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Candidate highlights maternal mental-health advocacy, cites $125 million in federal funds secured
Summary
Jamie Zalloway Belsito said she founded the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance and that she helped secure $125,000,000 in federal funding across four administrations; she framed her personal near-fatal postpartum experience as motivating her policy work.
Jamie Zalloway Belsito described founding the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance in Washington, D.C., and said her work has focused on expanding access to maternal mental-health services. "I almost lost my life from severe postpartum depression, and I could not find the help that I needed," she said, framing that experience as central to her advocacy.
Belsito said she helped secure "$125,000,000 in federal funding, under 4 administrations, in 5 congresses" for programs she said have helped more than 100,000 civilian and military families. Those totals and program counts were presented as the candidate's record in maternal-health advocacy in the transcript; the figures should be verified independently for reporting.
