Optimal clinical support in the early days, weeks, and months after childbirth is important for the health and well-being of new parents and their baby. The 4th Trimester Project supports […]
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective Trainings
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective Trainings
BEAM offers skill based trainings that help Black communities learn healing justice informed peer support practices. BEAM works with leaders and teams in non-profit organizations, social justice movements and corporations […]
Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Community Birth Settings
Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Community Birth Settings
Care in birth center and planned home birth settings that is led by Black, Indigenous, People of Color is a crucial approach for meeting the needs of communities affected by […]
A Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement
A Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement
This toolkit is designed to help those who provide, pay for, or support primary care translate their commitment to racial health equity into reality. Regardless of where you sit in […]
Local Wellness Funds: Advancing the Practice
Local Wellness Funds: Advancing the Practice
Local wellness funds are a dedicated and sustainable pool of locally controlled funds created to support community well-being by improving health outcomes and reducing health inequities. These funds could be […]
Listening to and Justly Partnering with Community-Led Perinatal Health Solutions
Listening to and Justly Partnering with Community-Led Perinatal Health Solutions
State Title V/Maternal and Child Health (MCH) programs across the United States are eager to implement solutions created with communities to urgently close racial disparities in maternal health outcomes. There […]
Intersectionality Policymaking Toolkit
Intersectionality Policymaking Toolkit
Grounded in core tenets of intersectionality, the Intersectionality Policymaking Toolkit (IPT) was developed to help policymakers, practitioners, and other stakeholders with their health equity work in the area of maternal […]
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 […]
Top Equity Resources for Pursuing Change in 2021
Top Equity Resources for Pursuing Change in 2021
A collection of NICHQ articles and webinars that the community found most valuable in their equity journeys.
Promising Partnerships to Address Maternal Mortality
Promising Partnerships to Address Maternal Mortality
Successfully addressing maternal health mortality requires collaboration among local, state, and federal partners. This webinar will highlight successful partnerships to support women’s health needs in HRSA Region 4 (Alabama, Florida, […]
Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
To build a healthier America for all, we must confront the systems and policies that have resulted in the generational injustice that has given rise to health inequities. The CDC […]
Bright Spots: Highlighting Sucessful State Policies to Improve Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
Bright Spots: Highlighting Sucessful State Policies to Improve Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
As state advocates prepare for the 2022 legislative sessions, this paper highlights a series of examples of state-level policies that prioritize the health of families by investing in intergenerational approaches. […]
Providers of Color: Online Directory
Providers of Color: Online Directory
Postpartum Support International maintains an online directory of providers and providers of color with special interest in treating and serving families and women experiencing perinatal mental health issues.
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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 […]
Reversing the US Maternal Mortality Crisis
Reversing the US Maternal Mortality Crisis
The Aspen Health Strategy Group met in October 2020 to take on hard questions related to the maternal mortality crisis and to develop a portfolio of five recommendations to address […]
Mom2Mom Global/Breastfeeding in Combat Boots
Mom2Mom Global/Breastfeeding in Combat Boots
Mom2Mom Global/Breastfeeding in Combat Boots is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to breastfeeding peer support, education, and advocacy for military families.
Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda
Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda
Reproductive Justice sheds light on the multiple combined forms of oppression that contribute to the reproductive oppression of women of color. This Agenda presents proactive policy solutions grounded in a […]
Birth Center Equity
Birth Center Equity
Birth Center Equity works with and for BIPOC community birth center leaders to collectively access full spectrum capital at scale, to nurture beliefs, practices, and models of abundance among community […]
Confronting Health Misinformation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment
Confronting Health Misinformation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment
Excerpt During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have been exposed to a great deal of information: news, public health guidance, fact sheets, infographics, research, opinions, rumors, myths, falsehoods, and more. The […]
Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) Program: Highlights and Lessons Learned from the Planning Year (2019 – 2020)
Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) Program: Highlights and Lessons Learned from the Planning Year (2019 – 2020)
In this webinar, the evaluation team, Mission Analytics Group, Inc. and Insight Policy Research, will present findings from the first evaluation report on the RMOMS program. FORHP funded three awardees […]
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, […]
Beyond Pregnancy
Beyond Pregnancy
This is a campaign from Preeclampsia.org which focuses not just on repeating that preeclampsia survivors have risks beyond pregnancy, but recognizing its emotional impact and educating and empowering the community […]
AMCHP’s Implementation Toolkit for National Performance Measure 2
AMCHP’s Implementation Toolkit for National Performance Measure 2
This toolkit contains resources, tools, and examples of strategies Title V programs and their partners can use to address NPM 2. Title V can play a unique role in advancing […]
Addressing Mental Health in BIPOC Communities: Key Cultural Considerations for MCH
Addressing Mental Health in BIPOC Communities: Key Cultural Considerations for MCH
Objectives: Increase understanding of the cultural context for mental health programming and service delivery in underserved communities; and Identify one strategy for addressing mental health in underserved communities Supplemental Resources: […]
Reviewing Policies for Equity Impact: A Tool to Support Equitable Maternal Health Outcomes
Reviewing Policies for Equity Impact: A Tool to Support Equitable Maternal Health Outcomes
Implementing targeted policies is a powerful strategy for eliminating racial inequities in maternal health outcomes. In this webinar recorded on May 14, 2021, Dr. Cynthia Osborne, Director of the Prenatal-to-3 […]
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Maternal Health Care
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Maternal Health Care
This free, 2-hour e-learning program is designed for providers and students seeking knowledge and skills related to cultural competency, cultural humility, person-centered care, and combating implicit bias across the continuum […]
Promoting Better Maternal Health Outcomes by Closing the Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Gap
Promoting Better Maternal Health Outcomes by Closing the Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Gap
The Century Foundation examined the impact of Medicaid coverage loss at 60 days postpartum by conducting qualitative analyses of public policy efforts in Illinois, New Jersey and South Carolina.
Advancing Racial Equity in Maternal Mental Health Policy
Advancing Racial Equity in Maternal Mental Health Policy
This brief offers a variety of strategies that policymakers and advocates can use to advance racial equity in maternal mental health. It offers effective models from communities across the country […]
Eliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality A Comprehensive Policy Blueprint
Eliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality A Comprehensive Policy Blueprint
This report provides a comprehensive policy framework to eliminate racial disparities in maternal and infant mortality. Too often, policy conversations about maternal and infant health take place separately despite the […]
Review to Action – Maternal Mortality Review Map and State Profiles
Review to Action – Maternal Mortality Review Map and State Profiles
Maternal mortality review committees (MMRCs) identify, review, and analyze maternal deaths, and disseminate and act on findings. Not every state in the U.S. has a MMRC, but every day momentum […]
Mind the Gap: A Strategic Roadmap to Address America’s Silent Health Crisis: Untreated and Unaddressed Perinatal Mental Health Disorders
Mind the Gap: A Strategic Roadmap to Address America’s Silent Health Crisis: Untreated and Unaddressed Perinatal Mental Health Disorders
Mind the Gap is a Collective Impact Initiative led by Postpartum Support International (PSI), in partnership with a broad-based stakeholder coalition comprised of leading experts from national professional and advocacy […]
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 […]
Black Birthing Bill of Rights
Black Birthing Bill of Rights
The Black Birthing Bill of Rights is a resource for every black person that engages in maternity care. Created by the National Association to Advance Black Birth (NAABB) want each […]
Equity in the Center
Equity in the Center
Equity in the Center (EiC) works to shift mindsets, practices and systems in the social sector to center race equity and build a Race Equity Culture.
Medicaid Disaster Relief for the COVID-19 National Emergency State Plan Amendment Instructions
Medicaid Disaster Relief for the COVID-19 National Emergency State Plan Amendment Instructions
States (including the District of Columbia and territories) can request approval of specific changes related to the national emergency declared due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Click ‘View Now’ for the […]
State Medicaid & CHIP Telehealth Toolkit: Policy Considerations for States Expanding Use of Telehealth
State Medicaid & CHIP Telehealth Toolkit: Policy Considerations for States Expanding Use of Telehealth
Although telehealth services have been available in many states for decades, the recent public health emergency (PHE) resulting from COVID-19 has accelerated the interest in service delivery through telehealth. The […]
View Each State’s Efforts to Extend Medicaid Coverage to Postpartum Women
View Each State’s Efforts to Extend Medicaid Coverage to Postpartum Women
Extending Medicaid coverage to postpartum women beyond 60 days is emerging as a key state strategy to address the maternal mortality crisis. This interactive map and chart summarize proposed and […]
Black Mamas Matter: A Toolkit for Advancing the Human Right to Sage and Respectful Maternal Health Care
Black Mamas Matter: A Toolkit for Advancing the Human Right to Sage and Respectful Maternal Health Care
A comprehensive clinical toolkit with resources and recommendations to improve maternal health, rights, and respect in the black population.
