If this is an emergency, if you fear that you may harm yourself, your baby or others you need to call your healthcare provider, dial 911 (emergency services) or go to the nearest hospital emergency room. Help is available. Available 24 hours a day:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
1-800-273-TALK
1-800-273-8255

Baby Safe Haven: Do Not Abandon Your Newborn

AMT Children of Hope Safe Haven Program

1-877-796-HOPE
1-877-796-4673

If you are pregnant and afraid to tell anyone or if you do not know what to do with your newborn baby, call for help or take the baby to any hospital emergency room. Your secret and the baby will be safe. The police will not be called. You will not have to answer any questions. Confidential help and support are available for you.

Postpartum Resource Center of New York
Moms on Call and Family Support Telephone Volunteers
Offering free and confidential telephone support
Call 631/422-2255

Men and Postpartum Depression
Yes, men do get postpartum depression. It’s a fact that most people – and even many health professionals – don’t know. As a result, most men with postpartum depression suffer in isolation. With PostpartumMen, these dads are no longer alone.

Contact: Dr. Will Courtenay for appointment or phone consultation
Phone: 415-346-6719
http://www.postpartummen.com

Phone consultation, from any location Support Group also offered in San Francisco Bay Area, California

Brooklyn Postpartum Depression Support Brooklyn
Brooklyn Resource Listing
Contact www.brooklynppdsupport.org

PPD Support Group
Contact Lynne Feigenbaum at 917-689-9371

Free Postpartum Depression Support Group
Every 2nd Friday of the month from 10:00 - 11:00
286 5th Avenue, 10th Floor, Suite J
Contact: Nell Gibbon, LMSW at 917-676-9254 or www.mimivillage.com

Free Postpartum Women's Support Group for moms dealing with postpartum stress, depression and/or anxiety at
Women's Wellness
200 West 57th Street
1st and 3rd Friday of each month 10:00am
Contact: Nancè Agresta at 212-627-7727

Counseling and Medication Management - Related to pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum, lactation, pregnancy loss, infertility, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, menopause, and other issues.

Location: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Dr. Margaret Altemus, Dr. Catherine Birndorf, Supervising Psychiatrists
Contact: 212/746-5928
www.pwwp.org

Manhattan (Upper East)

PPD Support Group
Contact Anne Smith at 212-289-7335 or email mumpers1@aol.com

Shari I. Lusskin, MD
Director of Reproductive Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology NYU School of Medicine Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Website: www.drsharilusskin.com

Email: shari.lusskin@med.nyu.edu

Tel: 212 779 3660
Office: 161 Madison Avenue, Suite 10NW, New York, NY 10016

Women's Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University

Location: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center Neurological Institute
710 West 168th Street 12th Floor
Psychiatry Specialty Clinics
New York, NY 10032
Outpatient: 212-305-6001
Inpatient: 212-305-2599 http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/pi/cs/women.html

Also NIMH funded study - Treating Pregnancy Depression with Interpersonal Psychotherapy
For more information call the Maternal Mental Health Program 212-543-5519

Nassau County Department of Health, Community Health Worker Program - Free and confidential - Home Visiting and Case Management Services for pregnant and parenting teens and women

For women in the Village of Hempstead and the Community of Roosevelt

Staff speaks: English and Espanol

Contact: 516-572-0934

An Angel's Embrace Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression Support Group

A Baby Care Group also available

Contact Vanessa Barisano, RN at 516-697-1682

Counseling/PPD Group at One Roof Saratoga Springs
Contact Harriet Rubenstein, LCSW at 518-857-9361 www.oneroofsaratoga.com

Circle of Caring Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression PPD Support Group (12 week program) beginning July 10th at The Holtsville Original Mommy and Me Facilitated by Wendy Isnardi and April Langella

Contact: Wendy 631/803-2107 for details and to register

Suffolk County Department of Health Services Community Health Worker Program Free and confidential - Home Visiting and Case Management Services for high risk pregnant and parenting teens and women.

For women in Amityville, Brentwood, Central Islip, Copiague and Wyandanch

Staff speaks: English, Spanish, French, Creole and Tagalog-Pilipino

Contact: Ellen Roisman at 631-854-4023

PPD Support Group at Millard Filmore Suburban Hospital
Meets 2nd Thursdays of each month from 7 to 8pm
Contact Nancy Owen at 716-568-3628 or email nowen@kaleidahealth.org