Training

The person most likely to notice was never taught what to look for.

A nurse, a pediatrician, a lactation consultant, a front desk coordinator, a partner. Training the people who see new parents first is the cheapest intervention in perinatal mental health and the one most often skipped.

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Training a practice’s staff to recognize what they were never taught to see.

What we teach

Two trainings, for two different rooms.

For clinicians and front-line staff

Provider education

For the people who see a new parent before anyone else does.

Recognizing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders — what they are, how they present, how they differ
Postpartum psychosis: onset, presentation, why it is missed, and what to do in the first two hours
Screening tools and what the scores actually mean
Talking to a patient about a positive screen without losing her
Medication questions in pregnancy and lactation — where to get a real answer
Documentation and handoff

For survivors who want to lead groups

Peer support facilitator training

For people who have been through it and want to run groups in their own communities.

Group structure, boundaries, and what a facilitator is not responsible for
Recognizing when a group member needs clinical care, and how to move her there
Supervision and support for the facilitators themselves

Inside the model

The Center this training comes from.

A walk through New Jersey’s Center for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders — the program everything we teach was built and tested in.

Tour of the Center for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, New Jersey.

Formats

In person or remote, sized to the room.

Training is also included in the Respond and Build engagements — this page is for organizations that want the training and nothing else.

For a practice

A single session

One sitting for the whole staff — the people with a prescription pad and the people at the front desk.

For a department

A half day

More time with the material, and room to work through the department’s own cases and questions.

For onboarding

A repeating series

Built into how new staff start, so the training does not leave when people do.

Track record

We have been training facilitators since 2019.

Peer support facilitator training is not new for Bloom. In April 2019 we ran a two-day peer-to-peer facilitator training in Scottsdale, Arizona, for survivors of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders who wanted to lead groups of their own. Postpartum Support International approved that course as fulfilling the advanced six-hour training requirement for the affiliated track toward its certification.

By the start of 2019, Bloom-trained facilitators had already opened 13 new support groups across 8 states. We still offer this training, and it is still built around the same idea: the person who has been through it, trained properly, is often the one a new mother will actually talk to.

The first support-group facilitator training, with Lisa and Shannon.

Facilitator training in Scottsdale, Arizona, April 2019.

13 New support groups

Opened by facilitators Bloom trained.

8 States

Where those groups meet.

6 hrs PSI-approved

Our facilitator course fulfills Postpartum Support International’s advanced six-hour requirement for its affiliated certification track.

Where they are

Groups started by Bloom-trained facilitators

Island of Hope — Alameda, California. A free monthly peer-support meeting for mothers with prepartum and postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD, rage, or bipolar onset. Babies in arms welcome.
Strong as a Mother — Freehold, New Jersey. A postpartum peer-to-peer support group meeting every other Monday at the Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus.

Lisa on stage

Before it gets bad.

Lisa at the Neuroscience Education Institute Global Summit, on how clinicians can help mothers early, before a treatable illness becomes a crisis.

Neuroscience Education Institute Global Summit.

On the record

Talks, training, and press.

Sep 2026 Podcast Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff Perinatal mental health (Season 18, Episode 38) A full-length conversation on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, the dedicated center Lisa founded at Monmouth Medical Center, and how Bloom now helps health systems build programs like it. Open → Interview Broadcast NJ Spotlight News Treating perinatal mental health challenges On the state of perinatal mental health care in New Jersey and what a dedicated center makes possible. Open → Video Talk Neuroscience Education Institute · Global Summit Helping mothers before it gets bad A short clip of Lisa speaking to prescribing clinicians about catching perinatal mood and anxiety disorders early, before a mother reaches crisis. Open → Nov 2024 Conference NEI Fall Congress Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Presented at the Neuroscience Education Institute’s 20th annual congress at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs — the country’s flagship psychopharmacology meeting for prescribing clinicians. Open → Ongoing Training PESI Women’s Mental Health Specialist Certificate — perinatal faculty One of thirteen faculty on PESI’s 31-hour certificate course for therapists, teaching the section on pregnancy and postpartum: baby blues through postpartum psychosis, screening tools, and how to read the results. Open →

Apr 2019 Training Bloom Foundation · Scottsdale, Arizona Peer-to-peer support group facilitator training Two-day training for survivors of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders learning to lead their own groups. Approved by Postpartum Support International as fulfilling the advanced six-hour training for the affiliated certification track. Link coming

Mar 2017 Conference National Perinatal Association Closing presenter, 38th Annual Conference — Atlanta Selected from a national pool to close the NPA’s annual conference on perinatal mental health, presenting Monmouth Medical Center’s model of care. Written up in Neonatology Today’s conference summary. Open → Mar 2017 Press Patch Monmouth Medical Center nurse selected to present at national conference Open →

Next step

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Tell us who is in the room and how long you have, and we will tell you what fits.

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