HOSPITALS & HEALTHCARE

Community Partner: Shades of Blue Project

The Hospitals and Healthcare Team partnered with the Shades of Blue Project, whose mission is to break cultural barriers in maternal mental health by raising awareness and ensuring action is taken to break the stigma surrounding seeking treatment by helping women before, during, and after child-birth with maternal mental health advocacy, treatment, and support. Together we created an educational playbook on Black maternal mental health, specific to COVID-19, and a postpartum depression severity assessment and care navigation tool with the goal of improving awareness of and access to mental health care for Black birthing people and new parents, in order to increase Shades of Blue Project’s efficacy in the wake of COVID-19.