Military Mothers Experience Maternal Mental Health Conditions Almost 3 Times More than Civilians. MMHLA Takes Steps to Solve this Issue.
A report from the Government Accountability Office in May 2022 indicated that military mothers (active duty, dependents, reservists, and retirees) experience perinatal mental health conditions at 2-3 times the rate of their civilian counterparts.
To better understand this issue, the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance (MMHLA) authored a letter to the members of the Armed Services Committees requesting additional information including:
A report on the Military Health System activities to prevent, intervene, and treat perinatal mental health conditions of members of the armed forces and their dependents, and
A study by the Comptroller General on the impact of perinatal mental health conditions of members of the armed forces and their dependents on military readiness and retention.
This critical information will help MMHLA identify additional policy opportunities to ensure our nation’s military families receive the support and healthcare they need and deserve.
See below for the 94 organizations that signed this letter alongside MMHLA. You can read the full letter here.
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
American Mental Health Counselors Association
American Psychiatric Association
Arbit Counseling
Association for Ambulatory Behavioral Healthcare
Bethesda Women's Mental Health
Brii Biosciences
Perinatal Project Inc
Emory University School of Medicine
Every Mother Counts
Feed Your Mental LLC
Forward Wellness Counseling and Consulting
Giving Tree Counseling and Coaching
Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice
Hand to Hold
Happiest Baby, Inc.
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies - The Montana Coalition
HealthyWomen
Heart and Hands Midwifery and Family Healthcare
Hope for HIE
Integrative Therapy of Greater Washington
Indiana University Health
Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation
JLM Behavioral Health
Kansas Connecting Communities
Legacy Community Health
Legal Action Center
Lifeline for Families Center and the Lifeline for Moms Program at UMass Chan Medical School
Marce Society of North America
March for Moms
March of Dimes
Massachusetts PPD Fund
Maternal Mental Health NOW
Maternal Wellness Services
Medical University of South Carolina
Mental Health America of Ohio
Military Birth Resource Network and Postpartum Coalition
Mindful Return
Mission: Motherhood
Mom2Mom Global
Moms Mental Health Initiative, Inc
MomsRising
NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Birth Equity Collaborative
NHMH - No Health Without Mental Health
North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ohana Homefront Foundation
Parent and Childhood Education (PACE)
Perinatal Support Washington
Perinatal Psychiatry Access Network of Texas
Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health
Postpartum Resource Center of New York
Postpartum Support International
Postpartum support International, Alaska Chapter
Postpartum Support International, California Chapter
Postpartum Support Virginia
Queen City Doula, LLC
Reproductive Psychiatry Trainees
Return to Zero: HOPE
RSVP Ob/GYN
Seleni Institute
Seven Starling
Shades Of Blue Project
Shades of You, Shades of Me
SilverCircle, PLC
Society for Women's Health Research
Star Legacy Foundation
The Center for Postpartum Health
The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation
The Family Place
The National Trainee Interest Group for Reproductive Psychiatry
The Ohio State University
The University of Vermont Children's Hospital
Therapy for Therapists Collective; College of William and Mary
Trending Joy Counseling and Therapy, PLLC
Tulane University School of Medicine
University of California San Francisco
UMass Chan Medical School/UMass Memorial Health
University of California San Diego
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto
University of Vermont Medical Center
University of Texas Southwestern
West Virginia University
What to Expect Project
Women's Therapy & Wellness, LLC
Women's Wellbeing Program, University of Minnesota Medical Center
