CLASP's mental health work advances systems and policy change with an explicit focus on how a person's race and ethnicity affects how they interact with the health system. Without a direct understanding of how mental health and wellbeing are seen by those who are living in poverty, we…
This brief offers a variety of strategies that policymakers and advocates can use to advance racial equity in maternal mental health. It offers many effective models from communities across the country. While many of these success stories are about broad health issues, they contain lessons…
Three million Americans living in poverty are either a mother who has experienced depression or a young adult who has experienced serious psychological distress. Untreated mental health needs have significant consequences for mothers and young adults as well as their families.
Improving the identification and treatment of maternal depression among low-income women, particularly mothers of young children, would be an extraordinary public health success.
This report suggests a new framework for thinking about TANF in the context of the first year of life, a vision for what a reformed TANF might look like and concrete steps that states can begin taking right now to move their programs in this…
Maternal depression is a major public health problem that interferes with a parent’s capacity to help a child develop and stymies their efforts to escape poverty.