For the first time in nearly 100 years, experts recommend new pregnancy care guidelines that focus on tailoring care to individual patients. This prenatal care delivery model was designed by Michigan Medicine and now serves as a national model.
AIM CCI is a national, community-focused effort to reduce maternal complications and preventable deaths by implementing standardized “safety bundles” in non-hospital settings—especially in underserved and high-risk communities—with support from federal funding, technical assistance, and local partnerships. It’s active in over a dozen pilot locations, including Grand Rapids, MI.
This quality improvement initiative supports best practices that make birth safer. They offer technical assistance, resources, data management tools, training, and learning opportunities to participating AIM states for implementing AIM patient safety bundles via SaferBirth.org, its official resource hub.
MMHLA is a leading national nonprofit dedicated to improving maternal mental health in the U.S. It works through advocacy, partnerships and information including resources, training and awareness tools.
KIDS COUNT, hosted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is an online data platform offering free access to hundreds of indicators about child, youth, and family well-being across the U.S., including national, state, and local levels.
The Section offers data and epidemiologic reports across many domains, including infant health, birth defects, family planning, maternal mortality, and more. For example, it tracks infant, neonatal, and post-neonatal mortality rates, explores trends in stillbirth, preterm birth, low birthweight, and their geographic clusters across designated prosperity region.
KFF offers state profiles for women’s health, including data on births by race/ethnicity, teen birth rates, preterm and low weight births, infant mortality, maternal mortality.
PRAMS Reports are publications and data about maternal behaviors and experiences before, during, and after pregnancy. It is a CDC-partnered surveillance effort, offering annual state and metro-level findings, thematic briefs, visual tools, and survey documentation about maternal and infant health in Michigan.
Hosted by Wayne State University’s Office of Women’s Health, this is a regionalized, directory that helps pregnant and postpartum individuals in Michigan find essential caregiving resources—from housing to health care—by filtering according to region, county, and type of service. The listings are updated quarterly.
Michigan Breastfeeding Network offers free webinars that launch on the third Tuesday of the month at 8am EST. Webinars are available to watch for up to 1 year after the initial air date.
MDHHS’s Division of Maternal Infant Health,holds quarterly Mother Infant Health Collaborative Meetings to bring the communities’ work together and ensure multi-sector partners have a space to work together. This work is part of Michigan’s Advancing Healthy Births Plan. Anyone with an interest in maternal, infant and family health is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Aftershock is a documentary t about the systemic failures contributing to the maternal health crisis in the U.S.—particularly the disproportionate mortality of Black women—by following the stories of Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac, both of whom died from preventable childbirth complications.
Toxic: A Black Woman’s Story is a short film that follows Nina—a Black professional in her second trimester—as she navigates a single day filled with chronic racial stressors and micro-aggressions, illustrating how these cumulative pressures can adversely impact maternal and infant health outcomes.
Hosted by the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP), MCH Bridges aims to inspire and guide actions that will improve the systems that impact maternal and child health populations. This podcast lifts up stories and people from the MCH field by centering the voices of the public health workforce, people and communities most impacted by challenges, and individuals and families with lived experiences.
Hosted by Michigan’s Children, Speaking for Kids is a podcast that features conversations with people impacted by or making public policy decisions affecting Michigan’s children, youth, and families. New episodes are released monthly.
Postpartum Support International (PSI) staff and volunteers reflect on their own lived experience during the perinatal period.
Brought to you by Southeast Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative (SEMPQIC), 100 Voices is a video library of birth journeys. Storytellers share their experiences to raise awareness better maternal health.
This video teaser showcases Kara Zivin, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., M.F.A.’s research portfolio, including studying the financial and societal costs of untreated perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She explores the prevalence of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and why screening and treatment plans for these conditions are essential in overall maternal care.
This video demonstrates the basic principles of group prenatal care through CenteringPregnancy, focusing on the patient experience.
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