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Midwives Help Fill Maternity Care Gaps as California Faces OB-GYN Shortage
Patients’ access to birthing services would improve if numerous obstacles to midwives’ efforts were removed.
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Midwifery Care in California
Learn about midwifery care and California’s midwife workforce in this collection of CHCF resources.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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CIN Webinar — Improving Behavioral Health Equity for Peri- and Postpartum Latinx Patients with Depression
Watch the replay of this CIN webinar to learn how Cherokee Health Systems redesigned workflows and clinical practices to improve the identification and treatment of depression for Latinx patients.
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Pandemic Pressures Increase Incidence of Postpartum Depression
Stories That Caught Our Attention: Without treatment, postpartum depression can prevent parent-child bonding and increase the risk of maternal suicide.
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Researchers Seek Reproductive Justice for Black Women
An innovative approach to improving the birthing experience for Black people shifts reform efforts from patients to health care providers.
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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…
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New Study Uncovers the Heavy Financial Toll of Untreated Maternal Mental Health Conditions
New research calculates the hefty toll that untreated maternal mental health disorders have on women, families, and the economy.
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Listening Post
Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Patients’ health outcomes can suffer when providers don’t dedicate time to making a personal connection with them.
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Data Snapshot: Listening to Mothers in California
This wide-ranging population survey asked Californian women about their experiences with childbirth and health care, in both English and Spanish.
