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

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.

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BEE Collective Is Healing Communities and Building Power in South Carolina

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.

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

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.

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