2020 Mom is a national maternal mental health non-profit organization aggressively closing gaps in maternal mental health care.
Founded in 2011, we have studied the root causes and barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and we advance maternal mental health policy and practice solutions. We center the experience of mothers in all that we do.
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Maternal Mental Health Blog Posts
This edition of my twice-monthly article round-up includes a commentary about the need to more urgently address shortages of psychiatrists. I couldn't agree more, and I also think we must increase the number of psychologists, those who can do full assessments of mothers (and others) with complex symptoms and causes, so we can accurately diagnose and treat the right problem, which may or may not need an RX or MD prescribed treatment. We also need to start thinking about mental health ‘medical homes’ which provide psychological assessment, therapy, peer support, psychiatric support, and care coordination with the PCP or in our case, Ob/midwife.
CMS issues Proposed Rule to Integrate Equity and Maternal Health Quality Measures into Payment for Hospitals
On April 19, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (aka regulation) to expand on key priorities of advancing maternal health and health equity in maternal health care.
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Thank you, @MDHealthDept for recognizing May as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month!… https://t.co/dKLuED0o8r

On May 5, 2022, several organizations, including 2020 Mom, were invited to join the National Consumers League in sharing their work and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-related priorities. Here are Joy Burkhard’s remarks: