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          The California Health Care Foundation is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.

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Maternal Mental Health

Our work in maternal mental health aims to close critical gaps in perinatal behavioral health services across California. We are working to integrate screening into routine care, expand provider capacity, promote culturally responsive approaches, and reform payment systems to sustain high-quality care.

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    Listening to Mothers in California

    More than 2,500 women share their attitudes and experiences of childbirth. The results reveal what is and isn’t working with maternity care in the Golden State, including key opportunities to advance birth equity and address maternal mental health.

    September 12, 2018
    Facts and Data
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    Health Affairs Explores Mental Health Link to Birth Outcomes

    November 22, 2021
    Maternal Care
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    How We Can Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mental Health

    July 12, 2024
    Maternal Care

    Opioid-Dependent Newborns Get New Treatment: Mom Instead of Morphine

    August 1, 2019
    Behavioral Health
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    Listening to Mothers in California: Maternal Mental Health

    September 1, 2018
    Maternal Care

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    Listening to Mothers in California

    More than 2,500 women share their attitudes and experiences of childbirth. The results reveal what is and isn’t working with maternity care in the Golden State, including key opportunities to advance birth equity and address maternal mental health.

    September 12, 2018
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    Maternity Workforce Insights

    This series of conversations takes a look at the critical roles of doulas, lactation professionals, mental health professionals, and midwives.

    February 13, 2025
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    Perinatal Mental Health Learning Pathways

    With support from CHCF, Maternal Mental Health NOW partnered with the UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence to produce online trainings on perinatal mental health issues for health care clinicians, mental health providers, and social service providers who serve families with low incomes.

    December 15, 2023
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    Start-Up Provides Reproductive Care for Underserved Communities

    Twentyeight Health was built to provide reproductive and sexual health care to women and birthing people of color and those with low incomes. More than half of its users are Medicaid enrollees.

    May 25, 2023
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