BJC Strategies


Priority Initiatives

Anti-Bias Maternal Healthcare

Design and implement an anti-bias report card program.

Pilot a post-partum support program for the first year after birth.

Maternal Health Advocacy MN

Collectively pursue a shared advocacy agenda that furthers our desired outcomes.

Community-Driven Birth Initiatives

Create a cultural advocate and navigator pathway and recruit/train community members.

Culturally Competent Maternity Services

Establish a community-endorsed cultural provider network for families and systems.

Cultural Providers in Maternity Care

Our Desired Outcomes

  • Improved birth outcomes and birth experiences for families

  • Increased family access to and use of meaningful and cultural supports and resources pre-post partum

  • Increased inclusion of community members and cultural healers in birthing support and resources

  • Measurable behavior change in providers and systems that improves birth experiences as reported by families

  • Increased payments for cultural providers that reflect the true costs of addressing the impacts of racism

What we do

  1. We raise up priority strategies by meaningfully engaging our communities.

  2. We incubate collaborative strategy implementation.

  3. We movement-build and story-tell across sectors and culture to resource, realize and replicate our work.

WhY WE EXIST

We collectively advance maternal health and birth justice in our communities.