This House resolution expresses support for designating May 6, 2026, as "National Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day." It calls for raising public awareness and understanding of maternal mental health conditions, highlights the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline, and notes that maternal mental health conditions disproportionately affect high-risk and medically underserved groups, including servicemembers, veterans, and rural mothers. The resolution cites several statistics from the bill text: about 1 in 5 women (and 1 in 3 medically underserved women) experience a maternal mental health condition each year, affecting an estimated 800,000 American families; 22.5 percent of pregnancy-related deaths were attributed to a mental health condition; about 75 percent of mothers with a maternal mental health condition never receive treatment; and untreated maternal mental health conditions are estimated in the bill to cost the U.S. economy $14,200,000,000 per year. The resolution recognizes the risks of untreated conditions, acknowledges a need for more research and prevention and treatment efforts, and encourages people and governments to support the awareness day through programs and activities.
The resolution is an expression of support and encouragement. It asks federal, state, and local governments and citizens to back the awareness day and to promote screening, research, and public education. The text does not itself create new legal requirements or specify new federal funding.
The resolution text does not authorize spending or create new programs. The bill text includes an estimate that untreated maternal mental health conditions cost the U.S. economy $14,200,000,000 each year. No publicly available information in the resolution specifies new federal costs or funding related to creating the awareness day.
Supporters want a national day to increase public knowledge, encourage screening and early intervention, promote the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline, expand research on prevention and treatment, and draw attention to how maternal mental health affects mothers, infants, and high-risk communities.
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