NYS-AIMH Annual Membership Meeting

Join us to learn information on federal policy and local NY initiatives that seeks to bridge gaps between maternity care and infant mental health. "The time is very urgent, we must slow down," declares Bayo Akomolafe.  The fierce need to transform maternal health outcomes coupled with interpersonal neurobiology of attachment in the infant parent dyad bring us an opportunity in 2026 for deeper coordination across disciplines in infant and early childhood mental health. 

Speaker: Jill Wodnick works at Montclair State University as the assistant director of maternal policy - funded through grants for doula work, midwifery projects, and high value maternity care projects in NJ. She has been a doula and childbirth educator for the last 24 years and a sought-after speaker. Her portfolio has included federal and state legislative support and curriculum projects with the Institute for Medicaid Innovation, American Association of Birth Centers, March of Dimes, Lamaze International, Every Mother Counts and the United States Breastfeeding Coalition.  She is a HealthConnectOne doula facilitator, focusing on early relational health topics for the doula workforce.  Outside of maternal health systems change, at the local level, Jill teaches prenatal childbirth education and is a community doula facilitator in Sussex County, NJ. She is also deeply involved in ecological stewardship --centering healthy soil and medicinal plants. She is a mom of three and can be found hiking, saving seeds, composting and digging in the dirt when not #SpeakingOfBirth.