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HealthySteps ‘Opening Doors’

Selina Martinez’s family pictured on October 5, 2020 in Brooklyn, NY.
Selina Martinez’s family pictured on October 5, 2020 in Brooklyn, NY.

Read the incredible story of how HealthySteps addresses inequities in health care.

During the pandemic, programs connecting families with medical, mental health, and social services have become more critical. Read Opening ‘so many doors for families’: COVID-19 underscores importance of wraparound care for new moms and children, how the Martinez family is supported by HealthySteps.

There are two barriers being faced: the discrimination that comes with mental illness, the discrimination that comes from racism. Add them together and you start to see a real toll on a parents’ ability to be the kind of parents they want to be.

Rahil Briggs, PsyD

National Director, HealthySteps

 

 

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