Maternal mental health during COVID-19

• A Joint Statement on Early Childhood Development and COVID-19: A Call for Coordinated Action to Protect and Support ALL Young Children and Their Caregivers
  Produced by: Early Childhood Development Action Network
  Key messages on an action plan to protect and ensure essential services for the youth and their caregivers.
• UN leads call to protect most vulnerable from mental health crisis during and after COVID-19
  Produced by: UN
  This resource provides key messages on protecting the most vulnerable, including mothers’ and caregivers’ mental health during the pandemic.
• Addressing the mental health needs of vulnerable populations in the COVID-19 response in the WHO European Region
  Produced by: WHO EUROPE
  Factsheet addressing the mental health needs of vulnerable populations in the COVID-19 response in the WHO European Region.
• Perinatal Mental Health Guide During COVID-19 Outbreak
  Produced by: Women's and Newborn Health. Westmead Hospital
  This resource provides key messages on how to protect mental health during lockdown.
• Tips to manage 'pandemic pregnancy' stress
  Produced by: UT Southwestern Medical Center
  This resource provides information for mothers on how to manage stress during the pandemic.

• Policy Brief: COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health
  Produced by: UN
  This guidance presents action plans on promoting and ensuring mental health services during the covid-19 pandemic.
• Operational considerations for multisectoral mental health and psychosocial support programsduring the COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: IASC
  This guidance presents action plans on maintaining psychological support and mental health services during the covid-19 pandemic.
• Mental health and psychosocial considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance provides messages for the general public on how to cope with the covid-19 pandemic.
• Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance promotes action plans to address maternal and adolescent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic (page 27)
• Clinical management of COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance document focuses on the importance of a constant provision of mental health services and psychosocial support for COVID-19 patients. (Page 35)
• Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: Interim guidance
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance includes practical recommendations for decision makers to help keep communities and health workers safe, to sustain essential services at the community level, including mental health services, and to ensure an effective response to COVID-19. (page 21)
• Addressing the COVID-19 Crisis’s Indirect Health Impacts for Women and Girls
  Produced by: Centre for Global Development

• COVID-19: Mental health before, during and after pregnancy
  Produced by: RC Psych
  This Q&A provides information for pregnant women on protecting mental health during lockdown

• Poster: Messages for Mothers: Dear Mothers in South Africa
  Produced by: Perinatal Mental Health Project
  This poster provides tips for mothers in South Africa on how to take care of their mental health during the covid-19 pandemic.

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