New Publication
Improving the Cultural Responsiveness of Mom Power
The perinatal period holds unique mental health challenges, with
implications for individual and societal health [1]. Existing social inequities,
the COVID-19 pandemic, and intensified racialized violence
against Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) have placed
disproportionate psychological burdens on this inadequately supported
population [2]. There is a critical need to mitigate prevailing racial
trauma expressed by BIPOC perinatal patients seeking healthcare
through trauma-informed, respectful, effective care. Mom Power (MP) is
a thirteen-session multi-family perinatal psychotherapy intervention
that combines mental health and parenting support for mothers facing
adversity, including trauma and psychopathology [3]. In this letter we
describe our quality improvement (QI) process designed to strengthen
MP cultural responsiveness and improve program effectiveness
