2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

What it reported doing in 2024

Federal and state policy development and influence: as a think tank, we inform and influence the development of federal and state policy. Federal policy: we continued to provide direct support to the federal maternal mental health task force, which the policy center championed in 2023 through federal legislation we wrote and advanced: the triumph for new moms act. As a result of this work, the first report to congress on maternal mental health and the first national strategy were released in 2024 and 2025, respectively. In 2025, as the federal task force concluded, we convened former members to organize the field around key priorities within the national maternal mental health strategy. Key priorities we are facilitating include ob/gyn screening and measurement of screening, suicide prevention, affordable maternity care, and comprehensive maternity care centers (cmccs), including midwifery, mental health, doula care, and pediatrics. Each of these priorities includes philanthropic and federal policy solutions. We kept maternal mental health on the minds of leaders at federal agencies by meeting with them regularly, including the centers for medicaid and medicare services (cms), the centers for disease control (cdc), the health resources and services administration (hrsa), the substance abuse and mental health services administration (samhsa), and the national institutes of health (nih). In addition, we began engaging the new federal administration with an overview of how the make america healthy again agenda can support maternal mental health. We conducted 19 federal policy analyses reaching more than 15,000 readers on topics including technology, maternal suicide data, and reimbursement. We wrote four letters to share our recommendations and policy priorities (topics included paid leave, screening rate reporting, and maternal health datasets) with key federal leaders (including the mmh task force, congressional working groups, and national committee for quality assurance (ncqa) about necessary changes to the measure to report mmh screening and follow-up care. We also supported partner nonprofits' policy work that was aligned with this agenda by signing on to 31 letters. Policy events: in may, maternal mental health awareness month, we unveiled our annual state report cards during a virtual briefing where members of congress and state leaders were briefed on the measures and state grades. In september, the policy center hosted a congressional reception on maternal suicide prevention and progress made to address maternal mental health over the past 10 years. The convening attracted 75+ leaders from congress, federal agencies (including samhsa, cdc, nih, and cms), and national non-profit partner organizations in person on capitol hill. We presented the latest cdc data, had a father share his personal story about losing his wife to maternal suicide, and explored the multipronged and complex solutions to prevent maternal suicide - a leading cause of pregnancy-related maternal mortality in the u.s. State policy: the policy center is also known as the expert in state policy, which is where most healthcare legislation and regulation occurs under the u.s. Federalism framework. This included our state non-profit and government agency policy fellows training and technical assistance programs, maintaining and promoting our model legislation, tracking state maternal mental health legislation, and summarizing legislation in an annual report. We continued to run our two state policy fellows programs (for non-profits and government agencies) to share data, hear from experts about programs and policies that are working, and allow participants to learn and share in a 12-month learning community. The 2024-2025 cohort graduating class included 31 participants from the following states and territories: California, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vermont. We

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