The Birth Equity Advocacy Project - We spend 100% of our time advocating for equity in Black maternal care and Black infant health.

Systematic racism in our healthcare system and in our healthcare policy that is having a direct impact on the Maternal Mortality rate and Black infant death rate.

The Birth Equity Advocacy Project will create an effective and efficient strategic messaging and awareness campaign broken into three categories of impact Meaningful Messaging, The Black Mom Listening Tour and Coordinated Resource Building. The Birth Equity Awareness Campaign, by using a roundtable format, the Birth Equity Advocacy Project would lead the discussion in understanding what new and existing challenges have been impacted due to COVID-19 and what steps the group believes should be taken to close the gap. Meaningful Messaging for Birth Equity Advocacy means decimating the information collected from the group and translating that into powerful imagery and language. We plan to take the tenacity and urgency this issue needs to every platform and expand our reach as much as possible into the most underserved areas and to the most underserved communities. The Black Mom Listening Tour is the second leg of the Birth Equity Awareness Campaign. By conducting coalition building in our most regionally impacted areas we will use stakeholder influence to launch an engagement campaign. Coordinated Resource Building, is the final approach in our messaging campaign focused on provider education. We will focus on working with our provider based coalitions to ensure a diverse and comprehensive perspective of Birth Equity as it relates to Black Maternal Care to define the line more clearly between clinical intuition and unconscious bias.

Expand existing project, program, or initiative

We have found that awareness is the key to eliminating implicit bias. We shift the narrative and re-create the framework for what it is to be a Black mother in the process of growing life. Our strategic approach is to develop an inclusivity framework through the lens of human rights that will set a trend for a larger conversation that results in tangible self sustaining change. With this help we can ensure more women in Los Angeles feel more supported to demand quality care.

We are measuring impact by the exact amount of women and providers and legislators we are able to reach through direct communication through our awareness campaign and what policy we are able to have an influence on throughout that process. We know for a fact that in the space of Birth Equity for Black Maternal Care there are great 501c3s that have been doing the grass roots work for so long, however they can only allocate a small percentage of their time and funding focused on advocating - that is where we come in! Because we are a 501c4 dedicated to Birth Equity for Black Maternal Care we get to spend 100% of our time advocating and are not limited in funding we can receive or use on this issue.

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