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Unlock all six (6) courses in the Fall25 E-Learning Series with a 15% discounted bundle price! This option gives you full access to every course, so you can maximize your learning and professional development. Even if you’re unable to attend a live session, don’t worry — all courses include access to the recordings, allowing you to learn at your own pace, on your own schedule
Take advantage of this bundle to experience the full series, gain comprehensive insights, and engage with critical content across all six sessions.
On Friday, November 7th at 3PM EST, Angela D. Aina’s session will establish a foundational understanding of Black Maternal Health Practice as a distinctive branch of maternal and child health work. This practice recognizes how people of African descent have long understood childbearing, maternity care, and reproductive health as inseparable from our connection to the land, water, air, food, and the natural and spiritual world—our ecosystem. Join us as we kick off BMMA’s 2025 Fall Perinatal Learning Series and ground together in holistic, justice-centered care.
This session does not include a technical assistance session.
Objectives:
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Describe Black Maternal Health Practice as a distinctive approach that integrates multiple conceptual frameworks with cultural practices and ecological knowledge.
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Explain how environmental racism and structural oppression are interconnected with maternal and infant health disparities, and why solutions must simultaneously address both environmental conditions and honor traditional healing practices.
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Recognize how the topics throughout this Fall 2025 Perinatal Learning Series, such as reproductive toxins, climate and mental health, practitioner preparedness, and personal care products, are essential competencies in Black Maternal Health.
Featured with registration:
- 45-minute course
On Monday, November 10th at 1PM EST, Black women and birthing people are often overexposed to pollution and under protected from environmental harm. This session led by BWW-LA's Tianna Shaw Wakeman, explores how environmental racism and reproductive justice intersect. This session also includes an optional follow-up technical assistance session December 2nd.
Objectives:
- Understand the intersections between environmental and reproductive justice.
- Understand the movement histories for EJ and RJ.
- Gain a high level understanding of historical and present day examples of environmental racism
and reproductive injustice. - Provide foundation knowledge for themes that will arise throughout this e-learning series.
- Walk away with lessons to share with clients, community, colleagues, and family
Featured with registration:
- 2-hour course
- 1-hour technical assistance session
- Continuing Education Units
On Wednesday, November 12th at 2PM EST, this session will build on the capacity of birth workers and health professionals to understand and address the disproportionate impact of reproductive toxins on maternal, reproductive, and neonatal health. Young, Gifted and Green’s founder, LaTricea D. Adams will explore how environmental and reproductive justice intersect with birth work, and provide you with tools to advocate for healthier pregnancies and birth outcomes in Black communities.
- Participants will be able to define reproductive toxins and identify common sources of exposure in Black communities.
- Participants will be able to explain the pathways through which reproductive toxins impact reproductive health, maternal health, and neonatal health, with specific attention to disparities affecting Black individuals.
- Participants will be able to describe the intersection of environmental racism and reproductive health disparities.
- Participants will be able to identify strategies for reducing exposure to reproductive toxins at the individual, family, and community levels.
- Participants will be able to confidently communicate information about reproductive toxins to clients (community members) and advocate for policies that promote environmental and reproductive justice.
Featured with registration:
- 2-hour course
- Continuing Education Units
On Monday, November 17th at 1PM EST, Jade Sasser from University of CA, Riverside, will address the ways climate change impacts maternal mental health, from pre-pregnancy through postpartum. Presenting the current research and policy landscape, along with addressing the role of health workers in addressing this crucial challenge.
Objectives:
- Identify the ways increased wildfires, heat events, storms, and other extreme weather phenomena impact maternal mental health
- Examine the climate-focused policies and programs designed to support mental health among mothers and those interested in becoming pregnant
- Analyze the ways race and class shape differential maternal mental health experiences among climate-impacted communities
Featured with registration:
- 2-hour course
- Continuing Education Units
On Tuesday, November 18th at 12PM EST, this interactive session will center birthworkers as key advocates in the fight for environmental and reproductive justice. Through presentations, discussions, and community reflection, Woven's Zainab Jah and Nurturely's Aver Yakubu, will explore the intersections of climate change, maternal health, and birthwork. Featured topics include extreme heat education, disaster planning with doulas, and coalition-based initiatives like EnviroNatal Week that uplift community-driven climate justice. This session also includes an optional follow-up technical assistance session December 4th.
Objectives:
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Identify the unique role of birthworkers in advancing environmental and reproductive justice in their communities.
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Discuss strategies to uplift and support birthworkers as climate health advocates and first responders during environmental crises.
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Explore current models, tools, and initiatives integrating climate preparedness and response into birthwork.
Featured with registration:
- 2-hour course
- 1-hour technical assistance session
- Continuing Education Units
On Wednesday, November 19th at 12PM EST, this session led by Birthmark Doula Collective's Victoria Williams, uncovers the hidden dangers of toxic chemicals found in personal care products and their impact on maternal and perinatal health. Participants will explore how environmental and reproductive justice intersect with consumer rights, gaining tools to educate communities, advocate for safer policies, and protect maternal and child health. This session also includes an optional follow-up technical assistance session in early December.
Objectives:
- Identify common toxic chemicals and environmental hazards found in personal care products, particularly those disproportionately marketed to and used within BIPOC communities.
- Explain how exposure to reprotoxins and harmful substances impacts perinatal and maternal health outcomes.
- Examine the intersection of environmental justice, reproductive justice, and consumer rights in addressing toxic exposures.
- Apply knowledge of regulatory policies, advocacy strategies, and community-based solutions to protect maternal and child health.
- Develop practical approaches to educating clients, patients, and communities on safe product choices and the "Right to Know."
Featured with registration:
- 2-hour course
- 1-hour technical assistance session
- Continuing Education Units