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Black Maternal Health

A4 - Birth Justice IS Social Justice: The Role of Social Workers in Black Maternal Health Care & Research (CE Offered)

Sunday, April 14, 2024
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM PT
Location: Junior Ballroom 1, 2
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This workshop session aims to identify ways social workers can combat the Black maternal health crisis in healthcare delivery and shape health disparities research. Through the presentation of a severe maternal morbidity case study, overview of the significance of the issue, and a critical analysis of the historical roles social workers have contributed to racial inequities in maternal health care and outcomes, innovative strategies that center lived experience, promote interdisciplinary collaborations, and are based in lessons learned from community-based organizations, doula care, midwifery, and Afrocentric social work will be identified and evaluated in their ability to interrupt implicit bias, challenge institutional racism, and counter racially-biased research.