Improved Experience
Human Rights and Reproductive Justice
Health System Accountability
- National Birth Equity Collaborative
- Birthing Cultural Rigor
- A resource for every day people to defend human rights during labor and birth, Birth Rights Bar Association
- Maintaining Rights During a Pandemic, Birth Rights Bar Association
- Advancing Birth Justice: Community-Based Doula Models as a Standard of Care for Ending Racial Disparities
- Costly Characteristics of and Antidotes to White Supremacy
- International Childbirth Initiative: 12 Steps to Safe and Respectful MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care
Measurement and Reporting
Understanding Your Rights
- White Ribbon Alliance - Universal Rights of Women & Newborns
- Black Birthing Bill of Rights
- Birth Justice Bill of Rights
- NYC Standards for Respectful Care at Birth Brochure
- NYC Standards for Respectful Care at Birth Poster
- Sexual and Reproductive Justice Community Engagement Group (SRJ CEG) Web page
- Sexual and Reproductive Justice Community Engagement Group (SRJ CEG) video
- Sexual and Reproductive Justice Community Engagement Group (SRJ CEG) one pager
Labour Care
- Continuous Support for Women During Childbirth
- Undisturbed Labour and Birth Index: quality improvement tool for facilities
- Birth Tools: online implementation guide
- Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: (full report and many related resources for diverse stakeholders including policymakers, infographics, consumer booklet, etc.)
- The Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing
- ACNM Bundle: Intermittent Auscultation
- ACNM Bundle: Promoting Spontaneous Progress in Labor
- ACNM Bundle: Promoting Comfort in Labor
- ACOG and Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine: Obstetric Care Consensus: Safe Prevention of the Primary Cesarean Delivery
Innovative Models for Service Delivery
CBOs that Support Community Health
- New Voices for Reproductive Justice
- Sister Reach
- Sister Song
- Center for Black Womens Wellness
- Mama Sana
- Healthy Start Pittsburgh
- National Association to Advance Black Birth
- Mamatoto Village: Home Visitation Service, Perinatal Community Health Worker Training
- The Intune Mother Project: The Greener Birth Initiative
Health Professional Education
- Person-Centered Decision Making Tool: a clear step by step guide for professionals working together to keep the focus on the service user’s context and priorities for care
- Brown University: Midwifery Faculty for Obstetric Residency
- Bastyr University: Implicit Bias Training Curricula and Scholarship programs to increase providers of color
- Black Women's Maternal Health: A Multifaceted Approach to Addressing Persistent and Dire Health Disparities
- Dialogue and Decisions, a novel interprofessional online course for physicians, midwives, nurses, teaching skills in respectful communication, cultural safety and person-centered decision making
Effective Collaboration
Policy Initiatives
- Black Maternal Health Momnibus Bill Tracker
- Recommendations to the New York Governor to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Racial Disparities
- Midwifery Integration
- Overdue: Medicaid and Private Insurance Coverage of Doula Care
- Doula Care Insurance Coverage Infographic
- State Report Cards: national and state resources showing the effects of midwifery integration on outcomes
The Evidence
- The Access and Integration Maternity Care Mapping Study, and State Report Cards: national and state resources showing the effects of midwifery integration on outcomes
- Giving Voice to Mothers, Listening to Mothers-California : new information on how midwifery connects to outcomes
- Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns Evaluation
- Lancet series on Scaling up Midwifery, improving Maternal Health, and Optimal Use of Cesarean Section
- The Causal Inference Framework: A Primer on Concepts and Methods for Improving the Study of Well-Woman Childbearing Processes