A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration
A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration
This toolkit outlines strategies to center race equity across data integration projects, incuding data collection, data access, analysis, reporting, and dissemination.
Setting the Standard for Holistic Care of and for Black Women
Setting the Standard for Holistic Care of and for Black Women
This paper provides a summary of recommendations that are essential in providing equitable clinical care to women of color.
Health Equity Impact – Implementation Guide Assessment
Health Equity Impact – Implementation Guide Assessment
The Heath Equity Implementation Guide is an adapted assessment from Washington (state) to address programs, policies and / or procedures in community health centers, health departments or other organizations. The […]
Four Steps to Address Racism’s Impact on Maternal and Child Health
Four Steps to Address Racism’s Impact on Maternal and Child Health
This article provides a summary of four key strategies which can help those working in maternal and child health better address and respond to the effects of racism.
A Path to Reproductive Justice: Research, Practice and Policies
A Path to Reproductive Justice: Research, Practice and Policies
The second webinar in APHA’s Advancing Racial Equity series covered reproductive racial disparities. Presenters: Provided context of racism in reproductive care across multiple impacted groups; Shared current advocacy approaches to […]
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.
Perinatal Healthcare Equity Resources
Perinatal Healthcare Equity Resources
Implicit bias e-Learning course for perinatal providers that will cover all of the learning requirements for an evidence-based implicit bias program (Section 123630.6) of California Senate Bill 464. This course […]
Using Social Determinants of Health Data to Improve Health Care and Health: A Learning Report
Using Social Determinants of Health Data to Improve Health Care and Health: A Learning Report
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report on “current and potential future uses of SDOH-related data to improve health and health care and promote a Culture of Health.”
Moving Toward Health Equity by Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Moving Toward Health Equity by Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Open access article in the Journal for Women’s Health on the role of nurses around SDoH in maternity care.
Developing Primary Care–Based Recommendations for Social Determinants of Health: Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Developing Primary Care–Based Recommendations for Social Determinants of Health: Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Open access article in the Annals of Internal Medicine on SDoH screening and management. Authors: Karina W. Davidson, PhD, MASc, Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS, Chyke A. Doubeni, MD, […]
Stage-based implementation of immediated postpartum long-acting reversible contraception using a reproductive justice framework
Stage-based implementation of immediated postpartum long-acting reversible contraception using a reproductive justice framework
The immediate postpartum period is a favorable, safe, and effective time to provide long-acting reversible contraceptives, yet it is not available widely. We describe an innovative hospital-based approach to immediate […]
Implementing Substance Use Screening Toolkit
Implementing Substance Use Screening Toolkit
This toolkit supports Title X grantees, sub-recipients, and service sites in implementing the Title X priority to screen family planning clients for substance use.
Innovative Models of Care for Reducing Inequities in Maternal Health
Innovative Models of Care for Reducing Inequities in Maternal Health
Recorded webcast from workshop which explored how nurses, midwives, and birth companions can improve maternal and infant health, specifically for women in U.S. communities affected by structural and health inequalities.
Telehealth Resources and Strategies
Telehealth Resources and Strategies
Collection of resources related to maternal telehealth, with focus on care during COVID-19. For expectant and new families who do not have continuous phone or internet access,telehealth and virtual health […]
Telemental Health Series
Telemental Health Series
This PSI professional webinar series was created as a response to the immediate need for mental health providers to utilize telemental health platforms, using best practices and reliable technology. All […]
Telehealth in Practice – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Telehealth in Practice – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Webinar from the MHLIC series: Telehealth in Practice.
Telehealth in Practice – Lana’i CHC
Telehealth in Practice – Lana’i CHC
Webinar from the MHLIC series: Telehealth in Practice.
