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BMIHEC press release 2025
Black Maternal Infant Health Equity Collaborative
In December 2023, the Health Foundation of South Florida and a coalition of Miami healthcare organizations formed an historic collaborative program, the Black Maternal Infant Health Equity Collaborative (BMIHEC) to address some of the critical needs of the Miami birthing community regarding maternal and infant health.
Black Mamas Matter Alliance Congressional Briefing
The 2nd Annual Black Maternal Health Week brought the issue of the disproportionally high rates of mortality Black mamas and parents face in this country to members of congress. Check out Jamarah Amani, Executive Director of SBJN and featured panelists in this congressional highlight video.
United Nations NGO CSW Panel on Maternal Mortality
SBJN's Executive Director Jamarah Amani presents the birth justice frame work, remarks on Midwifery, and her personal birth story as a featured Panelist of the United Nations NGO CSW Panel on Maternal Mortality.
DBM Ep 57 Meditations By Mamas Rising Meditation You Are Enough w Jamarah Amani
Angela Hardison-Breckinridge, SBJN Doula/ Board Member speaks truth to power at the discussion of RS BR 344 relating to paid parental leave at the interim joint committee on state government.
Birth Equity In Action
This webinar features Jamarah Amani, executive director of Southern Birth Justice Network as she speaks to over 100 Birth Workers at Health Connect One, Birth Equity Leadership Academy.
"We cannot talk about health disparities without taking about power, and how lack of access to power over the course of one's life impacts the ability to be healthy," Jamarah Amani
Improving Health Outcomes With Holistic Midwifery
Black Maternal Health Week 2020 | Wednesday, April 15, 2020
This webinar will address root causes of disparities in black maternal health outcomes and will highlight how the medicalization of childbirth has complicated and marginalized black midwifery in the United States. Challenges and opportunities for Black midwives today will also be explored as we look to traditional care models as solutions for the maternal mortality crisis
Justice For Tammy: Press Conference Highlights
Jasmine Roger Shaw, Miami Workers Center, Jamarah Amani, Southern Birth Justice Network and Tifanny Burks, South Florida Healing issue a call to action in response to the treatment of Tammy Jackson who was denied medical treatment while giving birth in a Broward County jail cell.
Campaign & Advocacy Outreach Videos
Young Mamas Panel
SBJN's Circle of Mamas share their stories of birth and loss, speak on the challenges and rewards of parenting, and gain insight into birth justice organizing principles. This is a must see for young, expecting parents, and anyone who supports them!
Black Mamas Bailout
SBJN is a proud collaborative partner of the South Florida Black Mamas Bailout, a part of a national movement to end pretrial detention and ultimately the abolishment of mass incarceration.
3 out of 4 women are in cages for minor offenses like driving with a suspended license. 80% of incarcerated women are parents.
Learn more about how you can support this campaign and please consider making a donation via newfm.win/bailout or donate directly to the Southern Birth Justice Network.
Birth Worker's In Action
SBJN features highlights of Birth Workers from across the country represented in our recent Birth Workers' Panel. Find out how this dynamic group of Black Midwives and Doulas advocate for Birth Justice in their work and communities.
Black Mamas Bailout
SBJN is a proud collaborative partner of the South Florida Black Mamas Bailout, a part of a national movement to end pretrial detention and ultimately the abolishment of mass incarceration.
3 out of 4 women are in cages for minor offenses like driving with a suspended license. 80% of incarcerated women are parents.
Learn more about how you can support this campaign and please consider making a donation via newfm.win/bailout or donate directly to the Southern Birth Justice Network.
Quarantine Party Playlist: Celebrating Black Mamas
Chosen and Given: A Guided Meditation
In celebration of Black Maternal Health week we encouraged our Mamas to turn inward to focus on health, self-acceptance, and self love in a special guided meditation. Find a comfortable seated position and click on the link below.
SBJN presented an overview of the History of Black Midwifery Timeline at the Black & Brown Womxn at the Center: RJ 101 Workshop. Executive Director, Jamarah Amani spoke on the life and legacy of ancestor Midwives and how their work became a precursor to Reproductive Justice as we experience it today.
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