Resources - Community Catalyst

Implicit Bias
- Protecting Your Birth: A Guide For Black Mothers. How racism can impact your pre- and postnatal care – and advice for speaking to your Ob-Gyn about it:
  https://www.nytimes.com/article/black-mothers-birth.html
- March of Dimes Implicit Bias Training for health professionals:
  https://www.marchofdimes.org/professionals/professional-education.aspx:
- Eliminating Inequities in Perinatal Health Care Project:
  https://www.diversityscience.org/training-and-education/equal-perinatal-care/
- Kirwan Institute: Implicit Bias Module Series
  http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/implicit-bias-training/
- Project Implicit, Implicit Association Test
  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
- The Impact of Institutional Racism on Maternal and Child Health; National Institute for Children’s Health Quality:
  https://www.nichq.org/insight/impact-institutional-racism-maternal-and-child-health
Medicaid Postpartum Extension
- Equitable Maternal Health Coalition:
  https://www.equitablemhc.org/ppmedicaidtoolkits
- National Academy of State Health Policy; Each State’s Efforts to Extend Medicaid Coverage to Postpartum Women:
  https://www.nashp.org/view-each-states-efforts-to-extend-medicaid-coverage-to-postpartum-women/
- Texans Care for Children, Texas Should Take These Steps for Healthy Moms and Babies:
  https://txchildren.org/posts/2020/8/4/tx-should-take-these-steps-for-healthy-moms-and-babies
Midwives and Doulas
- Mapping integration of midwives across the United States: Impact on access, equity, and outcomes:
  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192523:
- Midwifery and quality care: findings from a new evidence-informed framework for maternal and newborn care:
  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60789-3/fulltext
- National Academy of State Health Policy; Four State Strategies to Employ Doulas to Improve Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes in Medicaid:
  https://www.nashp.org/four-state-strategies-to-employ-doulas-to-improve-maternal-health-and-birth-outcomes-in-medicaid/
- Continuous support for women during childbirth:
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6483123/
- Impact of Doulas on Healthy Birth Outcomes:
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647727/
Postpartum Tools
- Postpartum Depression and Screening Tool from Mental Health America:
  https://screening.mhanational.org/content/what-postpartum-depression-ppd
- March of Dimes Postpartum Depression
  https://www.marchofdimes.org/pregnancy/postpartum-depression.aspx
- Domestic Violence Resources in Harris County from Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council:
- https://www.hcdvcc.org/resources/resourcesforsurvivors/
- Healthy Women Houston:
  https://www.healthywomenhouston.org/
- Urgent Maternal Warning Signs
  https://safehealthcareforeverywoman.org/urgentmaternalwarningsigns/