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Peer Support and Treatment Resources
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These statewide or national resources are accessible across insurance types, including Medicaid, and many are free. Always confirm insurance coverage with providers.
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This list is a starting point, not a substitute for individualized referral support. For patients with complex needs, regional barriers, insurance limitations, language or accessibility needs, or concerns about fit, please contact PROSPER. We can help you identify appropriate options and think through next steps.
Perinatal Mental Health Crisis Resources
If your patient is in an emergency, please call 911 and recommend going to an emergency room or walk-in crisis center. Patients may also contact one of these organizations that provide free, confidential support 24/7.
Call or Text 988
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National Maternal Mental Health Hotline
Call or text:
1-833-TLC-MAMA
(1-833-852-6262)
*The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is not a “crisis line" however is answered 24/7. If you are in suicidal crisis, please call or text 988 or visit the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. If an individual is in imminent danger of harm to self or others, they should call 911.
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Perinatal Health Treatment Providers specifically serving perinatal patients
Connections Program for High-Risk Infants and Families, Women's Behavioral Health & Wellness (WBHW), CU Medicine
Specialty mental health and family support for women with high-risk pregnancies, parents of infants with medical complications or prolonged NICU stays, parents coping with perinatal or neonatal loss, and babies and young children born with medical complications. Services include therapy, parenting support, medication consultation, developmental and behavioral assessment, and therapy groups for individuals who have experienced a traumatic birth, mothers of high-risk infants, and women who have experienced later pregnancy or neonatal loss.
Healthy Expectations Perinatal Mental Health Programs, Women's Behavioral Health and Wellness (WBHW), CU Medicine
Specialty perinatal mental health care including individual, couples, and family therapy; reproductive psychiatry and medication management; and a range of therapy groups, including Bearing Hope pregnancy group and Mamas Connect postpartum group.
Healthy Expectations inlcudes PIPER (Parent Infant Program for Emotional Resilience), CU Medicine
A perinatal-specific intensive outpatient program (IOP) for individuals experiencing mood or anxiety symptoms during pregnancy or the first year postpartum. Services are available in person and via telehealth.
Parent & Family Wellness Center
Specialty perinatal mental health care for individuals, couples, and parents, including therapy, medication management, and free perinatal wellness check-ins.
Substance Use Disorder Recovery Support
Special Connections
A Health First Colorado (Medicaid) benefit providing enhanced substance use treatment and case management for pregnant and postpartum members, delivered through certified providers across the state. A directory of Special Connections providers is available through the Tough as a Mother website.
Tough as a Mother
A statewide initiative of the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration supporting mothers who use alcohol or other drugs to cope with stress or trauma. The site connects moms with care navigators, a free weekly online support group, a searchable directory of treatment and recovery services, and recovery stories from other mothers. Available in Spanish at fuertecomounamadre.org. This is a stigma-reducing resource you can share directly with clients.
Peer Support, Warmlines, and Parenting Supports
Circle of Parents
Free, parent-led peer support groups offered throughout the state through Illuminate Colorado, including general parenting groups and groups specific to particular experiences and backgrounds.
Colorado Perinatal Mental Health Project ( CO PMHP)
Free peer support and linkage to services through Colorado's chapter of Postpartum Support International. Through its Birth Squad program, CO PMHP offers prenatal classes, postpartum support groups, and community meetups, and helps connect families to resources. Babies are welcome at all groups, and childcare and interpretation are available for in-person gatherings.
Fussy Baby Network Colorado
A free statewide warmline for parents and caregivers concerned about their baby's fussiness, crying, sleeping, or feeding during the first year of life. The Fussy Baby Warmline (1-877-627-9227) offers free, confidential phone consultations statewide, with interpreter services available.
Lantern (formerly Bright by Text)
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a free national text-messaging service delivering age-targeted parenting tips, activities, developmental information, and local resources to parents and caregivers from pregnancy through the preteen years, in English and Spanish. Families can enroll by texting BRIGHT to 274448.
Nurse-Family Partnership
A free, voluntary home visiting program pairing parents with a registered nurse who provides home visits from pregnancy until the child turns two, supporting healthy pregnancy, child health and development, and family goals. Available in every Colorado county. Note the eligibility requirements: NFP serves first-time parents who meet income criteria, and enrollment must begin during pregnancy — parents who have already delivered, or who have older children, are not eligible.
Social Determinants of Health
Intimate Partner Violence
Colorado 2-1-1
Connects individuals to local community resources including housing, food, transportation, childcare, and other social supports.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Free, confidential, 24/7 support for anyone affected by relationship abuse, by phone (1-800-799-7233 / 1-800-799-SAFE), text ("START" to 88788), or online chat at thehotline.org, with interpretation available in more than 200 languages. Advocates provide safety planning, support, and connection to local resources. When sharing this resource, be mindful that phones and browsing history may be monitored by an abusive partner; the website includes a quick-exit feature and guidance on digital safety.