The Mama Project: Maternal Mental Health Summit

96 South Grant Avenue,Columbus OH 43215

25 February, 2023

Description

The Mama Project is an initiative by Wrights Way Foundation to serve mothers in need of maternal mental health resources and during the Maternal Mental Health Summit will will reveal the new addition to our site. ​ According to the Maternal Mental Health Alliance, one in five women will experience maternal mental health conditions during pregnancy or the first year postpartum, and seventy-five percent of those women will go untreated. ​ This will be a safe space with a full day of maternal mental health resource information, speakers, mental health professionals, mama + papa discussion panels and more, presented by Wrights Way Foundation. DONATION ALERT!!! We are accepting monetary & donations for our NICU Care Packages. Please bring brand new notebooks, pens, lotions, reusable tumblers with lids, hand sanitizers, and robes to the summit. Volunteer Signup: https://dash.pointapp.org/events/41517 RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../the-mama-project-maternal... More information: www.WrightsWayFoundation.org Special Thanks to our community partners: Family Solutions North Community Consulting Center Primary One Health Humana The POEM Program Columbus Alianza 614 Ohio A Plus Kids Learning Center COLUMBUS WOMEN'S WELLNESS Watershed Distillery Taste of Kingston SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 10:30am - Doors Open 11:00am - Summit Begins 11:15am - Welcome by Trish Wright, Co-President Wright's Way Foundation 11:30am - Speaker: Kimberly Hoser, RN, BSN, RNC-NIC "Importance of Skin to Skin in the NICU" 12:30pm - Mama Circle - Mothers sharing short stories of motherhood with ​Jennifer Sanger, Kacia Grant, Deneisha Franklin and Olesya Timam. 1:00pm - Resource Panel: Mental Health Professionals with Samorra Dower, Jeanele Henderson & Alice Mills Mai​ ​2:00pm - Tiffanie Thomas “God’s Surrogate” 2:20pm - Papa Panel: How Dads Can Support Maternal Mental Health with Ronald Coleman and Kenneth Brown ​2:45pm - Ariesa D Griffin “Stand 4 Life” 3:30pm - Hatha Yoga with Erica Russell-Averette 4:00pm - Playdate Networking 5:00pm - Event Ends