Learning Series
AIM CCI partnered with subject matter experts to develop online learning series that support key concepts found in our Community Care maternal safety bundles. These courses are self-guided modules to further a learner’s awareness, skills, and knowledge. The AIM CCI learning series are accredited by the American Public Health Association (APHA) and each course offers continuing education credits for various disciplines including physicians (CME), nurses (CNE), certified health education specialists (CHES), certified in public health (CPH), and other public health professionals.
Racial Equity Learning Series (RELS)
This FREE 7 module learning series is an evidence-informed program to reduce inequitable clinical practices that are contributing to poor maternal outcomes. Topics in the modules include but are not limited to the acknowledgement and acceptance of racism, institutional transformation, personal, and systemic change. After completion, the learner can earn a total of 10 Continuing Education Credits (CEC).
Planning for Pregnancy and Beyond (P4P)
This is a FREE learning series to guide pre-pregnancy and interpregnancy planning and patient education (P4P). The course can be completed as a series, or individual lessons. Course topics range from reproductive anatomy and self-care to pregnancy complications and loss. The learner can earn 8 Continuing Education Credits (CEC) for completing the entire series.
Mental Health and Wellbeing for Mothers
This FREE learning module is designed for professionals to provide information on how stress and depression affect health, especially during the time of pregnancy and post-partum period. It also includes materials on ways to manage stress and receive care for depression. After completion, the learner can earn a total of 1.5 Continuing Education Credits (CEC).
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence to Support Participant and Staff Safety and Enhance Outcomes in Maternal Health
This FREE 7 module professional learning series can be utilized by an array of outpatient and social services professionals, both frontline staff and supervisors, to better understand and respond to the needs of women/birthing persons experiencing IPV during pregnancy and beyond. After completion, the learner can earn up to 7.5 Continuing Education Credits (CEC).
Maternal Monologues for Community Conversations and Action
Maternal Monologues are community presentations of stories by women/birthing persons, their partners, and supporters along the journey of birthing and maternal health. These stories are based on real experiences, and designed to serve as a tool for communities to tell their own stories for healing, raising awareness, and mobilizing for change.
Maternal Monologues at Xavier University of Louisiana
NHSA AIM CCI in partnership with Xavier University of Louisiana hosted “Maternal Monologues” as a kick-off event for Black Maternal Health Week on April 11th in New Orleans. The event was co-sponsored by Xavier University’s Department of Public Health Sciences and their Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities. The event featured monologues shared by mothers from the Xavier community as well as the greater New Orleans community, bringing attention to both the challenges and joys experienced by Black mothers and birthing people. Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, Medical Director of the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative and Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review pre-recorded a video address highlighting the known research and statistics regarding the unique risks for Black mothers and birthing persons.
The event was successful in bringing the campus community and New Orleans community together to raise awareness of the local maternal health crisis, discuss potential solutions and opportunities for collaboration, and plan for continued action.
Download the Maternal Monologues Toolkit
The way that each community presents its Maternal Monologues may look different from place to place. They can be in-person or virtual. You can be as creative as you’d like in your production. This toolkit is designed to provide a guide for getting started.
Please complete the form below to download your copy of the Maternal Monologues Toolkit.
Maternal Monologues has a new look but has the same resources to help your community plan events to discuss the maternal health journey. If you have the previous version of the toolkit and would like to request permission to use the cover artwork, which is subject to copyright and is not in the public domain, please contact us at aimcci@nationalhealthystart.org
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Featured Webinar
Innovation in Action: Exploring AIM CCI’s Approach to Address Maternal Safety and Wellness Webinar
Learn about the evolution of AIM CCI and the experience of extending AIM bundles to community settings. This webinar will also include discussion of AIM CCI’s postpartum work and support of 4th trimester initiative Presented by: Deborah Frazier, NHSA CEO and AIM CCI Principal Investigator Haywood Brown, MD, NHSA Medical Advisor and AIM CCI Co-PI Nikki St. Germain, MHA, Senior Manager of Community Health Programs at Greater Newark Health Care Coalition
Past Webinars
This webinar will focus on recognizing the importance of why addressing chronic conditions during pregnancy and the postpartum period is critical to improving maternal health outcomes. This presentation is led by Susan Kendig, JD, WHNP-BC, FAANP and Saanie Sulley, MD,PhD, MBA with the AIM CCI project.
This webinar will explore how implementing best practices from the AIM CCI Maternal Safety Bundle can help communities address this important issue to support safety planning for expectant and new moms. This presentation will be led by Rebecca Levenson, MA ; Rebecca Levenson Consulting, Former Senior Policy Analyst for FUTURES Without Violence and Ashley Calderone DNP, RN,CLC, IBCLC, C-ONQS, who is the Clinical Implementation Manager with the AIM CCI project.
Picking up on their conversation exploring the intersection of mental health and maternal health, and the challenges that women and birthing people of color encounter in this space due to racism, NHSA-AIM CCI content experts Fleda Mask Jackson, PhD, President of Majaica, LLC and AIM-CCI subject matter expert Deidre McDaniel, PhD (c), MSW, LCSW President & Founder of Health Equity Resources and Strategies, LLC (H.E.R.S.) recently sat down for part 2 of this critical discussion, which focuses on the importance of using a contextualized approach within maternal mental health to address stress, depression, and anxiety among communities of color.
NHSA-AIM CCI hosted this critical discussion on the intersection of mental health and maternal health, and the challenges that women and birthing people of color encounter in this space due to racism.
This conversation features NHSA-AIM CCI content experts: Fleda Mask Jackson, PhD, President of Majaica, LLC, a national research firm/ think tank, and leader of Save 100 Babies ©, and AIM-CCI subject matter expert Deidre McDaniel, PhD (c), MSW, LCSW President & Founder of Health Equity Resources and Strategies, LLC (H.E.R.S.) and Clinical-Community Bundle Integration Specialist with the AIM-CCI project.