Project ECHO
Project ECHO
Project ECHO is a revolutionary guided-practice model that reduces health disparities in under-served and remote areas of the state, nation, and world. Through innovative telementoring, the ECHO model uses a […]
Beyond the Pandemic: State Policy Options for Supporting Families
Beyond the Pandemic: State Policy Options for Supporting Families
Rigorous research conducted prior to the pandemic has shown that many of the policy changes spurred by COVID-19 can positively impact child and family wellbeing, and this brief highlights several […]
Telehealth Implementation Playbook
Telehealth Implementation Playbook
Playbook that focuses on the implementation of telehealth, defined as real-time audio/visual visits between a physician and patient. This Playbook is designed to support efficient, successful implementation, so physicians, care […]
Storytelling for Public Health
Storytelling for Public Health
Basic and interactive overview of storytelling, including considerations related to audience, purpose v. goal, elements of a story and formats.
Promoting Access to Care for Women of Reproductive Age with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in Rural Communities
Promoting Access to Care for Women of Reproductive Age with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in Rural Communities
This issue brief describes the current challenges in access to care for women of reproductive age with mental health and substance use disorders. It also outlines innovative strategies states are […]
Achieving Health Equity for Disadvantaged Populations
Achieving Health Equity for Disadvantaged Populations
Across the nation, an unprecedented focus is being placed on achieving the goal of health equity. This goal requires acquiring, aggregating, and analyzing data on social determinants of health to […]
MMRIA/Review to Action
MMRIA/Review to Action
Review to Action promotes the maternal mortality review process as the best way to understand why maternal mortality in the United States is increasing and prioritize interventions to improve maternal […]
Community Tool Box
National Implementation Research Network
National Implementation Research Network
Implementation Science resources – Teams, co-creation partners, community engagement, etc.
Community Tool Box
Community Tool Box
Multiple Modules on various topics – Module 1 is Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships; Module 6 is Building Leadership.
A conversation on Meaningful Family Engagement, from Clinical Care to Health Policy
A conversation on Meaningful Family Engagement, from Clinical Care to Health Policy
Engaging with families is vital to transforming the health care system and positively impacting the life course of vulnerable populations. Families have extensive experience in partnering with professionals to improve […]
Pregnancy and Substance Use: A Harm Reduction Toolkit
Pregnancy and Substance Use: A Harm Reduction Toolkit
This information is intended for use by pregnant and parenting people who use drugs, their loved ones, and their service providers.
MCH Navigator: 8 Steps to Building and Sustaining Effective Coalitions
MCH Navigator: 8 Steps to Building and Sustaining Effective Coalitions
This presentation offers advice on how to convince public officials to support community coalitions. It defines community coalitions, explains when and how to use them, and provides eight steps for […]
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 […]
Telehealth and the COVID-19 Response: Policy Changes and Implementation Strategies
Telehealth and the COVID-19 Response: Policy Changes and Implementation Strategies
During this webinar, HMA experts described the different modalities of telehealth and laid out the policy and reimbursement implications for the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Speakers detailed changes to HIPAA […]
Listening to Understand and Not to Respond Across Different Cultural Contexts
Coming Face to Face with My Biased Self
Coming Face to Face with My Biased Self
Objectives Identify and differentiate conscious and unconscious biases Explore the impacts of biases in health and community settings Discuss strategies to mitigate biases at the individual and organization level Identify […]
Open Letter: National Call for Birth Justice and Accountability
Open Letter: National Call for Birth Justice and Accountability
In the United States, women are more likely to die from complications of pregnancy and birth than in any other high-resource country. Black and Indigenous women are 2 to 3 times more […]
Black Mamas Matter Alliance Newsletter
Black Mamas Matter Alliance Newsletter
Black Mamas Matter Alliance shares important resources in their newsletter. Sign up for their updates here.
Hear Her Campaign
Hear Her Campaign
CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health is committed to healthy pregnancies and deliveries for every woman. The Hear Her campaign supports CDC’s efforts to prevent pregnancy-related deaths by sharing potentially life-saving messages about urgent warning signs. Women know […]
Equitable Maternal Health Coalition Continuing Medicaid/CHIP Postpartum Coverage Toolkits
Equitable Maternal Health Coalition Continuing Medicaid/CHIP Postpartum Coverage Toolkits
To help advance collective advocacy efforts to extend Medicaid and CHIP coverage for a minimum of 12 months postpartum, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Association of Maternal […]
Health Equity Starter Kit
Health Equity Starter Kit
Health Outreach Partners “This resource will support you in better understanding health equity as a broader framework to explain and address structural factors, social determinants of health, and health disparities. […]