For more information about the community partnership of the Family Success Collaborative and the Maternal Depression Outreach Project, please contact postpartum@aol.com or call (631) 422-2255.  (Collaborative partners include:  United Way of Long Island's Success by Six Campaign, Mark's Family Right from the Start 0-3+ Center, National Association of Mothers' Centers, Parent-Child Home Program and the Postpartum Resource Center of New York)

For more information about the Suffolk Perinatal Coalition please visit www.scpc.net or call (631) 422-2255.

Thank you to the Suffolk Perinatal Coalition and their Perinatal Mood Disorders Task Force for presenting Perinatal Mood Disorders: Steps to Wellness as their 17 th Annual Conference at the Stonebridge Country Club in Smithtown.

With May being Perinatal Mood Disorders Awareness Month in Suffolk County , the Postpartum Resource Center of New York, Suffolk County Department of Health Services and the Suffolk County Office of Women's Services were pleased to have been conference collaborators.

Remarks were made by:

• Mary Lou Boyle, Board President, Suffolk Perinatal Coalition
• Gail Burrus, Executive Director, Suffolk Perinatal Coalition
• Humayun J. Chaudhry, DO, MS, Suffolk County Commissioner of Health Services

Program Moderator:

• Deanna Marshall, Director of Suffolk County Women's Services

Presenters included the following:

• Special Guest Speaker, Mary Jo Codey, Former First Lady of New Jersey
• Dr. Margaret Howard, Women and Infant's Day Hospital for Postpartum Depression in Providence , Rhode Island
• Mary Sidoti, Director, Children and Parents Together Program of the Family Service League
• Sonia Murdock , Co-founder & Executive Director of the Postpartum Resource Center of New York
• Ginny Fields, New York State Assemblywoman