Jane Honikman papers, 1976-2021

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Summary

Creators:
Honikman, Jane I., 1945-
Abstract:
Papers of Jane Honikman, co-founder of the Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP) and educator on the role of social support and the emotional health of postpartum families.
Extent:
6.25 Linear Feet; (1 carton, 9 document boxes, 1 flat box) and 4 Linear Feet; (191 cassette tapes, 2 Betacam tapes, 10 DVDs, 32 VHS tapes, and 5 CD-Rs)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Jane Honikman papers, Mss 389. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains materials produced or compiled by Jane Honikman through her research and advocacy work on postpartum social support and emotional health. A majority of the materials relate to Honikman's work with AAUW, PEP, the Marcé Society, and PSI.

Materials may include pamphlets and bulletins, administrative and financial documents, handwritten lectures and notes, audiovisual recordings from conferences and trainings, correspondence, educational resources, and other reference articles.

Also included are several oversized educational materials and newspaper clippings put together by Honikman for an exhibit on postpartum depression.

Biographical / historical:

Jane Honikman (1945-) was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. She graduated with a BA in Sociology from Whittier College in 1967, after which she married Terry Honikman and the couple moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1970. Shortly after their move, Jane joined the Goleta Valley Branch of The American Association of University Women (AAUW), an organization she would continue to work with throughout the next several decades of her advocacy. After giving birth, Honikman experienced firsthand the need for continued community support postpartum and created a small group with three other new mothers. They went on to found the Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP) in 1977, with a mission to support growing families in the Santa Barbara area with opportunities for education, encouragement, and social engagement in a way that is non‐judgmental, inclusive, and community‐based.

Through her work with PEP, she came to work as the Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Birth Resource Center (BRC) and was introduced the Marcé Society, an international group dedicated to promoting the study of to puerperal mental illness. In 1984, she presented on PEP's work at their Biennial General Meeting, which began another longtime collaboration in the advocacy for the destigmatization of postpartum mental health and education. Shortly after participating in the Marcé Society's conference, Jane organized her own conference, "Women's Mental Health Following Childbirth," and from this conference, she founded the Postpartum Support International (PSI). PSI's mission is to increase awareness worldwide about the emotional changes that women experience during pregnancy and postpartum.

More recently, to increase professional involvement, in 2015 Jane co-founded the Parental Action Institute (PAI) to help train and empower medical professionals and communinity advocates to confront the stigma of mental illness and the mythology surrounding new parenthood in a non-lecture style.

Throughout her career, Jane has published several articles, educational materials, and books focused on postpartum issues and how to start community support networks. Jane continues to work with many of the organizations she has helped found and promote. She served as co-Secretary for the Marcé Society from 2012-16, currently serves as the Secretary for AAUW, and as an advisor for both PEP and PSI. She continues to lecture and train internationally on the role of social support and the emotional health of families, both individually and through organizations like PSI and PAI.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Jane Honikman, 2021.
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by topic into four series:

  • Series 1: Professional organizations
  • Series 2: Outside conferences
  • Series 3: Teaching materials and resources
  • Series 4: Correspondence

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assignees.

All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assignees for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Jane Honikman papers, Mss 389. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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