Let's Reimagine Maternal Mental Health

SCHEDULE 

8:15 a.m. – Registration and Breakfast

9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. –  Welcome –  Quatia Osorio, CCHW, CLC, CPE, SPM 

Executive Director & Founder, Urban Perinatal Education Center

9:30 a.m.- 10:00 a.m. Opening Keynote

10:00 a.m.  – 12:00 p.m. – Action Planning Sessions

1. Engagement of Community Care (Peer Led Design) - Keesler Gomes MCHS, CPE, NCS

The session will review areas of community care such as peer recovery coaches, certified perinatal doulas, and certified community health workers, and consider the peer  support groups; and action plan design on opportunities to enhance local peer-led initiatives

2. Inclusion of Insurance as Participants, not Payers  (Blue Cross Blue Shield RI & Neighborhood Health Plan of RI) 

Establishing a care plan for payer participant innovations in the design of perinatal Mental Health; formulating redesign of maternal health, as it promotes the restructure of what is inclusive community perinatal care

3. Sustainability Beyond - Policy In Action( Kaitlyn Rabb, MPH and Elizabeth Burke Bryant, MPH)

Current behavioral health policies include maternal mental health, future policies on the horizon, and real-time policy considerations.

4.  Addressing ineffective resilience (Wilmaris Soto-Ramos, MSW, LICSW)

 Building upon compassion for the mental health providers for continuation of providers; reviews of universal acceptance of out-of-state providers, saturation of providers, lack of provider support, challenges, and formulation of what changes are necessary to promote a healthier mental health system of care. 

5. Do You See ME? Leading Genuine Transformative Change (Mardea Halley, RN) 

Patient experience perspective on addressing systemic level gaps in maternal mental health care from education, diagnosis, treatment, or lack of treatment. 

12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Lunch and Networking

1:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.  Action Planning Sessions

3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Share Outs from Sessions

Closing Remarks – Community at Large  and  Quatia Osorio, CCHW, CLC, CPE Executive Director & Founder, Urban Perinatal Education Center