Black Maternal Health Coalition

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Birth Justice
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Advocacy

I Be Black Girl believes policy is a driver for change within our approach to reproductive justice. Policy has historically been weaponized against Black communities. As a result, we are committed to building Black political power to address the harm and chart a new experience of legislation that centers Black women, femmes and girls.

Birth Justice

Using a Collective Action Framework, I Be Black Girl is catalyzing a movement to disrupt the systems that perpetuate incidence of maternal morbidity, mortality and traumatic care experiences using strategies that center the voices, experiences, and leadership of Black women and Black birthing people. We deserve to not just live through our birthing experiences but thrive.

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Black Led Investment

I Be Black Girl enables resource redistribution led by and for Black women, femmes, and girls in Nebraska as well as a place for institutional philanthropy to live. These philanthropic efforts have changed the landscape of philanthropy in Omaha by inviting Black women, femmes, and girls to give in ways that are meaningful and through a trusted outlet creating collective power

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Economic Justice

This country has spent countless decades depriving Black people of economic security, abundance and dignity, leading to a scarcity mindset rooted in injustice. I Be Black Girl’s priority is to abolish pay equity gaps and work to give Black women, femmes and girls the ability to live whole, abundant lives.

Catalyst

Black Maternal Health Coalition

I Be Black Girl works with a number of partners through coalition building and various activities to help advance Black birth justice in Nebraska.

The intent of this coalition is to center Black women and birthing folks in the maternal health ecosystem to help improve outcomes and the experience of Black women and folks with a reproductive system when they decide to get pregnant and parent. The majority of the coalition (80%) members identify as Black women who hold formal or informal roles in the maternal health and birth justice ecosystems.

Coalition Goals

Create greater communication across the ecosystem
Build stronger partnerships and collaboration across the ecosystem
Transform and influence the ecosystem
Reimagine the face of Black maternal health in Nebraska

Coalition Members

A Mother’s Love
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
March of Dimes
Nebraska Medicine
Methodist
CHI
Nebraska Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative
Charles Drew: Omaha Healthy Start
CityMatCH
Touch of Gold
UNMC College of Public Health

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