Maternal Mental Health

Last year, Lifespan Local began work on the Southwest Denver Collaboration for Maternal, Family and Infant Mental Health planning grant, generously provided by the Caring for Colorado Foundation. The group met twice a month to bring together community expertise and academic expertise to co-design a peer-delivered care program that will support moms/caregivers and little ones (ages 0-3 years old) in ways that are meaningful and helpful, and will promote responsive, warm relationships.

We are currently in the phase of vetting potential programs for their ability to be flexible and responsive to the desires of community members.  We plan to implement one of these programs in 2021, but first it was important to celebrate all of our hard work and hear about what the experience of working together in this way meant to members of the group.