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SHARE YOUR
BLACK MATERNAL HEALTHCARE STORY
Dr. Phyllis N. Green
Supervisor of the First Episcopal District
As Salvation and Social Justice continues to honor Black Mothers through our advocacy work, we are excited to lift up this new collaborative effort with the First Episcopal District's Women’s Missionary Society of the AME Church. To learn more, please watch this powerful video.
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Across the First Episcopal District, the Women’s Missionary Society, spouses, First Ladies, women clergy, and other ministries are coming together to develop a Black Maternal Health Ministry Toolkit—rooted in our faith, shaped by our history, and centered on the voices and lived experiences of Black women. This Toolkit will equip our churches and ministries to educate, support, and advocate for Black mothers and families.
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In the meantime, the Women’s Missionary Society is inviting the community to help by sharing their stories. Whether as a mother, grandmother, birth worker, spouse, or someone who has walked alongside women through pregnancy and birth—every story matters. These testimonies will help shape ministry, strengthen advocacy, and help save lives.
PULPIT TOOLKIT
BLACK IN OUR HANDS
Salvation and Social Justice seeks to liberate public policy theologically by modeling the hope and resiliency of Black faith; where historically marginalized people move from lament to liberation by envisioning and creating their own community led solutions to a structurally racist society. Those solutions are steeped in safety, equity, and accountability. Those solutions include but are not limited to establishing Black maternal health centers run by Black women for Black women throughout the state, adopting policy that would provide general income support for Black mothers, as well as significant investments in targeted workforce development and support of Black women in midwifery programs as a response to the maternal health disparities that exist in the state.
