Canopie

Meet Anne Wanlund, the #HealthTransformer personalizing maternal mental health with her company Canopie. Canopie joined StartUp Health in 2021, shortly after launching. Now, a couple years in and Canopie appears to be resonating. They’ve just closed a $3.7M raise, a huge feat for a new startup led by first-time founders. 🎙️ Hear her #HealthMoonshot story ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/dry2Xntg

Warning: This post includes information and a discussion of pregnancy loss. “Nobody asked me about how I was doing. Nobody. The physical pain I was treated for after my D&C was not the pain that stuck with me–the lasting impact was on how I experienced my next pregnancy.” - Canopie mom, October 2024. We know that our healthcare system has countless gaps for new and expecting parents, but in moments of loss, those gaps widen even more. The emotional pain that lingers long after the physical pain fades is often overlooked, leaving families without the support they need. We are facing a crisis of mismanaged pain—one that urgently needs addressing. To support those experiencing loss, Canopie offers a “Pregnancy After Loss: Self-Care & Coping With Grief” provider-led and peer support class designed to help those experiencing a pregnancy after a loss learn about grief and its effects on parents, process and reflect on their emotional state, and learn how to effectively care for themselves during this time. We aim to create a space where parents can understand what the body and mind go through when we grieve, identify and acknowledge possible triggers, set boundaries, honor their feelings, and connect with others. “Too often, after a loss, the focus is more on the circumstances that led to the loss and not the tenderness of what we feel, think, fear, or need in our grief,” Kendall Bassard, LMHC, LCPC, the Canopie expert leading this class, powerfully stated. “It is important to have spaces where grief and loss take center stage and have room to be the narrative, the vulnerability, the process, and the thing that leads that grief to be met with empathy and safety.” We hope last week’s #WorldPregnancyandInfantLossRemembranceDay was a time to come together in support and remembrance with friends, family, and community. If you or someone you know needs additional support, please reach out to us at hello@canopie.health or call 988 for immediate help from the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

👀 We're looking for a part-time Senior Data Analyst who is comfortable working with large data sets and digital products to join our mission-driven team! Join us as we work to unlock maternal health!

Our Clinical Care Manager, Melissa N., recently received her Perinatal Mental Health Certification through Postpartum Support International! Read about her personal and professional journey to a #PMHC below. Congratulations, Missy!

#Mentalhealth counseling is more effective at mitigating the risk for preterm birth compared with #antidepressant treatment among pregnant women with depression, researchers reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. #mmhreading #maternalmentalhealth https://lnkd.in/eNdG6VER

While postpartum depression is the most common complication of childbirth, it is also preventable. In fact, screening for postpartum depression has been shown to have a direct correlation to lower rates of postpartum depression. A few years ago, three Florida Blue employees and first-time moms developed an innovative solution that is now being used by our Florida Blue members through a digital platform called Canopie. This technology is making a real difference by helping to reach mothers in rural or underserved areas where access to health care providers and support may be limited. Recently, I had an opportunity to talk about this tool on a national stage with Ryan Bullock and Mike Cantor, MD, JD of Aeroflow Health, and Anne Wanlund of Canopie during AHIP's 2024 Consumer Experience and Digital Health Forum. I am so proud of this collaborative effort and the impact it is having on the lives of new moms, not just during pregnancy, but throughout their postpartum journey and beyond. #AHIPDigital

We're #hiring a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner! Canopie is looking for a passionate #PMHNP with expertise in treating perinatal and postpartum patients. In this #telehealth role, you will provide comprehensive maternal mental health assessments, guide treatment plans, and collaborate with Canopie’s care team to ensure patients receive the best care possible, including recommending referrals when needed. You’ll play an essential role in delivering high-quality, patient-centered care through virtual platforms. If you're eager to join a close-knit and mission-driven team, Canopie is the place for you! Together, let's help bring joy to motherhood and parenthood by providing the mental health support missing from maternal healthcare. Apply now!

We are very excited that our CEO Anne Wanlund will have the opportunity to speak about #healthequity at "Orchestrating Opportunities in Health" next week, hosted by Symphonic Capital, alongside inspiring leaders Erin Sietstra, Ashley Edwards, and Prativa Joshi Companies that prioritize health equity face both headwinds and tailwinds, as existing incentives within healthcare bump up against the reality of poor and declining health outcomes in the United States, notably in maternal health. Funders can be a huge force for positive change when they put their expertise and resources toward the unique opportunities that exist for changing a system that perpetuates inequities. The conference is going to be incredible. We can't wait to hear from Chelsea Clinton, David Whelan, Toyin Ajayi, Veenu Aulakh, Dr. William Cherniak, Ivor Horn, MD, MPH, Adimika Arthur, Yele Aluko MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI. Sydney Paige Thomas Shruti Shah #healthequity #maternalhealth

We are thinking of the folks at Aeroflow Health as they navigate the utter devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in and around Asheville. If you would like to help local relief efforts, a link to resources is included below.

Exciting news -- we are thrilled to announce that we have launched an innovative program with the NHS to deliver neonatal mental health support to parents of infants in the NICU! 100% of NICU parents need compassionate, personalized, evidence-based mental health support. If we make them ask for it, we will miss too many. Through an NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Grant, we’ve partnered with the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Paediatrics and Child Health to connect families with compassion-based neonatal therapeutic programs in multiple languages. The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Paediatrics and Child Health is part of the NIHR and hosted by Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust. Our partners, the authors of the clinical content, Dr. Angela Marsh, Dr Anita Durso, Dr. Davy Evans, and Dr. Ruth Butterworth, stated, “Having met with the team at Canopie, we witnessed their genuine desire and passion for improving the experience of parents in the perinatal period. With personal experience of neonatal care, they were keen to meet the needs of this population. Our values and goals aligned so that we were able to produce this resource, of which we are incredibly proud” (more from them in the picture below!). Thank you to all of our partners helping to support these parents, including all of our clinical content authors listed above and Jessica McNeill! We are proud to announce this during #NICUAwarenessMonth and are proud of our partnership with such value-aligned providers. The NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) funds, enables and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people’s health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth.