Accessible Depression and Anxiety Peripartum Treatment (ADAPT)

About the Program

Category: Health (Best in Category)

Year: 2020

Accessible Depression and Anxiety Peripartum Treatment (ADAPT) is an innovative partnership with the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA), Behavioral Health Services and Public Health Services departments to provide services to families served by the Nurse Family Partnership and Maternal Child Health Home Visiting programs. The ADAPT model takes a whole-family approach to mental health, extending beyond the mother-infant dyad to provide accessible, in-home mental health treatment and peer support services to parents/caregivers who are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, Peripartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders. The ADAPT program is a five-year project which builds upon the existing structure of the Public Health Nursing programs by collaborating and integrating mental health providers with nurses to provide timely, convenient and holistic treatment to parents. The ADAPT program seeks to improve cross-sector competencies between physical and mental health through participation in multidisciplinary case conferences, providing case consultations, and facilitating collaborative trainings. In addition to participants experiencing a lessening of depressive symptoms following enrollment into the ADAPT program, results indicated improvements amongst ADAPT staff across multiple domains including progress towards goals, increased knowledge, less symptom distress, less impairment, and better coping.