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ORIGINS
2007
Four years after the birth of her daughter and her experience with severe postpartum depression, founder Kimberly Wong convenes a group of committed volunteers, including Cynthia Harding at the LA County Department of Public Health Division of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health, who identify lack of perinatal mental health awareness as the critical gap among healthcare providers. They commit to training providers across LA County to screen for and treat perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. We are founded as the Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Task Force, a project of Community Partners. Our mission is to remove barriers to the prevention, screening and treatment of prenatal and postpartum depression in Los Angeles County. Kimberly is invited to speak at a meeting of the LA Partnership for Early Childhood Investment. The Atlas Family Foundation becomes our first supporter. Founding Executive Director, Caron Post, PhD, a clinical psychologist specializing in maternal mental health, perinatal mood disorders and parent-child relationships, is hired.
2009
We co-sponsor the first perinatal mood and anxiety disorder conference in Los Angeles, attended by over 200 providers in LA County and surrounding areas.
KEY
Context & Climate
Community
Peer Support
Policy & Advocacy
Storytelling
Training
Organization
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