DOCUMENTS

Postpartum Support Pilot

BJC POSTPARTUM SUPPORT PILOT EVALUATION (2025)

Using a mixed-method approach and validated scales, these are the pilot participant results and outcomes of the BJC Postpartum Support Pilot conducted from Spring 2024-Summer 2025.

Birthing Rights Guide

BIRTHING BILL OF RIGHTS ADVOCACY GUIDE (2025)

Developed over the course of fully participatory, anti-bias workshops, this guide reflects the lived experiences, knowledge, and advocacy of those most impacted by birth injustices.

Cover page of a guide titled "The Advocate’s Guide to Supporting Birth Justice" with colorful illustrations of community by Andres Guzman, representing themes like consent, language, trauma, options, and birth prep.

Advocacy Guide

BIRTH JUSTICE ADVOCACY GUIDE (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.

Initiative Summary

Artist Andres Guzman's colorful illustration depicting our community in discussion, with words like 'Access", 'Ancestral Tools', 'Pregnancy Care', 'Legacy of Trauma', 'Flying Together', 'Ceremony', 'Sacred Birth', surrounded by vibrant color.

BJC 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.

Cover page of a report titled 'Birth Justice Collaborative Community Themes Synthesis, December 2022' featuring an illustration of a large hand holding a sleeping baby in a green outfit, surrounded by colorful flowers and sparkles, with photos of diverse women in conversation on a dark background.

Community Wisdom

THEMES SYNTHESIS: COMMMUNITY WISDOM (2023)

This document synthesizes themes from community engagement in African American and American Indian communities in Hennepin County between October and December 2022.

Birth Justice Collaborative Literature Review Cover: Digital illustration of two golden eagles flying against a dark background with a multicolored circular glow around them.

Literature Review

LITERATURE REVIEW: BJC 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.

INITIATIVE 1-PAGERS

Postpartum Pilot

POSTPARTUM SUPPORT PILOT LEARNING AND EVALUATION REPORT

HomePlace

INTERCONNECTED SUPPORTS ROOTED IN LOVE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN BIRTHING FAMILIES

AIBC

AMERICAN INDIAN BIRTHING CENTER: CULTURALLY ROOTED CARE IN SACRED SPACES

Birthing Bill of Rights

A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR MINNESOTA BIRTHING PEOPLE AND THEIR ADVOCATES

MEDIA/PRESS

Esteemed former Director of the Birth Justice Collaborative, Corenia Smith, holding a microphone, smiling, during an interview event.
A group of diverse young advocates, including some in professional attire and some in casual clothing, are posing together inside the Minnesota Capitol building. The photo is labeled "Policy Agenda Progress May 2024."
Representative Oumou Verbeten wearing a yellow blazer and Senator Kunesh, in a teal jacket sitting at a table, reviewing BJC documents together. There is a microphone, a pen, a sheet of paper, and a phone on the table.
Some of the BJC coalition partners at the Health and Human Services meeting room in the Minnesota Senate building. The caption reads 'Birth justice bills heard in Senate April 2024.'
Partners Deanna StandingCloud, Akhmiri Sekhr-Ra, Makeda Zulu, and Pastor Dr. Alika Galloway sitting in a panel at the Whole Person Health Summit at the University of St. Thomas, with Pastor Galloway holding a microphone.
Artist Andres Guzman's colorful illustration depicting our community in discussion, with words like 'Access", 'Ancestral Tools', 'Pregnancy Care', 'Legacy of Trauma', 'Flying Together', 'Ceremony', 'Sacred Birth', surrounded by vibrant color.
People seated at round tables in a large room, attending the Doula Appreciation Lunch in May 2024, with a screen displaying the event's name and theme.
Minnesota Capitol building in the background with tree branches at the top right corner, grass in the foreground. Overlay text reads 'Birth justice bills adopted May 2024'.

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