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It takes a Village: The Maternal Wellness Village

By Oshun Family Center
Added: December 31, 2020
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There is a fundamental need for multilevel interventions emerging from the lived- experience and expertise of Black women that provide support from early pregnancy through the end of the first postpartum year. To remedy this treatment gap, the multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians at Temple University has partnered with Oshun Family Center/Maternal Wellness Village, a group of Philadelphia-based Black birth workers, in order to develop an innovative, theory and evidence-based intervention that 1) uses telehealth platforms to provide Black birthing persons with racially-concordant community doula care, wraparound mental health and lactation support before, during, and after birth; 2) employs empirically supported peripartum lifestyle interventions delivered through mobile technologies to reduce cardiovascular risk factors, and 3) addresses structural racism and respectful maternity care through anti-racism and trauma-informed training of frontline providers and staff.

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Written by:
Kelli Sheppard
Published on:
December 31, 2020

Resource Information

Author: Oshun Family Center
Audience: Clinical
Type: Spark Session
Category: Telehealth
Dimension: Learn
Topics: Black Maternal Health, Doula, Equity, Peripartum, Race, Structural Racism
MHLIC is committed to providing reliable, accurate resources that will increase the user’s knowledge and/or ability to improve the state of maternal health in the United States. Some of the resources may be primarily informational and others may be oriented more towards capacity-building to implement a program or action. Many will be a blend of the two. Read our full terms and disclaimer here.

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