PHA is dedicated to raising awareness about Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs), providing Perinatal Mental Health resources + specialized treatment referrals to San Diego parents, and supporting local clinical and perinatal wellness professionals.
Only 15% of those suffering from a PMAD receive treatment. To make finding help as easy as possible, trained PHA volunteers provide safe support and specialized referrals through our "warmline." The warmline takes messages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and every message is returned within 24 hours.
PHA serves as a membership organization bringing together diverse and dedicated clinical + allied perinatal professionals. Our members are listed on our directory, receive ongoing perinatal education and networking opportunities, and regularly exchange peer support, resources, and referrals through our active community listserv.
Increase Awareness
New parents regularly have their struggles dismissed by well-meaning loved ones and professionals. PHA will not rest until every person a new parent comes in contact with understands PMADs. We do this by providing our PMADs 101 training to community groups, health care providers, and local nonprofits, in addition to supplying hospitals and community clinics with our educational brochures.
Educate Providers
Even though PMADs are the number one complication of birth, MANY health care professionals remain uninformed. This educational gap results in PMADs being minimized, misdiagnosed, or overlooked by the people we count on for help. PHA strives to correct this by regularly presenting our PMADs 101 training to local providers and organizations; in addition to, offering multiple educational workshops a year relating to perinatal wellness and mental health.
Provide Educational and Local Resources
With so much information at our fingertips, finding non-bias, research-based resources has never been harder. We tackle this modern-day problem by maintaining a website packed full of educational insights on PMADs, a blog library written by our professional members, and a directory full of specialized, local clinical providers, allied perinatal professionals, and parent support groups.
PHA's operations are brought to life by our volunteer board, professional members, and dedicated volunteers. PHA is dependent on the generous support, donations, and grants it receives from San Diego individuals and businesses.
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