This resource is meant to provide guidance on navigating perinatal support that respects cultural traditions and needs. The toolkit helps families understand available care options and find providers who honor their cultural backgrounds. By offering knowledge on culturally competent care, it aims to enhance your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience, ensuring you feel supported and respected. Cultural competence involves healthcare providers understanding and working effectively with diverse cultural perspectives, respecting values, beliefs, and traditions to improve health outcomes and foster trust.

This resource is meant to provide guidance for families on how to plan for pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Due to the current public health emergency, navigating our health system may be difficult at this time. Resources within this toolkit include how to prepare for delivery, postpartum & infant health information, and how to apply for public benefits.

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This toolkit is meant to provide doulas with the tools needed to provide virtual doula services to clients. Given that the current recommendations suggest that we practice social distancing, and that hospitals are limiting the number of individuals who may be present at birth during this pandemic, virtual doula services are a way to provide support and guidance to families without jeopardizing health and safety.

The toolkit is a short, accessible document listing community resources and information on how to improve health outcomes for Black infants in Georgia.

The purpose of this toolkit is to fill the gaps in prenatal education identified by the report related to cesarean sections, oral health, health insurance literacy, HIV & STI prevention, postpartum care, and cultural competency. As identified in our 2019 report, prenatal educators may not feel comfortable or lack the information needed to discuss these topics with clients.