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Organizations Creating Change
- 01In collaboration with communities, RH Impact (https://rhimpact.org/)challenges systemic inequities to achieve reproductive health equity. Through Black women-led scholarship, we apply research & evaluation to policy advocacy, capacity-building, and power-shifting strategies.
- 02The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (https://blackmamasmatter.org/)is a national network of Black women-led and Black-led, birth and reproductive justice organizations and multi-disciplinary professionals, working across the full-spectrum of maternal and reproductive health.
- 03The Black Maternal Health Caucus (https://blackmaternalhealthcaucus-underwood.house.gov/)is organized around the goals of elevating the Black maternal health crisis within Congress and advancing policy solutions to improve maternal health outcomes and end disparities.
- 04The National Black Doula Association (NBDA®) (https://www.blackdoulas.org/)is dedicated to connecting Black (BIPOC) birthing families with Black (BIPOC) Doulas across the nation. Their mission is to combat the alarming rates of Black maternal mortality and morbidity by providing comprehensive education and training through the NBDA Leadership Academy™ and our Multi-level Doula Training Program.
- 05Sista Midwife Productions (SMP) (https://www.sistamidwife.com/)is a birth advocacy training and consulting agency. They create educational events for communities, birth workers, and organizations that work with childbearing families. They provide lectures, consultations and individualized training to organizations, institutions, and governments, at the local, regional, and national level.
- 06Melanated Midwives m(https://www.melanatedmidwives.org/)ission is to diversify the midwifery profession and empower Black birth parents with resources and tools to successfully navigate their prenatal and postpartum care. They are actively engaged in addressing the maternity health care desert and Black Maternal mortality and morbidity rates on the Southside of Chicago.
- 07The Shades of Blue Project (https://www.shadesofblueproject.org/)is dedicated to breaking cultural barriers in maternal mental health by raising awareness and ensuring action is being taken to break the stigma surrounding seeking treatment in the minority community when experiencing complications after childbirth.
- 08Sésé, Birthing Freedom (https://www.sesebirthingfreedom.com/)is a Bronx, NY-based cooperative providing doula services, movement classes and educational workshops for people before, during and after childbirth.
- 09Justice for Black Girls (https://www.justiceforblackgirls.com/)is a social justice education space that serves Black girls ’ needs for protection, safety, and belonging through a holistic culture of care coupled with Black feminist curriculum, grassroots collaborations, and academic partnerships.
- 10Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE), Inc. s(https://breastfeedingrose.org/)eeks to enhance, encourage, support, promote, and protect breastfeeding throughout the USA, by working to reduce the breastfeeding disparities among African American women, and to strengthen the health of their babies and families through, mentoring, training, breastfeeding support groups, social support, outreach, education, legislation, health policies, and social marketing.
- 11The National Association to Advance Black Birth w(https://thenaabb.org/)orks to improve the care and treatment of Black women, infants, and persons to combat the effects of structural racism on Black maternal-infant health through: advocacy, research, educational programming, activism, and policy change; equipping birth workers and maternity health institutions with the practical tools and education they need to improve outcomes for Black women and persons.
- 12Mama Glow (https://mamaglow.com/)is New York’s premiere maternity lifestyle brand committed to supporting women along the childbearing continuum. They support women and families during the fertility period, during pregnancy, after birth and into new motherhood offering a full spectrum approach to holistic wellness.
- 13Black Supermamas i(https://www.blacksupermamas.com/)s a safe and transparent space created to support and uplift Black mothers as they navigate motherhood. Their purpose is to support the emotional, mental, and physical well-being of every Black Mom by providing a space where they are seen and heard.
- 14Sisters in Loss (https://sistersinloss.com/)is dedicated to replacing silence with storytelling around pregnancy and infant loss and infertility of black women. Sisters in Loss provides educational and doula services in pregnancy, birth, postpartum, bereavement, and grief support to help women step beyond anxiety and fear and into trust and peace after loss.
- 15Every Mother Counts (https://everymothercounts.org/)works to achieve quality, respectful, and equitable maternity care for all by giving grants and working with partners and thought leaders to increase awareness and mobilize communities to take action.
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