The California Birth Equity Connect

The California Birth Equity Connect (CA Birth Connect) is an informational platform intended to support anyone working to improve maternal health outcomes in California. We focus on inequities affecting Black families while welcoming collaboration across communities.

Unlike other data platforms that elevate quantitative data about pregnancy and birth, we created CA Birth Connect to support advocates, policymakers, philanthropy, researchers, governmental bodies, and others who make informed programmatic, policy, and funding decisions. Because we recognize that California state data indicate that Black women experience disproportionately high maternal mortality, we have designed CA Birth Connect to help build stronger, more intentional collaborations, increase the collective impact of the birth justice movement, and support increased infrastructure where it is needed across state. CA Birth Connect can help clarify key topics such as:

Geographic reach: Where are the organizations located across the state that contribute to the birth justice movement? Where can the movement have greater reach?

Strategic Approaches:  How do different organizations approach their work in birth equity? What are their most impactful methods? Do they aim to contribute to evidence-based policy change?

Policy Successes and Opportunities: What legislation has been proposed or passed that impacts birth equity? What is missing? What more is needed? 

For further analysis download our State of Black Birth Equity in California 2025 Report