San Luis Obispo A L P H A Inc

Pregnancy and parenting support provides emotional support through our warmline and in-person appointments. We have housed the postpartum depression warmline for our community for over a decade. Our warmline is staffed by our two, bilingual spanish family doulas who are perinatal mental health certified (pmh-c). We offer our clients free psychotherapy with pmh-c clinicians through a partnership with community counseling center that is funded by first 5 san luis obispo.one of our standout accomplishments is our consistent over-delivery of performance outcomes. Pps was contracted to provide therapy services to 48 individuals, but we served 62 clients in 2024, up from 56 in 2023. Of those 62 clients, 14 were couples and 16 were monolingual spanish speakers. We provided 484.35 hours of free clinical assessment and direct psychotherapeutic services, delivered by 16 perinatal mental health clinicians three of whom are bilingual in spanish, and one is male. We trained 11 new clinicians and certified two in 2024, continuing to build our cadre of therapists to prevent waitlists and allow for early intervention.