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Parents’ physical and mental health affects their ability to care for themselves and their children, including their ability to engage in the warm, responsive interactions that infants and toddlers need for long-term healthy development. Maternal health is one of the issues most closely linked to inequitable systems of care.

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Goal Profile: Parental Health and Emotional Wellbeing

Parents are mentally and physically healthy, with particular attention paid to the perinatal period.

Webinar Recording: Healthy Babies and Parents: How States Can Leverage Doulas to Improve Outcomes

This webinar followed our virtual 2023 National Prenatal-to-3 Research to Policy Summit. At the Summit, we explained why we added community-based doulas to our Roadmap—this webinar took a deeper dive into the issue.

State Policy Lever Checklist: Access to Perinatal Health Insurance

This State Policy Lever Checklist includes a list of policy considerations for state leaders to help maximize the effectiveness of expanding income eligibility for health insurance. It also underscores the implications of these policy choices and their collective impact on equitable access to health insurance for their state.

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Why Do We Focus on the Prenatal-to-3 Age Period?: Understanding the Importance of the Earliest Years

The most rapid period of growth for the human brain occurs in the earliest years of life. Our health and wellbeing prenatally and during the first 3 years of life affect all future learning, behavior, and health.

2025 Prenatal-to-3 Legislative Roundup

With most legislatures adjourned for the year, we recap the 2025 action on state policies to support children and families. So far this year, lawmakers throughout the country debated—and many passed—legislation that aligns with four key components of the prenatal-to-3 system of care.

State policy progress on community-based doulas in 2024

Community-based doulas are trained social service professionals who provide non-clinical emotional, physical, and informational support to expectant parents, starting during pregnancy and continuing throughout the postpartum period. Community-based doulas are one of 12 evidence-based policies

How One Funder Invests in Policy & Systems Change for Family Mental Health

This is a guest post by Kim Gilsdorf, a Program Officer for the Perigee Fund, a national philanthropy committed to prenatal-to-age-3 mental health. I work with organizations that support the mental health of families every

2024 Prenatal-to-3 Legislative Highlights

With most legislatures adjourned for the year, we recap the 2024 action on state policies to support children and families. So far this year, lawmakers throughout the country debated—and many passed—legislation that aligns with four key components of the prenatal-to-3 system of care.

June Update: Prenatal-to-3 State Legislative Trends

Though most legislative sessions have adjourned, lawmakers and advocates across the country continue to advance efforts to support children and families. A lot can happen at the tail end of a legislative session, as Colorado

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