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The University of South Florida Louis De La Parte Florida Mental Health Institute announces the Florida Medicaid Drug Therapy Management Program for Behavioral Health Florida Maternal Mental Health Symposium: Building Collaborations to Empower Women and Enhance Screening, Treatment, and Community Support. This symposium provides an opportunity for various stakeholders to come together, get to know each other, and explore new collaborations in enhancing mental health and substance use treatment and services to pregnant and postpartum women in Florida. Meeting objectives include: Convene a group of Florida stakeholders interested in enhancing screening, treatment, and community support for mental health conditions in pregnancy and the postpartum; Review the literature on maternal mental health screening and treatment; Review the literature on family planning in this population and inter-conception health; Identify barriers and gaps in programming, treatment, and services in pregnancy and the postpartum; and Develop a collaborative, actionable plan for enhancing screening, treatment, and community support for mental health conditions in pregnancy and the postpartum in Florida.