2020 Mom with support from local mothers and partner organizations, held the #ACTION 4 Moms rally in at the California state capitol in Sacramento on Monday, January 29, 2018. The event featured Joy Burkhard, 2020 Mom Executive Director; Jessica Porten mother whose story went viral on Facebook, four fathers who lost wives and/or children to depression or psychosis and Jessisca Walker, an African American mother who sat on the California Maternal Mental Health Task Force.
Jessica Porten, Sacramento mother whose story went viral on Facebook and Jessica Walker, mother on the California Maternal Mental Health task force who was featured in the California Report podcast coverage of the rally.
Rudy Coronado, father featured in the California Report podcast, Joy Burkhard Executive Director 2020 Mom and Jessica Porten.
Jessica, Jessica and fathers watch father Rudy Coronado speak.
2020 Mom has introduced a comprehensive bill package based on the recommendations from the California Task Force on the Status of Maternal Mental Health Care.
You can get more information on the task force and the white paper here.
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