Implementation of a community-based doula program targeting Medicaid-eligible pregnant women in Bay and Saginaw counties. Culturally relevant training for local doula recruits to eventually provide non-clinical emotional, physical, and informational support to...
A collaborative cohort of doulas that will receive free doula training and serve as doula ambassadors in return. The doula cohort will provide education and outreach services in Muskegon County and leverage the new Michigan Medicaid doula policy within the How YOU...
The Centering Pregnancy model will improve and increase access to prenatal care in Northeast Michigan by facilitating a family-centered small group setting that supports patient engagement, provider-patient interaction, and health navigation.
Through this project, Beaumont Health Foundation (Beaumont) and Michigan Medicine will improve pharmacological therapy and mental health support for pregnant women in the antepartum period, during delivery, and upto a year postpartum with the goal of preventing or...
Birth Detroit will hire a public relations consultant to help with strategy, dissemination, media buys, campaign placement, and design direction. The vision for success for this project includes increased public awareness about what community-based birth and midwifery...
This project is the “phase 2” of a 2019 SPEI project and is intended to provide support for successful implementation of the Achieving Birth Equity through Systems Transformation (ABEST) plans in Berrien County and select tribal communities as well as to...
This proposed initiative creates a comprehensive, collected analysis of events, programs, and preventative efforts aimed at reducing infant mortality within the City of Detroit, Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties in 2019 and in the years preceding, with the goals of...
This project will provide a group mentoring program for post-partum adolescents with the goal of delaying subsequent pregnancies. Corner Health Center will provide structured group mentoring sessions on contraception and individualized and group sessions to provide...
Through this grant opportunity, Fremont Area Community Foundation facilitated, coordinated, and provided funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI) in Lake, Newaygo, and Osceola counties. Member organizations of the LiveWell coalition in Newaygo...
