Programs

  • Speak! Move! Change! Initiative

    Speak! Move! Change! - Speak! Move! Change! is a virtual series that is offered annually to participants throughout the United States and abroad, co-hosted and co-produced by the three BIPOC and/or women-led organizations, committed to reproductive justice, birth equity and the amerlioration of black maternal/infant morbidity and mortality in the US and abroad; Dr Shalon's Maternal Action Project (Dr. Shalon's MAP), The Tatia Oden French Memorial Foundation and The ARIAH Foundation.The SMC series invites the community at large, individuals and families with lived experience, reproductive activists, advocates, academics, midwives, doulas, etc., to gather in virtual space to learn, grow, heal, and ACT in response to the black maternal health crisis. The virtual series includes ceremony, ritual, visual and performinmg arts, community dialogue, panel discussions and a call to action.National Postpartum Awareness Week - The National Postpartum Awareness Week (PAW) Campaign is a nation wide convening that is being hosted by the ARIAH Foundation, Dr. Shalon's MAP & The Tatia Oden French Foundation, in partnership with stakeholders a cross the United States. The vision for PAW is to restore light, life and dignity to the birthing and postpartum experiencesof BIPOC. The three organizations have been organizing, co-leading and co-creating the development of a national campaign that will take place from Sunday, May 7, 2023 to Saturday May 13,2023. The collective members represent 20 states from across the country and are committed to amplifying the needs and the voices of BIPOC folx so that "Birthing while Black" in the US will no longer be a death sentence. The goal of the campaign is to invite individuals, groups, organizations and institutions from across the country and abroad to engage in activities that will promote education, dialogue, innovations and interventions to improve postpartum birthing outcomes for BIPOC Communities.The Mother Wite Conference - The Mother Wit Conference promotes the free exchange of stories and ideas through educational workshops, performance art and presentations by the most brilliant academics, healers, and practitioners in the reporductive, psychological, and holistic health fields.The Mother Wit Conference seeks to offer an inclusive, save, and engaging space for men and women of all ages, o examine and give voice to the reproductive experiences that are often left and unspoken and unaddressed. These experiences include, but are not limities to, infertility, miscarriage, premature birth, abortion, and postpartum deprecission/psychosis. The conference examines how they affect the individuals mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. The conference culminates with our audience members' stories being brought to life on stage using a powerful improvisational theater form called "Playback Theater"Conference attendees will be invited to co-operatively, compassionately and collectively share and explore how women and men navigate the mental, emotional and spiritual impact of infertility, pregnancy, infant loss and postpartum depression/psychosis.The Luxor Men's Collective for BIPOC Men - This collective provides a space for BIPOC men of all ages to address their experience of trauma, grief and loss associated with infertility, miscarriage, maternal/infant morbidity and mortality. It will also create a platform for BIPOC men to talk about the intersecting roles and challenges that they navigate in their intimate partnerships and in their role as fathers or fathers-to-be.Participants will receive information, support, interventions and referrals, as well as, opportunities to be in community as they process their thoughts, emotions and personal experiences. The sessions will be the catalyst for participants to build their capacity to identify, process and cope with their individual and collective trauma and to share their experiences, hope and strength within a community of like-minded peers. Omari Maynard will co-facilitiate the series with men from various backgrounds and professional disciplines so that a holistic learning and healing space can be co-created. The group will include the use of art experiential and therapeutic activities to to activate healing.The "In Her Honor" Exhibit & Tour for Lost Mothers/Birthing People - Omari Maynard, is a visual artist, teacher and innovator, who chose to channel his pain into power by creatinga series of portraits of his life partner, Shamony Makeba Gibson, and 22 other mothers who passed away due to maternal mortality. He name the series "In Her Honor", as a tribute to those mothers and shine a light on the inequities of the reproductive healthcare system and the maternal mortality epidemic in America. BIPOC women in the United States are 3 times more likely to die during childbirth than their white counterparts with the same symptons. BIPOC pregnant women living in New York City are 8 times more likely to die. Omari's goal is to use his talents as an artist to humanize these horrific statistics and create spaces in which community members can share their birthing stories for the purpose of healing and catharsis. The "In Her Honor" series is a tribute to all the women that made the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE to bring black and brown babies into the world. All the women depicted in the series are mothers, sisters, aunts, cosuins, partners, friend and contributors. They have left behind communities of people that love them and the portraits have been created to provide a pathway for healing and an opportunity for the women who have been lost to conitnue to communicate and inspire others from the spiritual realm.The "In Her Honor" Exhibit & Tour for Lost Mothers/Birthing People - Omari Maynard, is a visual artist, teacher and innovator, who chose to channel his pain into power by creatinga series of portraits of his life partner, Shamony Makeba Gibson, and 22 other mothers who passed away due to maternal mortality. He name the series "In Her Honor", as a tribute to those mothers and shine a light on the inequities of the reproductive healthcare system and the maternal mortality epidemic in America. BIPOC women in the United States are 3 times more likely to die during childbirth than their white counterparts with the same symptons. BIPOC pregnant women living in New York City are 8 times more likely to die. Omari's goal is to use his talents as an artist to humanize these horrific statistics and create spaces in which community members can share their birthing stories for the purpose of healing and catharsis. The "In Her Honor" series is a tribute to all the women that made the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE to bring black and brown babies into the world. All the women depicted in the series are mothers, sisters, aunts, cosuins, partners, friend and contributors. They have left behind communities of people that love them and the portraits have been created to provide a pathway for healing and an opportunity for the women who have been lost to conitnue to communicate and inspire others from the spiritual realm.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
    –
    $125.9K

