As Maternal Suicide Awareness Week and Suicide Awareness Week come to a close, we remain committed to raising awareness and taking action. Our mission continues—to advocate for improved state documentation, research, legislation, and prevention efforts to address maternal mental health.
We believe all providers that interact in the birthing community need to be able to recognize warning signs of maternal mental health. Providers need to have the skills, training, and accessible tools to utilize effective screening methods and assessment tools for maternal mental health. To provide high-quality evidence-based approaches and treatments providers need training in competency to offer immediate intervention and crisis response to maternal mental health emergencies. Long-term, providers must be a part of conversations in therapy rooms and in policy to help the United States fund and develop long-term maternal mental health resources for mothers in the United States.
Check out a few of our favorite free trainings for providers.
Improve your knowledge and skills in suicide prevention with these self-paced online courses. They are designed for clinicians and other service providers, educators, health professionals, public officials, and members of community-based coalitions who develop and implement suicide prevention programs and policies.
Colorado Maternal Mental Health Based in Colorado, the CPCQC offers a variety of perinatal quality improvement and community-based programs in focus areas ranging from maternal behavioral health to systems. This program sets the standard for state support in mental health- bravo, Colorad!
Action on Postpartum Support APP offers a range of training in postpartum psychosis. These include courses and talks for all health professionals working with people in the perinatal period.
This is the MCPAP for Moms Obstetric Provider Toolkit, created to assist front-line perinatal care providers in the prevention, identification and treatment of depression, other mental health and/or substance use concerns in pregnant and postpartum women.
The Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health is a non-profit think tank providing data and insights as well as cross-sector policy and practice solutions to prevent the suffering of mothers, babies, and families associated with untreated maternal mental health disorders.
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