If you’re a new parent looking for mental health support, this program can help make a difference in this new stage of your life!
Coming in Spring 2025
Enjoy Your Baby is a 5-session, 10-hour course that provides support and training in skills to maintain wellness and cope with symptoms of low mood, stress and anxiety in the year after the birth of a child, and helps prevent more serious problems such as postpartum depression.
- Group-based CBT course
- Offered in five sessions (10 hours total)
- For parents and caregivers of children between 1 and 14 months of age
- Led by a certified facilitator
- Course co-designed by Dr. Chris Williams (Living Life to the Full, Bounce Back) and Dr. Michelle Haring (BC psychologist, and expert in CBT and reproductive mental health)
What you’ll learn
How to:
- Make positive changes
- Build your confidence as a parent
- Tackle your doubts
- Feel closer to your baby
- Ask for the support you need
- Find some “you time”
- Solve problems
You’ll also meet other new parents and have lots of fun!
Did you know?
- 9 – 31% of mothers experience depression in the first year after childbirth (1)
- Rates of anxiety problems in new mothers are roughly double what they are among women of a similar age who are not postpartum (1)
1. BC Reproductive Mental Health Program & Perinatal Services BC. (2014). Best Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Disorders in the Perinatal Period. http://www.perinatalservicesbc.ca/Documents/ Guidelines-Standards/Maternal/MentalHealthDisordersGuideline.pdf
Program Development
Enjoy Your Baby was developed in the UK by cognitive-behavioural therapy expert Dr. Chris Williams. Thanks to generous funds raised by the Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health, CMHA BC is updating the Enjoy Your Baby course and booklet for Canadian audiences.
The course will be piloted with community partners in the Fall of 2024, followed by a program evaluation and public launch in Spring 2025.
If you would like to learn more about hosting or participating in the pilot or public courses, please sign up to receive email notifications below.
Organizations
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New Parents
If you’re a new parent (or soon to be) who wants to be informed when an Enjoy Your Baby course opens, please sign up for the mailing list below!