Perigee Fund

Help us grow our network! Perigee Fund invests in systems change to ensure that during pregnancy and early childhood, more families receive healing programs, services, and resources that protect and nurture their unfolding relationships. While our deepest investments have been in Washington state, we are opening up funding opportunities for groups across the U.S. 📝Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on Perigee news and funding opportunities! 👉🏼Share this post with your networks! https://lnkd.in/gDYu487r #PerigeeFund #MMHNews #PerinatalMentalHealth

Over five years, CARE Fund will invest $50 million in a push for universal publicly supported care infrastructures. The five-year investment will aid economies, improve the well-being of kids and families, create millions of jobs, promote equity, and provide older adults and people living with disabilities with more independence. Perigee Fund partners with organizations whose work advances the fields of infant and early childhood mental health and maternal mental health, and advances the capacity for all prenatal-to-3 families to experience healthy, joyful connections with the support of more time, money, care, and connection. We are so proud to have supported the CARE Fund! #CAREFund

Perigee Fund seeks a Director of Communications to join our Leadership Team! The Director of Communications will possess a deep commitment to Perigee Fund’s mission of equitable systems change and be able to identify and implement strategic communications activities that contribute to change in the prenatal-to-age-3 mental health field. The Director of Communications will maintain and elevate Perigee Fund’s positioning, shape narrative, lead projects, provide communications support to staff and external partners, and determine messaging and communications channels. Highlights of the role include: ― Refine the early communications framework and develop the vision for the Fund’s communications strategy ― Provide communications expertise, guidance and tactical execution support to Program Team members ― Partner with the Founder to write and edit communications and support thought leadership ― Collaborate with the Leadership Team to establish and continuously improve effective communications and knowledge sharing Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/gZjMZEwq #DirectorofCommunications #Hiring

A baby’s well-being starts with the family's well-being, but families often face obstacles to finding #mentalhealth support. It may take months for them to see a mental health specialist and even longer to find a caregiver that aligns with their cultural needs or speaks their language. The Family Leadership Certificate Program at Georgetown University trains individuals as Community Mental Health Workers by equipping them with trauma-informed skills that will effectively support the mental health of families. The addition of this new job classification will expand the Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health (#IECMH) workforce. “Our goal is to diversify mental health and public health spaces and to make them more equitable,” says Arrealia Gavins, Faculty Lecturer with the Family Leadership Certificate Program. Perigee Fund is proud to have supported the planning and design of the program, which is working to bring greater access to mental health care and relationship-based support for families impacted by trauma.  Thank you to Arrealia and Dominique Charlot-Swilley, Ph.D. for taking the time to speak with us about this important program! https://lnkd.in/ghT-8Fak

Clinical trials and studies have demonstrated both short-term and sustained benefits to families after engaging in CPP: One study showed that children participating in CPP demonstrate significantly greater improvements in traumatic stress symptoms and behavior problems than comparison group children, and mothers demonstrate a significant reduction in trauma symptoms when compared with a control group. Data also showed that for children with four or more traumatic experiences, CPP significantly reduced traumatic stress symptoms to a greater degree than comparison group children. A new study shows that CPP can reduce the impact of trauma on cellular aging, which is associated with health problems such as cancer and heart disease. This study further confirms the benefits of CPP and highlights the importance of interrupting trauma in children’s earliest years. #ZT3 #childparentpsychotherapy #CPP #trauma #relationships

Are you attending the ZERO TO THREE LEARN conference this week? Would love to connect, and if you are there on Wednesday, I'll be facilitating a panel with two incredible Perigee Fund grantees, Dr. Eva Marie Shivers, and Dr. Nancy Byatt. Come hear their unique perspective on the future of Prenatal-to-5 mental health consultation!

Members from our team are heading down to Long Beach, California to attend the ZERO TO THREE LEARN Conference July 31st to August 1st! Our Program Officer Kimberly Gilsdorf is facilitating a panel on Future Possibilities in Prenatal-to-5 Mental Health Consultation with speakers (and Perigee Fund grantees) Dr. Eva Marie Shivers of the Indigo Cultural Center and Dr. Nancy Byatt with UMass Medical School. If you are in attendance we look forward to meeting and learning from one another! #zerotothreeconference #LEARNwithZTT #prenatalmentalhealth

Funding Opportunity: Deadline Reminder! Expressions of Interest are due Friday, July 26 by noon. Perigee Fund is accepting expressions of interest through Friday for our first national RFP - Building Together: Equitable Systems for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Mental Health! Building Together will make $2 million in new funding available, so that more places have more momentum to integrate maternal, infant, and early childhood mental health into family-serving systems. https://lnkd.in/gHmz-cpA #mentalhealth #perigeefund #earlymentalhealth #maternalhealth #infantmentalhealth

Perigee Program Officer, Kimberly Gilsdorf, authors a guest post for the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center's blog featuring Pierce County Early Childhood Network (PCECN) — read more below!

Perigee seeks a systems change-focused Program Officer to join its outstanding program team! Reporting to the director of programs, the program officer will work with all members of the program team and contribute to a collaborative and feedback-oriented culture. The program officer’s portfolio will consist of both inherited projects and grants, day to day management of grants cultivated by Perigee leadership team members, as well as opportunities to develop or implement new grant relationships that advance Perigee’s strategic framework. A few exciting focus areas for the program officer include: — Managing Perigee’s investments in The Nest, a groundbreaking guaranteed income pilot focused on Urban Indigenous and Pacifica families in the Puget Sound region — Managing a set of Washington Indigenous Birth Justice Network grants in their final year with a strong exit in terms of relationship and impact. — Contributing to internal teams working on new national funding opportunities focused on the growth and sustainability of equitable prenatal-to-age-3 mental health models, state and regional prenatal-to-age-3 systems collaboration, and the use of somatic healing practices. Apply Here: https://lnkd.in/gZsqy5hU