  • Program 1 [2024]

    Speak! Move! Change! - Speak! Move! Change! is a virtual series that is offered annually to participants throughout the United States and abroad, co-hosted and co-produced by the three BIPOC and/or women-led organizations, committed to reproductive justice, birth equity and the amerlioration of black maternal/infant morbidity and mortality in the US and abroad; Dr Shalon's Maternal Action Project (Dr. Shalon's MAP), The Tatia Oden French Memorial Foundation and The ARIAH Foundation.The SMC series invites the community at large, individuals and families with lived experience, reproductive activists, advocates, academics, midwives, doulas, etc., to gather in virtual space to learn, grow, heal, and ACT in response to the black maternal health crisis. The virtual series includes ceremony, ritual, visual and performinmg arts, community dialogue, panel discussions and a call to action.National Postpartum Awareness Week - The National Postpartum Awareness Week (PAW) Campaign is a nation wide convening that is being hosted by the ARIAH Foundation, Dr. Shalon's MAP & The Tatia Oden French Foundation, in partnership with stakeholders a cross the United States. The vision for PAW is to restore light, life and dignity to the birthing and postpartum experiencesof BIPOC. The three organizations have been organizing, co-leading and co-creating the development of a national campaign that will take place from Sunday, May 5, 2024 to Saturday May 11,2024. The collective members represent 20 states from across the country and are committed to amplifying the needs and the voices of BIPOC folx so that "Birthing while Black" in the US will no longer be a death sentence. The goal of the campaign is to invite individuals, groups, organizations and institutions from across the country and abroad to engage in activities that will promote education, dialogue, innovations and interventions to improve postpartum birthing outcomes for BIPOC Communities.The Mother Wite Conference - The Mother Wit Conference promotes the free exchange of stories and ideas through educational workshops, performance art and presentations by the most brilliant academics, healers, and practitioners in the reporductive, psychological, and holistic health fields.The Mother Wit Conference seeks to offer an inclusive, save, and engaging space for men and women of all ages, o examine and give voice to the reproductive experiences that are often left and unspoken and unaddressed. These experiences include, but are not limities to, infertility, miscarriage, premature birth, abortion, and postpartum deprecission/psychosis. The conference examines how they affect the individuals mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. The conference culminates with our audience members' stories being brought to life on stage using a powerful improvisational theater form called "Playback Theater"Conference attendees will be invited to co-operatively, compassionately and collectively share and explore how women and men navigate the mental, emotional and spiritual impact of infertility, pregnancy, infant loss and postpartum depression/psychosis.The Luxor Men's Collective for BIPOC Men - This collective provides a space for BIPOC men of all ages to address their experience of trauma, grief and loss associated with infertility, miscarriage, maternal/infant morbidity and mortality. It will also create a platform for BIPOC men to talk about the intersecting roles and challenges that they navigate in their intimate partnerships and in their role as fathers or fathers-to-be.Participants will receive information, support, interventions and referrals, as well as, opportunities to be in community as they process their thoughts, emotions and personal experiences. The sessions will be the catalyst for participants to build their capacity to identify, process and cope with their individual and collective trauma and to share their experiences, hope and strength within a community of like-minded peers. Omari Maynard will co-facilitiate the series with men from various backgrounds and professional disciplines so that a holistic learning and healing space can be co-created. The group will include the use of art experiential and therapeutic activities to to activate healing.The "In Her Honor" Exhibit & Tour for Lost Mothers/Birthing People - Omari Maynard, is a visual artist, teacher and innovator, who chose to channel his pain into power by creating a series of portraits of his life partner, Shamony Makeba Gibson, and 22 other mothers who passed away due to maternal mortality. He named the series "In Her Honor", as a tribute to those mothers and shine a light on the inequities of the reproductive healthcare system and the maternal mortality epidemic in America. BIPOC women in the United States are 3 times more likely to die during childbirth than their white counterparts with the same symptons. BIPOC pregnant women living in New York City are 8 times more likely to die. Omari's goal is to use his talents as an artist to humanize these horrific statistics and create spaces in which community members can share their birthing stories for the purpose of healing and catharsis. The "In Her Honor" series is a tribute to all the women that made the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE to bring black and brown babies into the world. All the women depicted in the series are mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, partners, friends and contributors. They have left behind communities of people that love them and the portraits have been created to provide a pathway for healing and an opportunity for the women who have been lost to conitnue to communicate and inspire others from the spiritual realm.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
    –
    $120.4K