The Maternal Mental Health Research Training Center (MMH-RTC) is a federally funded research award with the Human Services and Resources Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal Health Research Collaborative (MHRC) for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). The overarching goal of this grant initiative is to build research capacity at Mercy University, a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and Minority Serving Institution (MSI) through a joint collaboration between the graduate Occupational Therapy (School of Health and Natural Sciences) and Psychology (School of Social and Behavioral Sciences) programs.