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Training Objectives:

To better implement solutions for Black Maternal Health, attendees will walk through a timeline to fully understand the United States Maternal Health system and their role in it. At the end of the session, attendees will be able to understand how the United States Maternal Health System is setup, delivered to black mothers and how their role as change agents and providers.

Attendees will walk through a cultural and evidence-based facts on the roots of Maternal Health for Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC). At the end of the session attendees will have be able to site cultural contexts of normal, safe and respectable maternal care for BIPOC, understand the significance and importance of culturally based care and site historical markers where we began to fail BIPOC in maternal health.

At the end of this session, attendees will understand systemic policy and procedures geared towards the harm of black mothers and learn how to re-write and present policies and procedures that protect black mothers.

At the end of this session attendees will understand the dynamics of creating “warm”, safe comforting spaces while including representation in the interior design that honors the clients being served.

Lunch will provide attendees time to nourish themselves, mingle and take a mental-emotional break from training.

At the end of this session attendees will understand what inclusivity is vs. diversity, how to apply inclusivity, understand what bias is, what their personal biases are and how to unlearn their biases.

At the end of this session attendees will understand how to integrate informed choice vs. informed consent, Mental, Emotional & Empathetic/Compassionate (Come-Passion) care into their medical perinatal practice.

At the end of this session attendees will understand the research proven dangers of over-intervention as prevention and how to practice within the accurate risk range for mothers.

At the end of this session, clients will be able to identify the different objectives learned for the day by creating a wheel of personal and group (clinic, hospital, practice) action in implementing thriving solutions for black maternal health in St. Louis.