Weaver receives 2019 MIP Scholars Award

Addie Weaver, PhD, MSW, MPA, an assistant professor in the U-M School of Social Work, is the 2019 recipient of the Michigan Mental Health Integration Partnership (MIP) Scholars Award.

The MIP Scholars Award supports U-M faculty implementing and evaluating mental health services that promote integrated care and seek to improve access to evidence-based practices for lower income and Medicaid eligible populations with behavioral health care needs in Michigan. The $50,000 award was provided by the U-M Depression Center Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Collaborative Innovations Fund and is now in the process of being matched 1:1 with Michigan Medicaid funds. 

Dr. Weaver’s project titled, “Implementing Postpartum Depression Screening and Referral in Rural Women Infant and Children (WIC) Clinics” will start in fall 2019. The project aims to identify and tailor an implementation intervention to initiate postpartum depression (PPD) screening and treatment referrals in rural WIC clinics based upon survey and qualitative interview results, as well as develop a resource and referral directory for WIC staff to disseminate information for women who screen positive for PPD.