Humble Rotary Gifts $4000 to Rotary Rose Group
Posted by Ernest Hauser
on Jan 27, 2016
Humble Rotary Gifts $4000 to Rotary Rose Group
The Rotary Rose Group, a Postpartum Depression & Anxiety Support Group, was gifted $4000 by Humble Rotary. The gift will be utilized to assist with the costs of providing service to existing participants and to ensure that every new local mother is aware that this valuable no-cost resources is available to them.
Humble Rotary Gifts $4000 to Rotary Rose Group
The Rotary Rose Group, a Postpartum Depression & Anxiety Support Group, was gifted $4000 by Humble Rotary. The gift will be utilized to assist with the costs of providing service to existing participants and to ensure that every new local mother is aware that this valuable no-cost resources is available to them.
The Rose Group was established in the spring of 2013 by the Smart Mommies Foundation in Kingwood to provide no-cost group counseling to local moms seeking help and support for Postpartum Depression Anxiety and Depression. The need was recognized because many of the middle-class residents are excluded from reasonably priced mental health care. The Director of the Smart Mommies Foundation was a Lactation Consultant who regularly encountered mothers with symptom of PPD-especially because breastfeeding issues are a trigger for depression and they were asking for help. The Foundation began funding 2 one hour group session per month hosted by a local Licensed Family Therapist in Atascocita. The Foundation funded $100 per session, for a total of $200 per month.
In November 2014, the Smart Mommies Foundation’s funding source, the Merry-Go-Round Children’s Resale Shop was forced to close and thus the funding for the Rose Group was discontinued. The last group session was held in December 2014.
In December 2014, The Rotary Club of Humble stepped forward to assist in sponsoring the Rose Group. As a result of this assistance their name was changed to The Rotary Rose Group. The attendance has almost doubled.
Rotary has six areas of focus, with Maternal and Child Health being one of them. This focus includes reducing the mortality rate for children under the age of five, reducing the maternal mortality rate, Improving access to essential medical services and trained health care providers for mothers and their children and supporting studies related to maternal and child health.
The Rotary Rose Group is free and local. You do not need a formal diagnosis to attend and your baby’s age does not matter. Small group meetings are held twice a month at Atascocita Counseling Associates office at 18700 West Lake Houston Pkwy, Ste 100. For more information contact Valerie Copley at 281-814-5803 or Colleen Bragg at 832-541-9169.