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Collective Motherhood: Improving the Parenthood Journey through Peer Support

This project piloted a peer-navigator service model where experienced families in a community connect with newer families to support them in the journey to parenthood. Our work is centered around the power of “collective motherhood,” a community-based approach to supporting families through the experience of having a new baby. It creates a network of support that is aligned around the shared goal of providing resources, assistance, and emotional support, so that all families have an opportunity to thrive. This pilot took place under the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Healthy Start program.
GROUP MEMBERS

Names in alphabetical order

Alexandra Bornkessel, Design Mentor

Alicia Siman, Operations Manager

Ana Velasco, Supervisor, Los Angeles

Daphney Dupervil, Program Manager

Dasia Anderson, Peer Navigator, Atlanta

Jireka Gurley, Peer Navigator, Atlanta

Kari Jay, Peer Navigator, Turtle Mountain

Keyyonna Sims, Peer Navigator, Pee Dee

Kimberly Grant, Supervisor, Pee Dee

Levyette Matthews, Supervisor, Baton Rouge

Lucie Pineda, Supervisor, Harlem

Markeitha Benton, Peer Navigator, Baton Rouge

Marquita Fields, Peer Navigator, Pee Dee

Maya Mechenbier, Team Lead

Myisha Morris, Peer Navigator, Baton Rouge

Nikki Daniels, Peer Navigator, Atlanta

Rahkia Williams, Supervisor, Atlanta

Rochelle Littleton, Supervisor, Family Road

Samantha Noor, Design Lead

Star Mcbain, Peer Navigator, Los Angeles

Suzette Smith, Supervisor, Pee Dee

Taneshia Washington-Rouse, Peer Navigator, Pee Dee

Tanisha Azure, Peer Navigator, Turtle Mountain

Tina LaFountain, Supervisor, Turtle Mountain

Whitney Jenkins, Peer Navigator, Atlanta

Whitney Robinson, Product Manager

WyKeisha Howe, Peer Navigator, Atlanta

Zahira Antunez, Peer Navigator, New York

Zymanique Gray, Peer Navigator, Pee Dee


Thank you to our 6 Healthy Start Pilot Sites

Greater Harlem Healthy Start at Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership, Harlem, New York

Pee Dee Healthy Start, Inc, Pee Dee, South Carolina

Center for Black Women’s Wellness, Atlanta Healthy Start Initiative, Atlanta, Georgia

Family Road Healthy Start, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

SHIELDS for Families Healthy Start, Los Angeles, California

Great Plains Tribal Leader’s Health Board Healthy Start, Turtle Mountain Reservation, Turtle Mountain, North Dakota