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The Healing Kin™
Black Family Health Program
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the Purpose
Our programs aims to improve health outcomes among the Black people pregnant and/or parenting through equitable and culturally rooted programming and resources.
Who We Serve
For Black women and birthing people are the only ethnicity where income, education level, zip code, or professional title do not matter when it comes to birth outcomes. So, we focus exclusively on empowering and the healing of Black/African American families (including fathers, partners, and kinship caregivers) during pregnancy and continuing after their little is eartside.
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Black babies are more than twice as likely as white babies to die before their first birthdays.
Black women and birth people at all income levels and social statuses experience worse birth outcomes.
Black babies have higher rates of infant mortality, low birth weight, and prematurity than any other ethnic group.
The infant mortality rate of 7.8 for Black mothers in King County, Washington State surpasses the overall rate in Louisiana, which ranked second in the U.S.
Black women and birthing people are much more likely than white women and birthing people to die of pregnancy related complications.
OUR GOAL
To improve Black infant and maternal health as well as decrease health inequities in infant and maternal mortality rates.
OUTCOMES
Culture is data, and Black culture is unequivocal data. It lives in all of us and passed on through generations. And it's a powerful science to focus on.
WE SERVE
BLACK families (with a Black birthing person), who are 16 years or older, pregnant or up to 6 months postpartum at the time of enrollment
FUNDING
This program is made possible and is able to be at no-cost to participants through grant funding at the local, state, and individual philanthropic levels.
SERVICE DELIVERY
Services are free and provided by BLKBRY staff, Birthworkers, Mental Health Specialists, and other Black providers and specialists in life skills fields.
PROGRAM SERVICES
We focused on designing sessions rooted in community and cultural practices. Also, combining culturally concordant providers to share knowledge and skills.
Why We Focus on the Family
building confidence in yourself,
and to trust in your body.
At BLKBRY, we acknowledge the many forms of family structures. We recognize how non-"traditional" nuclear family structures can be ineligible to access programming and resources to support their needs and the care of a little one in their family. So, we wanted to make sure that whether a child is being raised by two parents, a single parent (birthing person or father/other parent), a kinship caregiver (grandparent, older sibling, or an extended family member), that they could receive the support they need.
Plus, we know that both parents and primary caregivers of a little encounter the same barriers, and have shared experiences and feelings... Just see the infographics below.
Next Cohort Enrollment Opening Soon
Will post and share on socials when next cohort application is open.