{"id":5768,"date":"2025-12-23T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=5768"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:59:02","slug":"black-maternal-health-conference-26","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/event\/black-maternal-health-conference-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Maternal Health Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"
Join us during Black Maternal Health Week 2026 for the Black Maternal Health Convention<\/a>, a powerful gathering dedicated to advancing maternal health through education, economic empowerment, and community-rooted care.<\/div>\n
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Hosted by the\u00a0Shades of Motherhood Network<\/strong>, this convention centers Black and Brown mothers, doulas, birth workers, and families while uplifting grassroots solutions to the maternal health crisis. Through workshops, dialogue, and collective action, we aim to educate communities, empower birth workers as essential professionals, and normalize culturally rooted, community-based care as a pathway to justice.<\/div>\n
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Throughout the convention, SOMN doulas will also present their individual passion projects, highlighting innovative, culturally rooted work happening right here in our community.<\/div>\n
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Guest Speaker<\/strong><\/div>\n
We are honored to welcome Lacrecia \u201cLu\u201d Hill as our featured guest speaker. Lacrecia is a Spokane-based leader and consultant whose work in authentic leadership and systems change continues to strengthen organizations and communities across the region.<\/div>\n
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    Educate:\u00a0Drive meaningful dialogue and system-level learning on Black maternal health, racism, and bias in healthcare.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Empower:\u00a0Economically empower doulas and birth workers as vital, paid professionals within maternal health systems.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Normalize:\u00a0Reclaim and elevate community-rooted wellness practices that support mothers, babies, and families.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Join us during Black Maternal Health Week 2026 for the Black Maternal Health Convention, a powerful gathering dedicated to advancing maternal health through education, economic empowerment, and community-rooted care. Hosted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2067,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[1522],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"event_city":"Spokane","event_state":"WA","event_venue":"Center for Clinical Research and Simulation (CCRS\/SCRS)","event_organizer":"Health Equity Circle","event_organizer_email":"","event_organizer_phone":"","event_organizer_website":"https:\/\/www.healthequitycircle.org\/spokane","event_website":"https:\/\/spokane-wsu.presence.io\/event\/black-maternal-health-conference","event_cost":"","event_excerpt":"Join us during Black Maternal Health Week 2026 for the Black Maternal Health Convention, a powerful gathering dedicated to advancing maternal health through education, economic empowerment, and community-rooted care.\n\n\n\nHosted by the\u00a0Shades of Motherhood Network, this convention centers Black and Brown mothers, doulas, birth workers, and families while uplifting grassroots solutions to the maternal health crisis. Through workshops, dialogue, and collective action, we aim to educate communities, empower birth workers as essential professionals, and normalize culturally rooted, community-based care as a pathway to justice.\n\n\n\nThroughout the convention, SOMN doulas will also present their individual passion projects, highlighting innovative, culturally rooted work happening right here in our community.\n\n\n\nGuest Speaker\nWe are honored to welcome Lacrecia \u201cLu\u201d Hill as our featured guest speaker. Lacrecia is a Spokane-based leader and consultant whose work in authentic leadership and systems change continues to strengthen organizations and communities across the region.\n\n\n\n\nFocus\n\n\nEducate:\u00a0Drive meaningful dialogue and system-level learning on Black maternal health, racism, and bias in healthcare.\n\n\nEmpower:\u00a0Economically empower doulas and birth workers as vital, paid professionals within maternal health systems.\n\n\nNormalize:\u00a0Reclaim and elevate community-rooted wellness practices that support mothers, babies, and families.","start_date":"2026-04-04 09:30:00","end_date":"2026-04-05 15:00:00","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/5768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/5768\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}