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Sacramento Observer: California’s Perinatal Mental Health Care System in Need of Reform
She’d always been told that “Black people don’t get depressed,” so in trying to cope after giving birth, Jessica Walker put on a happy face for her family. Her young son, however, saw through the facade.
“He walked into the room and said, ‘Why are you always so sad?’” Walker said.
Walker, founder of Be Mom Aware and co-chair of the Sacramento Maternal Mental Health Collaborative, joined other mothers, advocates and policymakers at the Capitol this week for “From Pain to Power: A California Storytelling and Advocacy Day” to address the critical issue of perinatal mental health and advocate for systemic change.