The Multicultural Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative (MPMHC) is an initiative at 向日葵视频 to increase research, education and service related to the mental health of birthing people of color.
Driven by a focus on community-engagement and culturally-informed research and practice, the Multicultural Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative seeks to ensure that all birthing people receive the mental health support they need and deserve.
MPMHC Leadership:
Dr. Lisa M. Edwards (CECP)
Dr. Kimberly D'Anna-Hernandez (EDPL)
Dr. Kavitha Venkateswaran (CECP)
Please check in later for upcoming MPMHC events.
is an organization designed to increase awareness among public and professional communities about the emotional changes that women experience during pregnancy and postpartum. This website has an amazing amount of resources, including a number to call if you are looking for mental support in your area.
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Funded by: American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds
Kavitha Venkateswaran, Ph.D. (Principal Investigator), Lisa M. Edwards, Ph.D., Kimberly D鈥橝nna-Hernandez, Ph.D., & Karen Robinson, Ph.D. (向日葵视频), Jennifer Schumacher, RN, BSN, CLEC (Doula Nurse, LLC), Jennifer Garrison, PT, DPT, BCB-PMD (Zablocki VA Medical Center)
The purpose of the Culturally-Informed Interdisciplinary Prevention Program for Perinatal Depression is to disseminate training of a low-cost prevention program designed to decrease adverse perinatal outcomes for people of color. This 18-month project was funded by the maternal and child equity project funds that were directed to by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) to administer, and will involve multiple Milwaukee community agencies. The initiative is led by a team of interdisciplinary professionals from Counseling Psychology, Nursing, Developmental Psychobiology, Physical Therapy, Nursing, Midwifery and Doula support services. This grant will support two main endeavors: 1) Training healthcare professionals to become proficient in implementing an augmented version of the evidence-based (Zlotnick et al., 2006), with the incorporation of interdisciplinary components from a culturally-informed lens 2) Developing a Multicultural Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative comprised of professionals dedicated to addressing the culturally-specific and systemic needs of birthing people of color in Wisconsin.
Funded by: Institute for Women鈥檚 Leadership (IWL)
Kimberly D鈥橝nna-Hernandez, Ph.D. (Principal Investigator), Lisa M. Edwards, Ph.D., Kavitha Venkateswaran, Ph.D., & Karen Robinson, Ph.D. (向日葵视频)
The 鈥淢ood, Stress and Health Care Experiences鈥� study will investigate the role of health care experiences in perinatal mental health, birth outcomes and stress biology in Latinx mothers. This project was funded by the Institute for Women鈥檚 Leadership (IWL) Interdisciplinary Grant Program and involves collaborations with various local Milwaukee service providers. It is being overseen by interdisciplinary professionals from Counseling Psychology, Developmental Psychobiology, and Nursing. This work will be the first of its kind to quantitatively measure both the psychological, biological, and clinical consequences of stress and healthcare experiences in the Latinx population. In the future, we hope to add further clinical outcome measures (preeclampsia, blood pressure), observations of patient-provider interactions and follow up of the developmental trajectory of the children.
