Umoja Nia
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to provide educational awareness through evidence-based peer support services to those seeking assistance with maternal health decisions otherwise deterred due to environmental and social determinants of health with the use of doulas and community focused childbirth educators. Our vision is to create, engage, and promote a cohort of multicultural, professionally ,diversely trained maternal health birth workers including but not limited to community health workers, doulas, birth assistants, midwives to promote and activate community-level maternal care to those in need, especially those members of vulnerable populations, disadvantaged teen Mothers, low resource, and low-income families outside of regular routine services that overlook their emotional and psychological well-being. Reproductive justice is a cornerstone of our framework to dismantle those negative determinants and biases that continually manifest themselves in poor birth outcomes and mental health issues without safe resources. One of those issues is poor/negligent referral relationships with culturally relevant and sensitive mental health therapists, poor/negligent life skills trainings, little or no proper maternal health education, advocacy or support within a systematic institution that overrides the needs of patients over profitization, lack of resource connections such as insurance navigation, contraceptive education, herbal nutrition.