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Birthworkers launch free Village of Care workshop series

by Pacific Daily News

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California Pushes To Raise
Medi-Cal Doula Benefit Awareness

by NEENMA EBELEDIKE
The Observer

Michigan pays $3.5M for doulas
so low-income moms have healthy births

 

By Jennifer Chambers

The Detroit News

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Strengthening Birth Support: L.A. Care Honored by Birth Workers of Color Collective

By L.A. Care's Media Relations team

LA CARE HEALTH PLAN

Too many Pacific women die in childbirth. How can they be saved? 

By Natasha Meten

Sistas Lets Talk

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The Guahan Doula Project delivers support as part of Primary Care Week

By KUAM NEWS

How Medi-Cal coverage could

impactdoula accessibility

By Tess Kazenoff

Long Beach Business Journal

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Free prenatal education sessions to help lower Guam's maternal, infant deaths

By

Pacific Daily News

Awareness, affordability remain challenges for parents of color to access doulas

By Tess Kazenoff

Long Beach Business Journal

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One Micronesia Show: April 2025 edition

By One Micronesia Show

Birthworkers of Color Collective

Trains 27 New Doulas and Strengthens

Equity in Perinatal Care

 

By LA2050

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A Year After Medi-Cal Allowed Doula Services, Uptick is Slow

Nearly a year after the benefit began, it’s clear that without more doulas enrolled in the program, not every family will get the care they are entitled to receive.

By  Mariana Dale and Elly Yu

What Do Doulas Do — And How Can I Find One In LA?

You're having a baby, and we are here to help, journalistically speaking.

By  Mariana Dale

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With inequalities faced by pregnant black women in white-dominated hospital settings, Long Beach based Birth Workers of Color Collective provide support and advocacy for POC

Braiding Birthwork, Racial Justice, and Smart Technology

The resulting project centered community birthworkers from the Birthworkers of Color Collective in imagining how smart technology could assist with birth outcome data collection and dissemination. Alexandrina Agloro and Stevie Merino will share lessons learned from the community research collaboration and how these findings can be applied toward policy and the future of accessible reproductive care.

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Ceremonies: Pregnancy, Birthwork, and Life Opening Reception

This exhibit captures the ways that pregnancy, birthwork, and life: including the acts of parenting, activism, spiritual practices, and existing in our bodies are ceremonies in themselves.

Create Your Birth Care Team

Before you have your baby, you’ll want to create your birth care team. These are the people who will help support you while you’re in labor and having your baby.

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