Project: MANA Communications Program Support
Applicant Organization: Midwives Alliance of North America Birthing people in North America are continually given conflicting and often erroneous information about childbirth, normal physiologic [...]
Project: The Midwifery Access and Integration Report Card: Telling the Story
Applicant Organization: Home Birth Summit Research and Data Taskforces We will produce a Midwifery Integration and Access State Report Card. Our color-coded, interactive data maps prove that [...]
Project: MANA Health Policy and Advocacy Division Collaboration with Integrative Health Policy Consortium (IHPC) – Midwifery Care Reimbursement Identification Project
Applicant Organization: Midwives Alliance of North America, Health Policy and Advocacy Division Midwives across the United States struggle with being reimbursed for their services. States have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
National Association of Certified Professional Midwives / The MAMA Campaign
H.R. 1976 (originally H.R. 1054), the Access to Certified Professional Midwives Act, recently re-introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in May 2013, will open doors to full access to CPM [...]