Many health insurance companies do not cover doula care, patients in need of those services must pay out of pocket. The policy seeks to address the persistent racial/ethnic disparities by […]
Impact of Community Doulas on Reducing Health Disparities in Maternal and Child Health Populations
Minnesota Prison Doula Project
Minnesota Prison Doula Project
The Minnesota Prison Doula Project (MnPDP) provides pregnancy and parenting support for incarcerated people. They provide birth support from trained doulas, as well as group-based and individual education and support. […]
Rural Maternal Health Toolkit
Rural Maternal Health Toolkit
As rural maternal health access has diminished, rural communities have been working to find innovative ways to protect the lives and health of rural mothers and babies. Supportive policies and […]
Tools for Shifting the Focus from Clinical to System Level Causes of Poor Maternal Health Outcomes
Tools for Shifting the Focus from Clinical to System Level Causes of Poor Maternal Health Outcomes
Developed by MHLIC subject matter experts, use this document to help you and your organization develop tools that can help shift from clinical causes of poor maternal health outcomes to […]
Issue Brief: Leveraging Medicaid Policy to Advance Doula Care
Issue Brief: Leveraging Medicaid Policy to Advance Doula Care
Black women are twice as likely as non-Hispanic white women to experience severe maternal morbidity, or life-threatening pregnancy-related complications, which affect 50,000 women in the United States each year. One […]
Impact of the International Board Certified Lactation Consultant: Improving maternal/infant health outcomes, Promoting equity in access to clinical lactation care
Impact of the International Board Certified Lactation Consultant: Improving maternal/infant health outcomes, Promoting equity in access to clinical lactation care
“Impact of the International Board Certified Lactation Consultant” is a 4 page brochure describing the lactation consultant profession, its importance, its efficacy, and its relevance in providing risk appropriate clinical […]
MIDWIVES: Information on Births, Workforce, and Midwifery Education
MIDWIVES: Information on Births, Workforce, and Midwifery Education
This report describes information on midwife-attended births, the midwifery workforce, and any challenges to obtaining midwifery care; information on students of midwifery education programs, any midwifery educational challenges, and available […]
Raise the Bar for Maternal Health Equity
Raise the Bar for Maternal Health Equity
Raising the Bar for Maternal Health Equity and Excellence offers a practical guide for healthcare institutions to improve maternal health outcomes. The new tools, developed by the National Partnership for Women & Families […]
Successful Engagement With People Who Have Lived Experiences
Successful Engagement With People Who Have Lived Experiences
This workbook was developed as a resource for Title V teams to engage with the people they serve. It was written by Becky Burns, MSSW, Wisconsin Division of Public Health, […]
Building on a Strong Start Alongside midwifery units expand access to birth center care
Building on a Strong Start Alongside midwifery units expand access to birth center care
The Midwifery Center is a collaboration between the ambulatory (El Rio Health) and acute care (Tucson Medical Center) organizations to provide eligible mothers seen by the midwifery service in the […]
Perinatal CHW Toolkit
Perinatal CHW Toolkit
It’s clear that improving birth outcomes, and particularly racial inequities in birth outcomes, is a complicated and dynamic challenge that may not be solved through clinical care, behavioral change, or […]
Doula Care and Maternal Health: An Evidence Review
Doula Care and Maternal Health: An Evidence Review
Doulas provide emotional, physical, and informational support before, during, and after labor and birth. This report explores the role of doulas in maternal health care, reviews the evidence on the […]
Expanding Access to Community Health workers (EACH) in the Perinatal Period
Expanding Access to Community Health workers (EACH) in the Perinatal Period
In South Carolina, the Center for Community Health Alignment’s mission to use evidence-basedmodels and meaningful community engagement strategies to address health inequities,including training Community Health Workers and providing technical assistance […]
Cultural Transformation of Maternal Health Programs and Models – Training Indigenous Lactation Counselors
Cultural Transformation of Maternal Health Programs and Models – Training Indigenous Lactation Counselors
The presenters describe the training they have developed specifically and exclusively for Indigenous lactation counselors in the U.S. After viewing this presentation, individiuals will be able to:
Spark Sessions
Spark Sessions
MHLIC’s National Maternal Health Innovation Symposium includes recorded “Spark Sessions” featuring innovative practices designed to improve maternal health. What are Spark Sessions? Spark Sessions are short on-demand videos featuring practices being […]
Building Capacity for Addressing Maternal Depression
Building Capacity for Addressing Maternal Depression
Cicatelli Associates Inc. (CAI) developed this free, comprehensive training package to increase confidence and skills needed to recognize and respond to maternal depression. The Uplifting Maternal Mental Health curriculum is […]
Virginia Invests in Doulas to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes
Virginia Invests in Doulas to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes
The United States is facing a maternal health crisis with poor maternal health outcomes. Across the country, states have adopted many strategies to address maternal mortality and morbidity. One state […]
Breastfeeding | Human Medicine: Inter-Professional Education
Breastfeeding | Human Medicine: Inter-Professional Education
This online module includes “real life” video scenarios with entertaining narratives, interactive Q&A, interviews with health care professionals, and short PowerPoint™ slide decks to provide 3 to 4 hours of […]
Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Midwifery
Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Midwifery
Research shows that there are specific care models that can make a concrete difference in improving maternity care quality and producing better outcomes, especially for birthing people of color. One […]
Innovation Thursdays – Canopie
Innovation Thursdays – Canopie
Anne Wanlund, co-founder of Canopie, discusses this innovative app that provides digital guided self-help for maternal health with a cognitive-based therapy (CBT) core structure.
