Moving Beyond Depression™
Home visiting is a widely used, voluntary service for new mothers and their young children that seeks to optimize child development and maternal life course. Moving Beyond Depression™ gives mothers participating in home visiting and who also suffer from depression the treatment that they need to function optimally and support their child’s development. It makes a difference for moms so they can make a difference for their children and benefit fully from home visiting.
Moving Beyond Depression™ is available for families enrolled in Every Child Succeeds who are eligible to participate.
How depression hurts moms and their babies
Up to one-in-three mothers in home visiting programs have a major depressive episode at some point during service, reducing their ability to be effective parents, preventing them from taking advantage of home visiting, and impacting their children’s lives for years to come.
We help home visiting make a difference by addressing maternal depression
Maternal depression makes home visiting programs less effective. Moving Beyond Depression™ (MBD) provides training and support to both home visitors and mental health therapists in identifying and treating depressed mothers.
A proven way to treat maternal depression in home visiting programs
In a clinical trial, more than 70% of mothers in our program no longer met criteria for major depressive disorder following treatment.
