Urban Perinatal Education Center

The mission of Urban Perinatal Education is to create a space for perinatal equity through three lenses: culturally congruent care and community, supporting equity in care, and building a workforce for change. Our focus is to create a safe space of perinatal care for those adversely affected by intentional, long-standing, systematic, and institutional adverse perinatal health outcomes among the Black and BIPOC community

Establish a perinatal care and wellness center that provides culturally relative, led perinatal health services, classes or programs for families on the journey to attain safe, healthy successful pregnancy and delivery.

Culturally Congruent Care and Community

Representation in health care matters and promotes health equity. Recent research suggest that Black provider based care for Black families can cut mortality rates

Supporting Equity in Care

Maternal Health care inequities and disparities remain a symptom of institutional and systematic racism, especially in maternal health. Postpartum studies suggest that extra support and care is necessary to reduce such poor outcomes

Building a Workforce for Change

We know that communities empowered are the drivers for impact. This is more than recruitment but sustainability of both the community and its workforce race based equity pay is paramount to establishing justice.