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Health Equity

 Project: MANA Stats Increasing our Enrollment to Midwives of Color and LGBT Community Midwives
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Project: MANA Stats Increasing our Enrollment to Midwives of Color and LGBT Community Midwives

Applicant Organization: Midwives Alliance of North America, Division of Access and Equity The MANA Division of Research hosts the largest database in the country that collects prospective data on [...]

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 Project:  Moving Division of Access and Equity forward – Second Pilot Project
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Project: Moving Division of Access and Equity forward – Second Pilot Project

Applicant Organization: Midwives Alliance of North America, Division of Access and Equity Thanks to FAM Birth Trustees, the MANA Division of Access and Equity State Pilot Project was launched in [...]

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 Project:  The Giving Voice to Mothers Study: Speaking Truth about Respect and Racism
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Project: The Giving Voice to Mothers Study: Speaking Truth about Respect and Racism

Applicant Organization: Home Birth Summit Consumer Task Force The Giving Voice to Mothers study has collected new information on how experience of maternity care in the US is affected by race, [...]

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 Project: Quiero Entender (“I Want to Understand”)
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Project: Quiero Entender (“I Want to Understand”)

Applicant Organization: Commonsense Childbirth, Inc. Quiero Entender provides for much-needed Spanish-language outreach and services to low income, non-English-speaking Latino women in need of [...]

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 Project: Expanding the Midwifery Model of Care in Communities of Color
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Project: Expanding the Midwifery Model of Care in Communities of Color

Applicant Organization: California Association of Midwives Racial inequities in birth outcomes persist. And research shows that chronic stress, including racism and discrimination, negatively [...]

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 Project: The Midwifery Assistant Program
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Project: The Midwifery Assistant Program

Applicant Organization: Ancient Song Doula Services Ancient Song Doula Services’ Midwifery Assistant Program (MAP) strives to increase the number of midwives of color to ultimately increase [...]

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    We thank you… The Board of Directors for the Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery (FAM) thanks you for your support and engagement! With your help, we can cultivate equitable and abundant connections between midwives and families… Resulting in the thriving outcomes of empowered midwifery in every community. Our Commitment… We are committed to placing […]Read More

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