk about these confusing feelings and get help.

telephone contact and home visits, trained volunteers, the customers on a variety of resources including support groups, counseling and refer to when the evaluations, medical or psychiatric. In addition, volunteers can help mothers to a new system of family support, or develop an additional help at home.

JFS / New Moms Connect volunteers bring impressive, professional and life experience, her work with mothers and their families. In addition to a group of volunteers experienced paraprofessional staff includes a specialist in lactation, a doula (help post-partum), a dentist and a nurse. All volunteers have been trained in postpartum disorders and clinical intervention skills by Vivien Burt, MD, founder of the Women’s Life Center at UCLA and postnatal care and specialist women’s health.

Tamar Springer, a licensed psychotherapist, supervises all volunteer program. She is an educator with 15 years experience in all areas of marriage, family and parenting, with particular focus on the postpartum depression.

JFS / New Moms Connect is funded in part by a grant from the Jewish community. For help or more information, call the warmline at (323) 761-8800 x 1028 or visit www.jfs-newmomsconnect.org.


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Angeles Jewish Family Service of Los:

For 152 years Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (JFS) has the best quality of social services for individuals and families in need, regardless of age, race, religion or ability to pay. Programs to help families in crisis JFS important, support for older people, homeless people home, feed the hungry, assist people with disabilities and work with victims of violence. JFS is the first call for needy families. For more information visit www.jfsla.org.

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