The new Expecting Father Group is designed specifically for Black soon-to-be fathers and provides education, support and navigation tools for the prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum and early parenting periods. 

This group runs for 5 (five) consecutive weeks. With the knowledge gained and community created in the group, expectant dads can best support their birthing partners, work to reduce stress, and prepare for baby and family bonding.

Expecting Father Group will kick off on November 16th, led by Davion Mauldin, MS (DPH Fatherhood Coordinator).

SESSION DATES: 

January 7 - February 4, 2025

The new Expecting Father Group is designed specifically for Black soon-to-be fathers and provides education, support and navigation tools for the prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum and early parenting periods. 

This group runs for 5 (five) consecutive weeks. With the knowledge gained and community created in the group, expectant dads can best support their birthing partners, work to reduce stress, and prepare for baby and family bonding.

Expecting Father Group will kick off on November 16th, led by Davion Mauldin, MS (DPH Fatherhood Coordinator).

SESSION DATES: 

January 7 - February 4, 2025

The new Expecting Father Group is designed specifically for Black soon-to-be fathers and provides education, support and navigation tools for the prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum and early parenting periods. 

This group runs for 5 (five) consecutive weeks. With the knowledge gained and community created in the group, expectant dads can best support their birthing partners, work to reduce stress, and prepare for baby and family bonding.

Expecting Father Group will kick off on November 16th, led by Davion Mauldin, MS (DPH Fatherhood Coordinator).

SESSION DATES: 

January 7 - February 4, 2025

Our peer support group Black Mamas Glowing© (BMG) was designed for Black Women/ birthing families by Black Women. We started BMG during COVID-19 as a response to the increased isolation we all faced.

This year i.D.R.E.A.M. for Racial Health Equity, a project of Community Partners partnered with Providence Health System to offer Black Mamas Glowing© to the Black pregnant/birthing community for FREE.

Our group is open to any pregnant or recently postpartum Black identifying person and their support people. This space was created to decrease isolation and build community. Your partner/family/doula is welcome to join us.

For more information visit idreamnow.org/black-mamas-glowing/ to learn more. To register for Black Mamas Glowing© email Ellen Branch | she,her(s) | [email protected]

Follow us on IG and FB @idreamnow

Our peer support group Black Mamas Glowing© (BMG) was designed for Black Women/ birthing families by Black Women. We started BMG during COVID-19 as a response to the increased isolation we all faced.

This year i.D.R.E.A.M. for Racial Health Equity, a project of Community Partners partnered with Providence Health System to offer Black Mamas Glowing© to the Black pregnant/birthing community for FREE.

Our group is open to any pregnant or recently postpartum Black identifying person and their support people. This space was created to decrease isolation and build community. Your partner/family/doula is welcome to join us.

For more information visit idreamnow.org/black-mamas-glowing/ to learn more. To register for Black Mamas Glowing© email Ellen Branch | she,her(s) | [email protected]

Follow us on IG and FB @idreamnow

Our peer support group Black Mamas Glowing© (BMG) was designed for Black Women/ birthing families by Black Women. We started BMG during COVID-19 as a response to the increased isolation we all faced.

This year i.D.R.E.A.M. for Racial Health Equity, a project of Community Partners partnered with Providence Health System to offer Black Mamas Glowing© to the Black pregnant/birthing community for FREE.

Our group is open to any pregnant or recently postpartum Black identifying person and their support people. This space was created to decrease isolation and build community. Your partner/family/doula is welcome to join us.

For more information visit idreamnow.org/black-mamas-glowing/ to learn more. To register for Black Mamas Glowing© email Ellen Branch | she,her(s) | [email protected]

Follow us on IG and FB @idreamnow

Our peer support group Black Mamas Glowing© (BMG) was designed for Black Women/ birthing families by Black Women. We started BMG during COVID-19 as a response to the increased isolation we all faced.

This year i.D.R.E.A.M. for Racial Health Equity, a project of Community Partners partnered with Providence Health System to offer Black Mamas Glowing© to the Black pregnant/birthing community for FREE.

Our group is open to any pregnant or recently postpartum Black identifying person and their support people. This space was created to decrease isolation and build community. Your partner/family/doula is welcome to join us.

For more information visit idreamnow.org/black-mamas-glowing/ to learn more. To register for Black Mamas Glowing© email Ellen Branch | she,her(s) | [email protected]

Follow us on IG and FB @idreamnow

The recent shocking Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v Wade has reverberated across our AAIMM network. Not only is the decision harmful and completely lacking in compassion, it is an afront to bodily agency and stands to inequitably impact Black women/birthing persons, who experience death and dangerous complications from pregnancy and childbirth at greater rates than other groups.

Below are statements from partners and advocates in the decision:

AAIMM Village Fund grantee, Parenting for Liberation (P4L) is an organization that supports Black parents in their efforts to heal from historical and ongoing trauma while interrupting intergenerational violence. Its broad definition of “parent” enables it to have a larger scope of influence in building resilient and joyful Black families within the community it serves. Launched in 2016 as a virtual platform to connect, inspire, and uplift Black parents as they navigate and negotiate raising Black children within the social and political context of the United States, P4L has grown into an anti-violence movement for Black parents. To date, P4L  has reached more than 20,000 people through audio podcasts and engaged nearly 30,000 individuals through social media, a self-published storybook workbook, blog posts, and opinion pieces, and recently released its inaugural book written by founder and executive director, Trina Greene Brown: Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children (Feminist Press, 2020).

Lydia O. Boyd is a Lactation Specialist who provides breast/chestfeeding support and education to expectant and current breast/chestfeeding families in Los Angeles County. In addition to supporting new parents during the early post-pregnancy period, she also provides care for the transition back to work or school after maternity leave, when weaning, and in the event of a pregnancy loss. Although she serves all families  regardless of race, the focus of her work is with Black-identifying families belonging to the African diaspora. 

Boyd’s 13 years of research and experience in counseling, coaching, and teaching other Black women throughout the breast/chestfeeding journey has made her especially qualified to speak to racial disparities within the birthing community and provides her with a unique perspective and position to support Black mothers, giving them a space where they feel centered and supported. “We are the mothers in the Black community,” Boyd stated, speaking of Black women. “We understand first-hand what we need.” Her work strives to provide a reconnection to the honor and pride of breast/chestfeeding that has been lost from years of oppression.