Project ‘Community Building through Relational Health: Perinatal Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Community Prevention/Intervention’ was one of the projects mentioned in this Michigan Medicine Headlines story: U-M Health Commits $5.4 Million to Improve Health Equity in Washtenaw County

This project will fund engagement with community members and behavioral health providers to support perinatal mental health and parent-infant/toddler relational health within Washtenaw County through widespread training in Strong Roots Perinatal Dialectical Behavior Therapy (SR Peri DBT) for pregnant and postpartum individuals. Training will take place in the format of Learning Collaboratives to support providers, and to expand service provision in the County. “I’m excited that I was also awarded a Medicaid Match grant for this project, and we have an amendment going in to expand that match budget so that we will essentially double the budget of this project, and it will allow us to expand these services to other counties, and to other departments within Michigan Medicine (e.g.. OBGYN),” says Dr. Riggs.