BJC DOCUMENTS
ADVOCACY GUIDE: birth justice collaborative (2024)
This PDF is a free tool for advocates of birth justice and supporters of the Birth Justice Collaborative to reference for legislative support and more.
Created March 2024
birth justice collaborative - Themes synthesis: community wisdom (2022)
This document synthesizes themes from community engagement in African American and American Indian communities in Hennepin County between October and December 2022. Themes are organized using a model that provides a comprehensive context for identifying issues that could impact maternal health and well-being at societal, community, institutional, interpersonal, and individual levels.
literature review: birth justice collaborative knowledge (2022)
This document discusses strategies drawn from peer-reviewed literature and from community-based birth justice coalitions across the US that have been evaluated in some manner. Updated February 2023
Birth Justice Collaborative: initiative summary (2023)
Community knowledge identified the root causes of current maternal health disparities for American Indian and African American people and effective responsive strategies outlined in literature. The strategies were aligned with a socio-ecological model to acknowledge that individual health and well-being is linked with past and future generations, strongly intertwined with societal policy and community environments, and highly affected during sensitive periods such as childhood.
