Ready to COPE is a free pregnancy and parenting guide delivered weekly via email or text to new and expectant parents.
The psychoeducation series supports new and expectant parents throughout the perinatal period with timely, relevant updates about what to expect and how to cope with the range of physical and emotional changes and challenges of each week of pregnancy, birth and the first 12 months of parenthood.
Ready to COPE offers insight, comfort and coping strategies, plus guidance on when and how to get help.
Fully funded by the Commonwealth Government, Ready to COPE is underpinned by the Australian Perinatal Mental Health Clinical Practice Guideline. Its information is developed to inform and empower consumers and families and support health professionals.
Ready to COPE:
Evaluation Report, University of QueenslandReady to COPE implemented with iCOPE screening can help provide timely access to information and support and extend the reach of perinatal mental health initiatives.
This integration demonstrates the clear potential to strengthen and support early intervention pathways in a way that is acceptable to parents.
To start receiving the weekly updates, subscribers complete a simple form that includes their baby's expected due date (if pregnant) or birth date (if postnatal).
Subscribers receive weekly content that corresponds to their current perinatal status.
Ready to COPE subscriberI wish I’d read this before my first child as you have normalised a lot of what went through my head after the birth.
Available Ready to COPE series include:
Special editions are available:
Created in partnership with Baby Coming, You Ready?, a West Australian research consortium at Murdoch University, this series draws on the work of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal professionals addressing barriers to trusting engagement, effective assessment, routine screening and woman-centered care. Research shows email is an effective, easy-to-access format for Aboriginal and remote communities.
COPE has created special versions of Ready to COPE for women experiencing Hyperemesis Gravidarum.
Developed in partnership Hyperemesis Australia, this series provides specialist information and connects parents to additional support.
Developed in partnership with the Australian Multiple Birth Association (AMBA), this series help partners cope with the challenges and realities of expecting or raising twins, triplets or other multiples.
As with all Ready to COPE content, these versions combine clinical evidence, lived experience and practical information to meet these specific needs.
As a healthcare provider for those in the perinatal period, you are on the front line of helping patients prepare for, and better able to cope with, the harder parts of pregnancy and early parenthood.
Recommending Ready to COPE gives them ongoing access to trustworthy, evidence-based information that supports their mental and emotional health, helps them feel less alone, and connects them to help when needed.
Help new and expectant parents be aware of and access Ready to COPE. Download and print, or request a free set of posters and display them in your business, workplace, clinical setting or community space.
You can also promote Ready to COPE through your social media or newsletter, directing patients to www.readytocope.org.au, where they can sign up to the series via email to text.
Do you have questions, feedback, ideas or suggestions about the Ready to COPE guide? You can get in touch by emailing us at [email protected].
Stay informed and feel reassured during pregnancy, birth and the first 12 months of parenthood
The launch of Ready to COPE follows new research findings showing half of women in NSW have low awareness of mental health issues during pregnancy...
Helping Australian families and referring health professionals identify specialist perinatal mental health support and services.
COPE is committed to providing women and their families high-quality information about perinatal mental health.
Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Combined DASS, assessment of pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting (PUQE Scale), and Birth Trauma Scale Self-Checks for women and their families
Helping inform and prepare expectant and new parents for the emotional changes and challenges that can come with pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.
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