BMMA’s 2025 Fall Perinatal Learning Series – Available On Demand
BMMA’s 2025 Fall Perinatal Learning Series is available on demand. All six sessions covering Black maternal health, environmental justice, reproductive toxins, climate change, and birthwork are ready and waiting for practitioners, advocates, and stakeholders committed to advancing maternal and perinatal health equity.
This series was designed to deepen your knowledge, strengthen your practice, and expand your impact — through an environmental and reproductive justice lens, led by national experts and community-based leaders across the field.
Perinatal Learning Series
BMMA’s Perinatal Learning Series brings together practitioners, advocates, and stakeholders for virtual, CE-eligible training rooted in Black maternal health, reproductive justice, and the communities we serve. Each series is led by national experts and community-based leaders, designed to deepen knowledge, strengthen practice, and expand impact across the field.
We’ve hosted two series so far, and we’re just getting started. The Spring Perinatal Learning Series is on the way.
Fall 2024
Our 2024 series sold out fast — proof of the hunger for training that is culturally grounded and movement-aligned. Across four sessions, over 150 practitioners engaged live or on demand, exploring reproductive care advocacy, NICU and birth trauma, pregnancy and infant loss support, and disability justice in perinatal care. Each session offered tools and reflection to help providers show up for Black birthing people with greater purpose and capacity.
Sessions covered:
- Reproductive Care Access + Advocacy
- Navigating NICU/Birth Trauma Training
- Support for Pregnancy/Infant Loss Training
- Disability Justice in Perinatal Care Training
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Fall 2025
In 2025, BMMA expanded the series to six sessions and opened it to all practitioners, advocates, and stakeholders working to advance maternal, perinatal, and environmental health. The lens widened to include the intersections of environmental racism, climate change, and reproductive justice, with expert-led sessions grounded in both research and lived community experience. CE credits were available for most sessions, with pricing kept accessible because knowledge that shifts care should never be out of reach.
Sessions covered:
- Foundations of Black Maternal Health Practice: Reconnecting Environment, Culture, and Care
- Overexposed & Underprotected: Intersections of Reproductive and Environmental Justice
- Maternal Mental Health and Climate Change
- Reproductive Resilience: Understanding the Impact of Toxins on Maternal and Neonatal Health
- Rooted in Care: The Role of Birthworkers in Environmental and Reproductive Justice
- The Right to Know: Exposing Toxic Personal Care Products and Advancing Maternal Health Equity
Clinical Stakeholder Meeting
Perinatal clinicians are carrying far more than their clinical duties, and BMMA is creating space to address it. Our Clinical Stakeholder Meeting brings together clinicians across the full spectrum of perinatal, maternal, and reproductive health to share experiences, discuss wellness strategies, and build the community that sustains this work.
In October 2025, attendees gathered to name the joys and systemic challenges of providing perinatal care, and to envision a workforce that is genuinely supported. Through grounding exercises, music, and art, it is clear that spaces like this aren’t a luxury but essential.
Clinicians voiced a deep desire to keep gathering, strategizing, and identifying solutions that strengthen both the workforce and the communities they serve. BMMA’s Workforce Development team is committed to making that happen.
Black Maternal Health Incubator Hub (BMH-IH) — Pilot Program
In 2024, BMMA launched the Black Maternal Health Incubator Hub (BMH-IH), a nine-week pilot designed to build capacity within Black-led grassroots organizations working at the frontlines of perinatal care.
17 learners from 9 Black-led organizations joined the cohort, representing communities across 10 states. Over nine weeks, participants built critical skills, sharpened strategies, and developed bold ideas rooted in inclusive perinatal care. They engaged in focus groups, presented capstone projects, and formed connections that are laying the groundwork for a more unified Black perinatal workforce.
The program culminated in a final convening in Atlanta, and a presentation at the 2024 American Public Health Association (APHA) Expo that reached 50+ practitioners nationwide.
These organizations collectively serve thousands of Black, queer, disabled, and differently-abled people.
The Incubator Hub pilot was made possible by our seed funder, Pritzker Children’s Initiative.