Perinatal Mental Health
Our work in perinatal mental health was spearheaded by our clinical colleagues at Providence Healthcare. They noted an opportunity to collaborate with Wellstream to enhance perinatal mental healthcare to improve outcomes for parents and families across their lives.
This work has contributed to important shifts in practice and efforts to transform health and social systems to better serve families.
We developed an evidence-based, service-user-informed model of perinatal mental health care focused on improving access, coordination, and quality of perinatal mental health services in British Columbia and beyond.
PLOS ONE | 2024
Perinatal mental illness is an important public health issue, with one in five birthing persons experiencing clinically significant symptoms of anxiety and/or depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period. The purpose of this study was to develop a consensus-based model of integrated perinatal mental health care to enhance service delivery and improve parent and family outcomes.