Early Parenthood Support Workshop for 2SLGBTQ+ Parents

February 8, 2020, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House, 2425 Oxford St, Vancouver

Join us for an afternoon of conversation and peer support where we explore the challenges of early parenthood for 2SLGBTQ+ parents and the gaps in postpartum support services for our families.

Many people experience mental health struggles after the birth or adoption of a child (or children), including depression and/or anxiety, but most don’t talk about these challenges or know where to turn for help. If this sounds familiar now or in the past, we invite you to join us:

  • Date: February 8, 2020
  • Time: 1:00PM-3:00PM
  • Where: Kiwassa Neighbourhood House, 2425 Oxford St, Vancouver
  • Free childminding available upon request

We hope to:

  • Create a low-key space for 2SLGBTQ+ folks to come together to connect and offer support to one another
  • Share our stories of struggle with mental health challenges after birth or adoption
  • Help to improve current support services by identifying gaps before and after birth or adoption
  • Start creating a network of support for our families

Facilitators: Clare Zeschky and Emily Garner, a queer mom with lived experience of Post-Partum Depression/Anxiety (PPD/A) and a trained support group facilitator who works in postpartum support services for families. She lives with her trans partner and 3 children in Vancouver.

Guiding principles:

  • We believe that PPD and PPA are multi-dimensional problems with social factors such as discrimination, isolation, poverty, lack of childcare, and the stressful nature of parenting playing important contributing roles.
  • We use a peer support model because it is healing for parents to share experiences, in confidence, and to receive non-judgemental support and understanding from other 2SLGBTQ+ parents with similar experiences.
  • We believe that parents are powerful and can help each other to change their situations, collectively and individually.

Hosted by: Pacific Post-Partum Support Services and the Women’s Health Research Cluster, and supported by the UBC Community Engagement - Partnership Recognition Fund. 

Registration required, please RSVP to emily@postpartum.org

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

Women's Health Research Cluster

2350 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z3
E-mail rideoute@mail.ubc.ca

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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