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.

We remain consistent in providing community safe spaces where teen & young mothers can talk about their challenges and support each other through their motherhood journey.

Funded by CBM Global-Kenya we are hosting peer to peer support group sessions facilitated by Dr. Paul Mbugua Dagoretti Sub-County Mental Health Focal person in Mutuini- Dagoretti Sub-County.

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.

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.

On Tuesday 25th July, our Executive Director Pasqueline Njau represented the organization at the Stakeholders Meeting on invitation by the Ministry of Health- the Directorate of Mental Health on National Children and Adolescents Mental Health.

The key outputs of the meeting were;

1. Sensitization on key mental health indicators amongst children and adolescents.
2. Discuss on ways of improving access to mental health services among children and adolescent population.
3. Deliberate on key action plan to upscale mental health initiatives among children and adolescent population.

Today our Executive Director was a Panelist and a Moderator at the Satellite Session on “A silent Burden No More: Advancing the Global Call to Action to Prioritize Perinatal Mental Health” at the 2023 International Maternal Newborn Health Conference.

Mental health Screening of mothers ongoing at the Waithaka Health Center, Dagoretti Sub-county.

We encourage and push for mental health screening and treatment of expectant and new mothers.

Postpartum Support International Nairobi City County Sakaja Johnson

The team.
Commemorating World Maternal Mental Health Day.

Promoting maternal mental health. Encouraging treatment. Reducing stigma.

Postpartum Support International
Nairobi City County

We are on site.
Giving a maternal mental health talk with Dr. Mbugua before the screening.

Postpartum Support International

It is World Maternal Mental Health Day!

Maternal Mental Health Matters.