Hope for a Better World

🌷Politics is personal when your country is in crisis. Cory Booker’s historic 25 hour speech is helping to wake up disempowered Americans and remind them what they can do on a micro level to enact positive change on a macro level.

🌷Today marks the first-ever National Day of Action for Maternal Mental Health to rally Americans to contact their federal elected officials to protect the funding of maternal mental health programs.

🌷Mental health conditions are the MOST COMMON complication of pregnancy and childbirth, impacting 1 in every 5 mothers in the U.S. or 800,000 families each year. Mental health conditions are a LEADING CAUSE of maternal mortality in our country, accounting for 22% of pregnancy-related deaths.

🌷To address this crisis, The Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance has helped to establish two federally-funded programs that have proven effective in helping mothers get the support they need: The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline and The Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Program.

🌷Turn your despair into hope and make a massive impact for maternal mental health in just a few minutes. The campaign is today only. Contact your elected officials: https://lnkd.in/g-dc8rtW

🌷We need you. Moms need you. Your voice matters.

Post by Sharon Itkoff Nacache ATR-BC LCAT LPAT PMH-C