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COPE Community Education Program

This program has been designed to equip community leaders with information and insights about emotional and mental health for hopeful, expectant and new parents in their community. The Program details the range of emotional and mental health challenges commonly faced, and provides you with the skills and resources to identify and support those who may be struggling to cope. Valuable resources and pathways are provided throughout, to ensure your community feels safe and supported at this often vulnerable life-stage. Read More

iCOPE Digital Screening

iCOPE is a digital screening tool designed to ensure every mother is provided with the right support for mental health during the perinatal period. The digital platform screens for symptoms of depression and anxiety and assesses psychosocial risk factors. iCOPE ensures 100% accuracy in scoring, provides automated tailored clinician and… Read More

Best practice in perinatal care

Supporting & advising health professionals on best practice in perinatal care A key focus of COPE is to support and advise health professionals on best practice in perinatal care. This encompasses the prevention, detection, treatment and management of perinatal mental health disorders in the perinatal period. All advice on this… Read More

Hyperemesis Gravidarum and nausea and vomiting in pregnancy – What health professionals need to know

Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy (NVP) and Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) are common, but underdiagnosed, conditions in pregnancy. They affect 70-80% of women to varying extents and while they are commonly presumed to only occur in the first trimester they often extend well into pregnancy and through to delivery. Read More

eCOPE Directory Disclaimer

Information about services offered on this directory is provided by individual Health Practitioners and/or their organisations. Any party registered on the e-COPE Directory has provided COPE with a declaration that they are competent and/or professionally trained in the therapeutic services they have listed. Registration with the e-COPE Directory is self-directed… Read More

Perinatal Mental Health Fact Sheets for Health Professionals

Derived from the National Perinatal Mental Health Guideline, a series of information sheets and resources have been developed specifically for health professionals. We’ve also supplied posters you can use to promote our free Ready to COPE guide, which delivers trustworthy and high-quality information to… Read More

About The Mum Drum

The Mum Drum is a series that explores the range of challenges that many mothers (and fathers) experience on their journey to becoming a parent, and being a mum in the early years. We know that pregnancy, birth and the first years of motherhood can bring… Read More

Health professional information hubs

To enable health professionals to have quality information at their fingertips, COPE has developed specialised information hubs for the range of health professionals providing maternity, postnatal and mental health care. Each of these dedicated hubs link you directly to tailored information on the following topics: An executive summary of the… Read More

Postnatal fact sheets for women and their families

COPE is committed to providing women and their families with high-quality information about postnatal mental health, and has developed a series of information sheets and resources on postnatal mental health for women and their families. These cover postnatal anxiety, postnatal depression, postpartum psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder… Read More