Evidence Based Birth
Evidence Based Birth
Evidence Based Birth’s mission is to raise the quality of childbirth care globally, by putting accurate, evidence based research into the hands of families and communities, so they can make informed, […]
HealthConnect One
HealthConnect One
Advancing equitable, community-based, peer-to-peer support for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting. HealthConnect One is the national leader in advancing equitable, community-based, peer-to-peer support for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and early […]
Postpartum Support International
Postpartum Support International
PSI brings together families, communities, and professionals working to support families during pregnancy, pregnancy loss, and the postpartum period. Explore their Professionals Section for information and links to the most […]
Midwifery: An Evidence-Based Solution for Disrespect, Racism and Other Challenges in Maternity Care
Midwifery: An Evidence-Based Solution for Disrespect, Racism and Other Challenges in Maternity Care
Webinar discussing midwifery as an evidence-based solution and protective model to address the important challenges in women’s health care and addressing which policies have worked to promote midwifery in communities […]
Maternal Health Innovation Podcast
Maternal Health Innovation Podcast
Join us as we speak with experts about ways we can better serve women and birthing people and advance maternal health equity. From what is going well to what needs […]
American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) is a professional organization for certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and certified midwives (CMs). They set standards for midwifery education and practice through programs and projects […]
Doula Care in the United States
Doula Care in the United States
“The lack of uniformity in federal requirements for doula certification makes it difficult to assess how many doulas there are in the United States.” This report provides insight to how […]
Doulas: Supporting Models that Support Families
Doulas: Supporting Models that Support Families
Evidence shows that doula support during pregnancy and birth improves the health of both mothers and babies, yet there are many barriers to accessing doula care. In this panel presentation, […]
The Doula Medicaid Project
The Doula Medicaid Project
The National Health Law Program is currently tracking federal and state legislation relating to Medicaid coverage of doula care that has been introduced during the current legislative session. They have […]
Advancing Birth Justice: Community-based Doula Models as a Standard of Care for Ending Racial Disparities
Advancing Birth Justice: Community-based Doula Models as a Standard of Care for Ending Racial Disparities
Practical and detailed discussion of the value of doulas and community-based care models for addressing maternal health and equity.
National Doula Network: Changing lives one birth at a time
National Doula Network: Changing lives one birth at a time
The National Doula Network is a provider network of credentialed, certified doulas that are reimbursed a living wage for providing birth doula services to Medicaid families in Florida. Beyond securing […]
Building on Strong Start: Alongside Midwifery Units expand access to birth center care
Building on Strong Start: Alongside Midwifery Units expand access to birth center care
The Midwifery Center is a collaboration between the ambulatory (El Rio Health) and acute care (Tucson Medical Center) organizations to provide eligible mothers seen by the midwifery service in the […]
Community-Based Doulas and Midwives
Community-Based Doulas and Midwives
The coronavirus pandemic further emphasizes the need for a range of accessible, affordable options for pregnancy-related care and support. This report describes the role of community-based providers in addressing the […]
Incorporating Patient-Partners in Safety and Quality Improvement Programs: Training and Tools for Providers
Incorporating Patient-Partners in Safety and Quality Improvement Programs: Training and Tools for Providers
MoMMA’s Voices Coalition trains and supports women with lived experiences to actively and effectively participate as patient-partners. The Coalition does this through the Champions for Change Summit as well as […]
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Four Care Models Decisionmakers Must Implement for Healthier Moms and Babies
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Four Care Models Decisionmakers Must Implement for Healthier Moms and Babies
Research shows that specific care models make a demonstrable difference in better care, experiences, and birth outcomes. We must take steps to make these widely available. We have identified three […]
The MCH Navigator
The MCH Navigator
The website has a variety of learning resources as well as videos, modules on multiple topics – self-directed, semi-structured learning, etc.