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Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUGS/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation

Pregnancy and early childhood pose unique sensitivity to stressors such as economic instability, poor mental health, and social inequities all of which have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. In absence of protective buffers, prolonged exposure to excessive, early adversity can lead to poor he...

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Autores principales: Liu, Meisui, Neri Mini, Fernanda, Torres, Carlos, Kwete, Gracia M., Boudreau, Alexy Arauz, Hunter, Mary Lyons, Parra, Maria Yolanda, Lopez, William, Izen, Amy, Price, Sarah N., Perkins, Meghan E., Taveras, Elsie M.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8113397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33996717
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.633285
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author Liu, Meisui
Neri Mini, Fernanda
Torres, Carlos
Kwete, Gracia M.
Boudreau, Alexy Arauz
Hunter, Mary Lyons
Parra, Maria Yolanda
Lopez, William
Izen, Amy
Price, Sarah N.
Perkins, Meghan E.
Taveras, Elsie M.
author_facet Liu, Meisui
Neri Mini, Fernanda
Torres, Carlos
Kwete, Gracia M.
Boudreau, Alexy Arauz
Hunter, Mary Lyons
Parra, Maria Yolanda
Lopez, William
Izen, Amy
Price, Sarah N.
Perkins, Meghan E.
Taveras, Elsie M.
author_sort Liu, Meisui
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description Pregnancy and early childhood pose unique sensitivity to stressors such as economic instability, poor mental health, and social inequities all of which have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. In absence of protective buffers, prolonged exposure to excessive, early adversity can lead to poor health outcomes with significant impact lasting beyond the childhood years. Helping Us Grow Stronger (HUGS/Abrazos) is a community-based program, designed and launched at the time of the COVID-19 surge in the Spring of 2020, that combines emergency relief, patient navigation, and direct behavioral health support to foster family resilience and mitigate the negative impacts of COVID-related toxic stress on pregnant women and families with children under age 6. Through a targeted referral process, community health workers provide resource navigation for social needs, and a social worker provides behavioral health support. The use of innovative tools such as a centralized resource repository, community health workers with specialized knowledge in this age range, and a direct referral system seeks to assist in streamlining communication and ensuring delivery of quality care. We aim to serve over 300 families within the 1st year. The HUGS/Abrazos program aims to fill an important void by providing the necessary tools and interventions to support pregnant women and young families impacted by adversity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-81133972021-05-13 Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUGS/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation Liu, Meisui Neri Mini, Fernanda Torres, Carlos Kwete, Gracia M. Boudreau, Alexy Arauz Hunter, Mary Lyons Parra, Maria Yolanda Lopez, William Izen, Amy Price, Sarah N. Perkins, Meghan E. Taveras, Elsie M. Front Public Health Public Health Pregnancy and early childhood pose unique sensitivity to stressors such as economic instability, poor mental health, and social inequities all of which have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. In absence of protective buffers, prolonged exposure to excessive, early adversity can lead to poor health outcomes with significant impact lasting beyond the childhood years. Helping Us Grow Stronger (HUGS/Abrazos) is a community-based program, designed and launched at the time of the COVID-19 surge in the Spring of 2020, that combines emergency relief, patient navigation, and direct behavioral health support to foster family resilience and mitigate the negative impacts of COVID-related toxic stress on pregnant women and families with children under age 6. Through a targeted referral process, community health workers provide resource navigation for social needs, and a social worker provides behavioral health support. The use of innovative tools such as a centralized resource repository, community health workers with specialized knowledge in this age range, and a direct referral system seeks to assist in streamlining communication and ensuring delivery of quality care. We aim to serve over 300 families within the 1st year. The HUGS/Abrazos program aims to fill an important void by providing the necessary tools and interventions to support pregnant women and young families impacted by adversity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8113397/ /pubmed/33996717 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.633285 Text en Copyright © 2021 Liu, Neri Mini, Torres, Kwete, Boudreau, Hunter, Parra, Lopez, Izen, Price, Perkins and Taveras. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Liu, Meisui
Neri Mini, Fernanda
Torres, Carlos
Kwete, Gracia M.
Boudreau, Alexy Arauz
Hunter, Mary Lyons
Parra, Maria Yolanda
Lopez, William
Izen, Amy
Price, Sarah N.
Perkins, Meghan E.
Taveras, Elsie M.
Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUGS/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation
title Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUGS/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation
title_full Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUGS/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation
title_fullStr Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUGS/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation
title_full_unstemmed Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUGS/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation
title_short Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUGS/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation
title_sort fostering resilience in pregnancy and early childhood during the covid-19 pandemic: the hugs/abrazos program design and implementation
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8113397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33996717
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.633285
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