Community Advisory Board member Dalvery Blackwell has been selected to receive the Birth & Breastfeeding Institute Award for Black Breastfeeding Leadership as part of the 2022 Black Breastfeeding Week Awards. Dalvery is the Co-founder and …
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8th Annual Lift Up Every Baby
What: African American Breastfeeding Network 8th Annual Lift Up Every Baby When: August 27, 2022 | 9:30am – 3:30pm CDT Where: Heritage Green at Westlawn Gardens 6201 W Custer Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53218 Cost: Free …
Call for abstracts: Black Maternal Health Conference and Training Institute
Submit an Abstract Proposal for #BMHC22 The Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Inc. (BMMA) is excited to share that we are officially accepting abstract submissions for our 2022 Black Maternal Health Conference and Training Institute (BMHC22),which will take …
AABN featured in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article about doulas
A recent article by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Even after a major push to lower Black infant mortality in Milwaukee, many babies aren’t living to see their first birthday,” discusses how doula services can support women …
AABN wins the HHS Innovation Challenge Award
UWPRC community partner, the African American Breastfeeding Network (AABN) is 1 of 79 programs in the US to receive the Reducing Disparities in Breastfeeding Innovation Challenge Award by the U.S. Department of Health and Human …
Spatialized Intersectionality: Gendered and Racialized Residential Segregation and the Milwaukee Lead Crisis
In this recently published article, Dalvery Blackwell, Executive Director of UWPRC community partner African American Breastfeeding Network (AABN), and her colleague introduce the term spatialized intersectionality to connote interlocking, geographically embedded forms of social identity marginalization. …
Survey: Black Fathers, Equal Partners (AABN)
The purpose of this research initiative is to learn about experiences and support needs across the transition to fatherhood, and Black mothers’ perceptions of the support that would benefit fathers and strengthen their capacity as …