The Alliance for Early Success is a 50-state resource for early-childhood advocates as they pursue the big, sustained impact that will ensure every child in every state, birth through age eight, has an equal chance to grow, learn, and succeed.
The passage of the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act enacts provisions that advocates have long fought for and confronts some of the barriers fueling poor maternal health outcomes, but they insist Arkansas has a long way to go to ensure a healthy birth for every mother and baby.
Learn how cultural safety in Indigenous health care goes beyond cultural competence to address systemic biases, honor Indigenous knowledge, and build relationships rooted in trust and reciprocity.
This webinar from Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Inc. (BMMA) and the Alliance for Early Success explores how the Black perinatal workforce operates under the principles of Birth Justice and Reproductive Justice framework, how they interact with the current political landscape, and how advocates can utilize BMMA’s policy priorities to advance care for postpartum families.
BMMA, Inc. (Black Mamas Matter Alliance) shares how they apply the core frameworks of Birth Justice, Birth Equity, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights to shape policy solutions that advance Black Maternal Health (BMH) and Early Childhood (EC) Health outcomes.
Inspired by the Alliance’s “Alabama Experience” for grantees in 2024, New Jersey advocates brought members of the New Jersey Legislative Black Caucus on a similar pilgrimage to Alabama, in order to deepen relationships and advance equity-centered policy.
EDITORIAL: A recent visit to the civl rights sites in Montgomery crystalized for me the role of law, policy, and institutional choices in codifying racial control. These weren’t unintended outcomes. They were options. Design decisions. Legal architectures. It became painfully clear to me that oppression isn’t accidental. It’s designed. Engineered. Rehearsed. Reinforced. And that clarity brought forth questions—not only “how do I live with this knowledge,” but how do I interrupt it? How do I design for inclusion, for truth, for liberation?
The Alliance and the National Indian Health Board offer an overview of the Indian health system, with a focus on how federal Indian law, tribal sovereignty, and the government’s trust responsibility shape access to care for Native mothers, infants, and young children.
In partnership with Salish Kootenai College, other tribal colleges, and the National American Indian/ Alaska Native Head Start Collaboration Office, Zero to Five Montana helped to launch an Early Childhood Tribal Language Summit in 2019 and recently formed a statewide Early Childhood Tribal Coalition.
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.
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.
