MOMS Sites

In 2019, Elevate partnered with agencies and organizations in the City of Bridgeport to launch the Bridgeport MOMS Goals and Needs Assessment (GNA).

Read the Findings from Six MOMS Partnership® Goals & Needs Assessments here.

To expand local offerings available to address maternal mental health and well-being in Bridgeport, Elevate collaborated with the Greater Bridgeport Area Prevention Program (GBAPP), the Alliance for Community Empowerment (Alliance), and Southwest Community Health Centers (Southwest CHC) to establish the Bridgeport MOMS Partnership^SM.

Bridgeport MOMS brings the Mental Health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership® model, which includes the MOMS Stress Management Course, to mothers and women who are raising children, and living in the greater Bridgeport area.

Elevate completed an evaluation of eight cohorts of participants in Bridgeport MOMS, in which the MOMS Stress Management Course was delivered virtually (through live-online classes) between May 2021and April 2023.

Read the Bridgeport MOMS^SM Evaluation Report Executive Summary.

Read the full report.

In 2018, the DC Department of Human Services (DHS) introduced a new Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) policy as part of the agency’s emphasis on a two-generational approach to family and child wellbeing.

In the same year, Elevate first partnered with the DC Department of Human Services (DHS) to evaluate the impact of this policy and generate a series of recommendations.

Read the Embracing 2-Gen: Findings from the District of Columbia’s TANF Survey report here.

To help support mental health and wellbeing among DC families, Elevate and DHS then collaborated to bring the Mental health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership® model to the district. DC MOMS℠ was the first team to launch a MOMS Partnership outside of New Haven and women in the District have been able to participate in MOMS services since April 2019. DC MOMS offers the MOMS Stress Management Course to mothers/caregivers living in Wards 7 and 8.

To assess the impact of DC MOMS, Elevate designed and carried out an evaluation of the DC MOMS Pilot, conducted between February 2019 and February 2021.

Read the DC MOMS^SM Evaluation Report Executive Summary.

Read the full report.

In 2019, Elevate partnered with agencies and organizations in the Greater Louisville, KY area to launch the Kentucky MOMS Goals and Needs Assessment. The Kentucky MOMS GNA was completed specifically by justice-involved mothers/caregivers — those currently incarcerated or under community supervision, including parole or probation.

Read the Findings from Six MOMS Partnership® Goals & Needs Assessments here.

Elevate then partnered with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish the Kentucky MOMS PartnershipSM, bringing the Mental Health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership® model and MOMS Stress Management Course to justice-involved mothers/caregivers in the Louisville area.

For more information about Kentucky MOMS^SM contact hilary.hahn@yale.edu

Elevate is currently partnering with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Family Independence and the Bangor Housing Authority to establish Maine MOMS^SM, bringing the Mental Health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership® model and MOMS Stress Management Course to mothers/caregivers living in the Capehart community.

More information on Maine MOMS will be forthcoming as programming takes place and is evaluated.

In 2019, Elevate partnered with agencies and organizations in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City to complete the New York City MOMS GNA.

Read the Findings from Six MOMS Partnership® Goals & Needs Assessments here.

The New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) partnered with Elevate Policy Lab to establish the NYC DHS MOMS Partnership℠ (NYC DHS MOMS), bringing the Mental Health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership® model and MOMS Stress Management Course to Tier 2 shelters for families with children.

Elevate worked with DHS and BronxWorks, a family shelter provider in New York City, to design and carry out an evaluation of the pilot, which took place between August 2021 and November 2022.

Read the NYC DHS MOMS^SM Evaluation Report Executive Summary.

Read the full report.

The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center (CBWCHC) in New York City partnered with Elevate to translate and culturally adapt the MOMS Stress Management Course for Chinese-speaking immigrant mothers in the greater New York City area.. Together, Elevate and CBWCHC formed a Cultural Adaptation Steering Committee to guide this process, and conducted a pilot study of the culturally adapted curriculum in 2022-2023. In 2024, a second cultural adaptation of the MOMS Stress Management Course began – an adaptation for U.S.-born Chinese American mothers/caregivers who will participate in classes in English.

More information on CBW MOMS will be forthcoming as evaluations of the culturally adapted MOMS program are concluded.

In 2019 Elevate partnered with Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) to administer the Vermont MOMS Goals and Needs Assessment. Participants included mothers who were receiving benefits through Reach Up (Vermont’s TANF program), Reach Ahead, Reach First, or the Post-Secondary Education Program.

Read the Findings from Six MOMS Partnership® Goals & Needs Assessments here.

Elevate then partnered with the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) to establish the Vermont MOMS Partnership^SM through Vermont Reach Up—the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program bringing the Mental Health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership® model, which includes the MOMS Stress Management Course, to mothers/caregivers living in Burlington and surrounding counties. Partners from the Howard Center joined the Vermont MOMS Partnership and provide the MOMS Stress Management Course.

Elevate worked with Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) to design and carry out an evaluation, which took place between March 2020 and November 2022.

Read the Vermont MOMS^SM Evaluation Report Executive Summary.

Read the full report.

The Office of Planning Research and Evaluation has funded a series of studies designed to further build evidence around effective strategies for helping low- income individuals find and sustain employment. Mathematica, a research and data analytics consultancy, is leading the Next Generation of Enhanced Employment Strategies (NextGen) Project, which aims to identify and test innovative, promising employment interventions that are designed to help individuals facing complex challenges secure a pathway toward economic independence.

The MOMS Partnership® was selected as one such promising intervention and is being in Massachusetts. Elevate is partnering with Mathematica, the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance and Viability to provide training and technical assistance on the MOMS Partnership® model and MOMS Stress Management course. The study was launched in Spring 2022 and seeks to screen 1000 mothers; 500 mothers will be randomized to receive MOMS Stress Management.