Alliance News and Events

Black Maternal Health Week Webinar with Michigan Advocates: Community Voices in Maternal Health Policy

April 24, 2025

In honor of Black Maternal Health Week 2025 (#BMHW25), the Alliance for Early Success and the Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health (MCMCH) co-hosted a webinar on engaging community voice and partnerships to enhance maternal health. Watch the recording to learn how community-informed research and policymaking is supporting support Black maternal health in Michigan.

Watch the Alliance and Elephant Circle Webinar on Advancing Midwife Policy

April 23, 2025

The US has the worst perinatal outcomes of any developed nation in the world. In countries where outcomes are better, midwives (not physicians) are the primary care providers for the vast majority of pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people. On April 23, Elephant Circle and the Alliance for Early Success came

BEE Collective Is Healing Communities and Building Power in South Carolina

April 16, 2025

As part of our celebration of this year’s Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17), the Alliance is spotlighting a few of the maternal health organizations that you may not have heard about. The Beloved Early Education and Care Collective (BEE Collective) works in the southern part of South Carolina, outside of Charleston, and is focused on building on the assets of the pregnant people, children, and caregivers who are furthest from opportunity — work that creates the kind of deep community that heals itself and builds increasing power.

Meet I Be Black Girl, Nebraska’s First and Only Reproductive Justice Organization

April 14, 2025

As part of our celebration of this year’s Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17), the Alliance is spotlighting I Be Black Girl, a maternal health organization that focuses on policy and power building, Black-led investments, birth justice, and economic justice.

Alliance Webinar with CSCCE on Using 2024 Research Data to Drive Policy Change for the Early Care and Education Workforce

March 13, 2025

The Alliance and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment discuss CSCCE’s 2024 child care workforce index and how the index’s messages and findings can be used to drive policy change that centers the experiences of early educators in all 50 states.

Alliance Webinar with Black Mamas Matter Alliance on Reproductive Justice and Early Childhood Advocacy

February 25, 2025

Early childhood and reproductive justice advocates share a vision that parents nurture their children in safe and healthy environments. Both movements value family decision-making, community knowledge and leadership, and policy change. Together, early childhood and reproductive justice advocates can create a world in which maternal and child health are optimized and families with young children live in thriving communities. This webinar explores the history and origins of the reproductive justice movement, reviews of the structural and systemic policy impacts on Prenatal-to-3, and names the mutual values and priorities shared with early childhood advocates.