About Us

Who We Are

We are a community of researchers and practitioners working in partnership with birthing individuals and their families to enhance how we approach perinatal care and achieve better outcomes for parents-to-be and their babies. Our interdisciplinary community includes psychologists and other mental health specialists, obstetricians, neuroscientists, doulas, midwives, community leaders, and pediatricians.

What We Do

We are a research-to-practice center that leverages our decades of perinatal research, mental health expertise, and cross-sector collaborations to create, disseminate, and elevate a range of accessible resources and tools that support those in the transition to parenthood and those serving their needs. Through a multi-dimensional approach, we achieve the following:

• Amplify the profound psychological journey of becoming a parent
• Demonstrate that parenting begins before birth — the link between maternal mental health and child outcomes
• Develop a Blueprint for enhanced perinatal care
• House a digital repository of nationwide Resources for perinatal health professionals and those they serve
• Create, disseminate, and elevate tools to support the communities supporting parents-to-be
• Foster a network of leaders in the perinatal field that shares information and grows community
• Promote innovative research and services in the TtP through an annual small-grants program

We welcome your ideas and solutions. Keep an eye out for our Request for Applications announcement, arriving in the summer of 2025.

We are grateful to our partners over the years: The O’Neill Foundation, Robin Hood, Bezos Family Foundation, The Bridge Project and for support from NIH and the Brain Behavior Research Foundation.