By Plimun Web Design
By Plimun Web Design
The Project was founded to address mental illness among pregnant woman and girls from some of the most disadvantaged communities affected by poverty, HIV/AIDS, violence, abuse, social exclusion and refugee status. The demographic profile of our beneficiaries is 70% black, 28% coloured and 2% white.
Recognising the enormous need for public maternal mental health services, we envision universal access to quality mental health care, routinely integrated into maternity services. Partnered with the Department of Health we work with vulnerable women, civil society, international organisations and academic institutions.
We are a non-profit entity and require funding from external sources. We welcome general funding support which serves the needs of our 4 inter-related programmes. We spend a minimum of 80% of our budget directly on programmes (in 2012, 94% was spent on programmes).
We develop, evaluate and optimise maternal mental health systems through service provision at 4 strategic maternity facilities.
We prepare the maternity service environment to deliver maternal mental health services.
We integrate research into clinical care to develop and refine mental health service models and to strengthen the Project’s other 3 programmes.
Our advocacy strategies focus on raising awareness among health officials, policy makers and the public on the prevalence and impact of maternal mental distress.
The Perinatal Mental Health Project (PMHP) is an independent initiative based at the University of Cape Town as a founding partner of the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health. The Project has been operating for 10 years in close partnership with the Western Cape Provincial Department of Health. It provides a counselling service in 4 public obstetric facilities in Cape Town. Find out more here.
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