902716 - Reflective Supervision Consultation Services

Family Health Services (FHS) The mission of the FHS Division of the ACPHD is to improve the health and well-being of the diverse families with compassionate, comprehensive, and collaborative services. The FHS division provides a range of services, including educational, preventative, diagnostic, and treatment services for pregnant people, individuals with a pregnancy loss, infants, children, youth up to age 21, and parents. FHS programs aim to ensure access to care, reduce infant and maternal mortality, and improve the health and well-being of mothers, fathers, families with young children, and children/youth with special health care needs. Programs operated in the division include, California Children's Services (CCS); Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP); Health Care Program for Children in Foster Care (HCPCFC) Developmental Disabilities Council (DDC); and the Maternal, Paternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Program (MPCAH), which consists of the Starting Out Strong Home Visiting System of Care, Perinatal and Reproductive Equity services and initiatives, and Doula Services. Maternal, Paternal, Child, Adolescent Health Unit (MPCAH) MPCAH, also known as the Starting Out Strong system of care, provides support services, prevention services, health education and information, and advocacy for Alameda County's residents who are pregnant, have experienced a pregnancy loss, and/or families with infants and young children (ages 0-5 years old). MPCAH's 13 programs work together, including community partners, to ensure that pregnant people, mothers, fathers, caregivers, and families with young children achieve optimal health and well-being through client-centered, culturally responsive, strengths-based services and supports. MPCAH programs are committed to providing program participants with access to comprehensive and high-quality health care with a focus on early intervention and prevention services throughout the county. The goal is to reduce health disparities and protect and improve the health of pregnant people, children, fathers/father-figures, and families residing in Alameda County. Maternal and infant mortality disparities drive interventions, programs, and our collective work, specifically in the Black community and other populations such as parents of medically fragile babies and first-time mothers. MPCAH providers are trained in and committed to providing trauma-informed, relationship-based, and culturally responsive and racially concordant care. Direct services include case management and care coordination, outreach and health promotion, pregnancy navigation, support groups, doula services, community baby showers, Boot Camp for New Dads, and mental health support. Reflective Supervision Reflective Supervision is a collaborative process between a supervisor and a service provider that involves regular reflection on work experiences. It's a leadership approach that helps providers develop skills and manage emotions, thereby improving service quality and staff retention. Reflective Supervision Tenets are a set of guiding principles that raise awareness of inequities and injustices by empowering individuals, agencies, and systems of care to identify and address social justice issues. The Diversity-Informed Tenets promote social justice in the infant/child/family field. In a society where issues such as race, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, immigration status, and others are often fraught with conflict, the chances are that if diversity and inclusion issues are not addressed deliberately, they will be played out covertly in ways that may replicate injurious patterns in society at large or reproduce historical injustices.