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Dr. Helen Kim is a reproductive and perinatal psychiatrist, co-founder, and director of the Hennepin Healthcare Mother-Baby Program and Redleaf Center for Family Healing and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Following psychiatry training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Kim co-founded the Hennepin Women’s Mental Health Program, Minnesota’s first reproductive psychiatry program. She then completed a Bush Fellowship and created the Mother-Baby Program which opened in 2013 including the Mother-Baby Day Hospital, an intensive mental health program for perinatal women that was the 4th of its kind in the U.S. and the first in Minnesota. To improve access to mental health care, her team launched the HopeLine, a phone line that offers support and connection to resources for distressed pregnant and postpartum mothers, their family members and providers. In its first 6 years, the MB Program served more than 3000 families, and secured seed funding to expand into the Redleaf Center for Family Healing. Through the Mother-Baby Program and the new Redleaf Center, Dr. Kim hopes to help children thrive by supporting the emotional wellbeing and caregiving capacity of parents.