BMC Endorsed
Resources
BMC Endorsed
Resources
Local Community
Southside Chicago
Children’s Activity & Enrichment
Hello Baby is the nation’s first free standing, free of charge drop in play space for babies, toddlers and their caregivers.
Hyde Park Neighborhood Club brings people together to strengthen the health, vitality, and sustainability of our diverse local community through programs and partnerships, with a particular focus on child and youth development.
Community Outreach
Gifts from Liam collects diaper donations which are then repackaged with educational information and distributed through different community organizations. They provide education, services, and resources to promote healthy pregnancies and babies and supports families experiencing a perinatal loss.
Health & Wellness
Chicago Home Birth Midwife is Star August’s Chicago-based home birth midwifery practice. Services include prenatal care, home birth, childbirth education, postpartum & newborn care, and placenta encapsulation.
BA NIA Inc is a reproductive justice and health equity organization focused on serving BIPOC birthing people on the South Side of Chicago. BA NIA implements 30 years of knowledge and experience nurturing the whole woman, child, and family.
Salaam Community Wellness Center focuses attention on addressing four critical areas of need: culturally-responsive primary care, addiction treatment, mental health, and nutrition.
National Community
Our list is slowly growing. Please let us know if you have anything to add!
Advocacy
The Afiya Center
Texas
TAC is transforming the lives, health, and overall wellbeing of Black womxn and girls by providing refuge, education, and resources; acting to ignite the communal voices of Black womxn resulting in our full achievement of reproductive freedom.
Birth Rights Bar
Colorado
BRBA is a part of a growing global movement to ensure the human rights of people seeking reproductive health services, with special attention to childbirth, are respected and integrated into care provision.
The Intersection
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a leading national philanthropy dedicated to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime. Through funding, convening, advocacy, and evidence-building, we work side-by-side with communities, practitioners, and institutions to get to health equity faster and pave the way together to a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.
Health Advocacy
Cerebral Palsy Guide
Florida
Cerebral Palsy Guide is a national advocacy group dedicated to supporting those who have been affected by birth injuries, cerebral palsy, and other developmental disabilities.
Healthy and Free Tennessee
Tennessee
Healthy and Free Tennessee is a network of agencies, organizations, and individuals working together to promote sexual health and reproductive freedom in the state of Tennessee.
Growing Inspiration
If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice envisions a transformation of the legal systems and institutions that perpetuate oppression into structures that realize justice, and a future when all people can self-determine their reproductive lives free from discrimination, coercion, or violence.
JMACforFamilies works to abolish the current punitive child welfare system and to strengthen the systems of supports that keep families and communities together.
The Birth Place Lab. Best Practice Guidelines for Interprofessional Collaboration: Community Midwives and Specialist Providers.
Mapping Collaboration Across Birth Settings.
Increased access to and greater integration of midwives is associated with improved outcomes for families across birth settings, even when taking into account the impact of race.
upEnd Movement is a collaborative movement that works to abolish the existing child welfare system, which is built on a model of surveillance and separation and more accurately described as a family policing system. Abolition requires ending this oppressive system AND imagining and recreating the ways in which society supports children, families, and communities in being safe and thriving.
Recommended Reading
Pregnancy, Birth, & Postpartum
- How to Conceive Naturally and Have a Baby After 30
- Taking Charge of your Fertility
- Birthing from Within
- Expecting Better
- HypnoBirthing
- Inna May Gaskins Guide to Childbirth
- Pushed
- Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
- Real Food for Pregnancy
- The Birth Partner
- Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
- Period Repair: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods
- The First 40 Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
- The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide…
- The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
Research Articles
- Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism
- Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Community Birth Settings
- Mapping Integration of Midwives Across the United States: Impact on access, Equity, and Outcomes
- The Giving Voice to Mothers study: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States
- The Technocratic Model of Birth
Reports & Studies
- Community Innovations to Improve Black Maternal Health
- AHSG Reversing the US Maternal Mortality Crisis Report 2021
- CMS Innovation Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns Initiative
- Structural Racism And Black Women’s Employment In The US Health Care Sector
- Improving Maternity Community Birth Settings
- Birth Outcome Planned Home and Licensed Birth Center Births
- Professional Supremacism: Holding on to the Past…Holding Back Our Future
- Renfrew - Midwifery and Quality Care - Lancet
- Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns - Evauation of Full Performance Period.
- Vision for High Quality Maternity Care
- White House Maternal Health Blueprint
- Pregnancy-Related Deaths in the US, 2018-2022
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