• Invest in Marginalized Communities: Provide resources for comprehensive prenatal and postpartum support for Black birthing people and their offspring.
• Coordinate Community-based Health & Social Care: Partner with local organizations to provide essential health and social care services.
• Center Black women and their infants in all actions and interventions: Focus on the needs of Black women and their infants to create a more equitable health system.
• Implement the recommendations of the Maternal Mortality Review Committee: Use the insights from this committee to guide our work and make a real impact.

Introducing the Maternal Home Collaborative Model

Our pilot program, the Maternal Home Collaborative Model, will launch in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, and East Flatbush — areas that have a majority of Black and Medicaid birthing population. The program consists of four key pillars:

• Maternal medical homes that coordinate pregnancy, behavioral health, chronic, and social needs.
• Neighborhood stress-free zones p strengthen peer and material support networks and self-advocacy in areas related to maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity risk factors.
• Pregnancy and infant support staff that bridge healthcare and community health, with patients being able to connect to these through pregnancy homes and/or stress-free-zones.
• Mental health and substance use services.