Michelle Carter is a PhD student at the UBC School of Nursing and a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatry at St. Paul’s Hospital. She aims to strengthen perinatal mental health (PMH) services to support the complex and evolving needs of birthing people and their families. Her focus is on the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care practices. In an effort to impact system-wide changes, she is often involved in the creation of interdisciplinary guidelines, clinical tools, and evaluation frameworks.  Funded by a MSHRBC C2 award, Michelle recently partnered with a group of researchers, clinicians, and individuals with lived experience to develop an evidence-based, user-informed model of care to advance integrated PMH care delivery in BC.