On November 22nd, 2023, we brought together over 70 government representatives and key stakeholders for Canada's first Perinatal Mental Health Policy Symposium.

We’re exploring ways to raise awareness of the importance of perinatal mental health, and encourage and enable mothers and birthing folks to care for themselves (in realistic, meaningful ways). To start, we've rounded up a list of evidence-based perinatal mental health promotion strategies.

This Funding Review provides a glimpse into the projects our grantees and partners are leading in Women’s Mental Health and Bipolar Disorder.

The Daymark Foundation is looking to play a coordinating and facilitative role in surfacing, formulating and communicating key policy priorities in perinatal mental health to provincial and territorial governments.

The Daymark Foundation is initiating steps towards the creation of a multi-year doula mutual aid fund to support Black, Indigenous and 2SLGBTQ+ Communities.

How can we increase access to doula care for Black, Indigenous and 2SLGBTQ+ people in a sustainable way?

We are on a learning journey to figure out how we can add value to the bipolar disorder space. Here are some of our early thoughts.

While a stepped care approach to mental health has been pursued in many jurisdictions, perinatal mental health is a unique context that warrants more specific discussion on how its concepts might be applied.

This recommendation was based on the false assumption that usual care during the pregnancy and postpartum period includes inquiry and attention to mental health and well-being.