Birthing Beautiful Communities and Village of Healing — an organization and a women’s health clinic working to reduce infant mortality and support maternal health in the Black community — will form a collaborative to share a $1.2 million, two-year grant.
were more than twice as likely to die in the first year of their lives as white newborns in 2021, according to city records.
In 2020, Ohio’s infant mortality rate was 6.7 per 1,000 births, among the worst in the United States,Atlanta and Detroit, along with Cleveland, were selected to receive grants provided by the Atlanta-based Creating Healthier Communities, which empowers local organizations to reduce high rates of preterm births among Black women, the organization said in a press release.
Creating Healthier Communities considered up to three eligible organizations in those cities, the organization said. Cleveland’s Birthing Beautiful Communities and Village of Healingpresident and CEO Jean Accius in an email interview.Long’s organization, Birthing Beautiful Communities, provides perinatal support doulas, also called birth workers, and social support to pregnant women whose babies are at the highest risk for infant mortality.
In addition to the Black Birthing Initiative grant, Birthing Beautiful Communities recently was awardedfrom the city of Cleveland. The stimulus money will be used for a new $12-million birthing center in Cleveland. Birthing Beautiful Communities and Village of Healing believe that doulas and midwives help reduce infant mortality“We know that doulas are a life-saving force for pregnant people who are African American,” Long said. “We see this with the statistics that we have in our organization, and with the statistics that our peers have across the country.”physical and emotional support to their client before, during and shortly after childbirth.
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