Observed arrival · 2026-10-21
Rebuilding the Village Around Birth
An 80-week community-based birth-equity intervention designed to support Black women and families before, during, and after pregnancy.
- For
- Black women and families navigating pregnancy and postpartum
- Worth noticing
- The page traces the intervention’s origin to an invitation from the Cleveland Foundation and frames community connection as a gap in existing support.
Field notes
The account grounds its rationale in Ohio and Cleveland infant-mortality figures from 2013–2015, including 2014 rates of 14.3 per 1,000 for Black infants statewide and 14.4 in Cuyahoga County. It traces the idea to an invitation from the Cleveland Foundation and identifies gaps in community connection, continuous support, birth support, and whole-person help. These are presented as the intervention’s rationale; the excerpt does not establish current operations or outcomes.
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