 The PMHP provides mental health training to build capacity within the public health service.
Demand for training has increased significantly. Ongoing fundraising efforts hope to see the Project expand its scope to reach health personnel and community workers in the rural Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and other sub-Saharan African countries.
| Training recipients |
Description |
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Mowbray Maternity Hospital
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- Ongoing training and techinical support provided at PMHP service site for nursing staff
- Ongoing training for counsellors linked to the PMHP
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Perinatal Update
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Training for maternity and general nursing staff in the Peninsula Maternity and Neonatal Service includes staff at
- 3 hospitals
- 5 community-based MOUs linked to Mowbray Maternity Hospital
- 60 staff trained in 2008
- 60 staff trained in 2009
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| Outreach training |
Community health centre staff and community-based organisations
- Lifeline, Ikamva Labantu, mothers2mothers, Ububele
- training for rural health workers and nursing staff from the Hlabisa sub-district in Kwa-Zulu Natal province
- Training in the Pedi district, rural Eastern Cape is planned for 2010 for:
- Keiskamma Trust for HIV management
- Busfare Babies Project
- nursing staff in public health facilities
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| Pilot training programme |
The Community Mental Health Team invited the PMHP, and Prof Astrid Berg, a child psychiatrist, to develop a pilot training for mental health nursing sisters
- first six-session training course was completed in 2009
- 15 nurses trained
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| University of Cape Town |
The PMHP provides didactic and interactive training in maternal mental health to
- each rotation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology fourth-year medical students
- 100 trained in 2008
- 100 trained in 2009
- postgraduate Masters students in Maternal and Child Health
- 15 trained in 2008
- 25 trained in 2009
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