Calmind Foundation

I am proud to announce the publication of our PLOS Global Public Health Opinion piece!

Honored to have co-authored this with an amazing team comprising of Laura Fitzgerald- Senior Program Advisor Jhpiego, Shanon McNab- Senior Technical Advisor MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, Rebecca (Becca) Levine-Director of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Palladium, Suzanne Stalls- Director Maternal and Newborn Health MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, Pandora Hardtman-Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Jhpiego, Prabha Chandra- Head of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India, and Phiona Koyiet- Senior Technical Advisor MHPSS World Vision International.

We are united for perinatal mental health.

https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0002782

I invite you to read it.

Beyond survival: Prioritizing the unmet mental health needs of pregnant and postpartum women and their caregivers PLOS Global Public Health is a global forum for public health research that reaches across disciplines and regional boundaries to address some of the biggest health challenges and inequities facing our society today.

Today, thanks to support from a well-wisher and a friend of the organization, we donated food to 20 families through mothers’ of special needs children who had been attending our support group sessions at the waithaka Area in Dagoretti Sub-county.
We sincerely thank our friends and partners for always enabling us offer support to these vulnerable group of mothers.