Elevate
Elevate develops, evaluates and implements strategies to address the mental health needs of overburdened, under-resourced mothers as they pursue social and economic mobility. Collaborating with government and community partners, Elevate brings bring innovative strategies focused on disrupting poverty to scale. Together with our partners, Elevate envisions a future where mothers have the full complement of resources they need to pursue their dreams.
Maternal Mental Health: A Pathway for Improving Family Outcomes
Supporting the needs of individual caregivers is essential, but maternal mental health is also a critical pathway to improving outcomes for children and families. When communities invest in mothers' well-being, mothers can foster nurturing environments and pursue goals they have for themselves and their families. Addressing maternal mental health is both a mental health and an economic mobility intervention.
A Note About our Language: Why We Use the Term “Mother”
The Mental health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership® was established with the conviction that the unique socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological implications of gender and sex, particularly for parenting and caregiving individuals, demand mental health programming tailored to the experiences of mothers and women. This language is imperfect, though. At Elevate, we use the terms Mother or Mom to refer to the individuals who we seek to serve through the MOMS Partnership Model. They have diverse identities and roles in the lives of the children for whom they are caregivers: kin and non-kin, custodial and informal. Our definition of mothers thus includes anyone who is pregnant, birthing, in the postpartum period, or parenting children.
Contact Us
Mailing address: Elevate, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, 350 George St., 3rd Floor, New Haven, CT 06511