Martha Escudero

I am Martha Escudero a mother, Certified Mental Health Rehabilitation worker MHA, Certified Lactation Educator/Counselor UCSD, Certified Death Doula The Twilight Brigade, and a LDIRs in health graduate. DONA trained as a birth doula, and ICEA trained as Childbirth Educator. With BS in Gender, Ethnicity and Multicultural Studies from Cal Poly Pomona. Currently work as Perinatal Case Manager for Maternal and Child Health Access in the East LA area, you may reach me at marthae@mchaccess.org. I am also an active member of Maternal Mental Health NOW www.maternalmentalhealthnow.org

Articles

Moms 4 Housing activist Misty Cross surveys the fenced-off vacant Oakland home that she and other homeless mothers occupied duri

Coronavirus makes Calif.’s housing crisis that much scarier for families like mine

"It's a scary time to be unhoused," writes a caregiver and mother of two who struggled to find a home in L.A.

Poverty and Class

Housing and Homeslessness

A life of trauma keeps compounding for mother fighting addiction

Mothers who have experienced trauma and live stressful lives often make bad choices. Gabriela's story is a heartbreaking example.

Mental Health

Housing and Homeslessness

Community Safety

Amid immigration crackdown, a growing family hunkers down in state of anxiety

Guadalupe, an undocumented immigrant and mother to a newborn and a 5-year-old, rarely ventures outside her LA home for fear of ICE.

Race and Equity

Mental Health

For depressed mother whose world collapses around her, faith proves barrier to getting mental health help

Juana, an immigrant mother from Guatemala, endured a terrible series of health and family crises. Yet despite her suffering and agony, her church urged her not seek out mental health help.

Mental Health

How one Los Angeles mother overcame maternal depression and now helps others do the same

Martha Escudero draws on her own experience of severe depression and grinding poverty as she makes home visits to at-risk mothers in East Los Angeles, offering what help she can.

Women's and Maternal Health

Mental Health

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Martha Escudero

Articles

Coronavirus makes Calif.’s housing crisis that much scarier for families like mine

A life of trauma keeps compounding for mother fighting addiction

Amid immigration crackdown, a growing family hunkers down in state of anxiety

For depressed mother whose world collapses around her, faith proves barrier to getting mental health help

How one Los Angeles mother overcame maternal depression and now helps others do the same