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Key Topic: Maternal Mental Health

  • Mother looks pensive while holding baby.
    Resource

    How Los Angeles Community Clinics Use the Collaborative Care Model to Improve Maternal Mental Health

    This explainer provides an overview of the Los Angeles County Maternal Mental Health Access initiative’s goals, strategic components, and lessons to date.

    October 23, 2025

  • A healthcare professional consults a mother holding her baby in a medical clinic setting.
    Event

    CIN Webinar – Collaborative Care Model for Perinatal Mental Health

    This webinar will introduce the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM), an evidence-based approach to integrating behavioral health into primary care, with a focus on addressing perinatal depression. Participants will learn about the model and hear real-world insights from a Los Angeles-based…

    October 15, 2025

  • Mother holds baby and looks off into the distance, while sitting in car
    Resource

    Improving Maternal Mental Health Care

    CHCF is working with partners to develop innovative, practical solutions for delivering mental health care to California’s mothers and expectant mothers in need.

    June 27, 2024

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    Perinatal Mental Health Training Resources for Clinicians and Non-Clinicians

    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…

    December 15, 2023

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    eConsult for Psychiatrists Treating Perinatal Women with Serious Mental Illnesses

    Nearly one in five of California’s pregnant and postpartum women suffer from depression, anxiety, or other severe illness such as bipolar disorder (perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, or PMADs). A pilot project sought to increase capacity of psychiatrists in Los…

    December 09, 2019

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    Webinar — Improving Maternal Mental Health by Building Capacity of Frontline Medical Providers

    Mental health conditions among pregnant and postpartum women are the most common complications of pregnancy and childbirth and can lead to negative maternal, infant, and child outcomes and significant financial cost. And yet the vast majority of women with these…

    November 08, 2019

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    SHOUT Webinar 4: Buprenorphine and Methadone in Pregnancy

    December 20, 2017

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