(BPRW) Henry Ford Health, Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association Awarded $4.8 Million Grant | Black PR Wire, Inc.

(BPRW) Henry Ford Health, Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association Awarded $4.8 Million Grant Triple Crown Initiative: Babies Win, Families Thrive, Communities Transformed! (Black PR Wire) Detroit, MI—Henry Ford Health and Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association (BMBFA) have been named joint recipients of an up to four-year, $4.8 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH). Triple Crown: Babies Win. Families Thrive. Communities Transformed! will see the two organizations jointly champion improved Black maternal health outcomes through community-based outreach as part of the Healthy Families Community-based Perinatal Health Initiative (COPHI). Ten other organizations were also awarded the grant which totaled $13.2 million for the grant period’s first year. Designed with the vitality of Detroit in mind, Triple Crown: Babies Win. Families Thrive. Communities Transformed! is a multi-pronged project that will directly confront racial inequities in healthcare by supporting infrastructural change within policy, expanding access to community-based maternal support services (COMSS) including the training of 180 community-based doulas, community health workers and breastfeeding peer counselors, and by cultivating an integrative approach that connects Detroit’s healthcare systems with holistic birth resources for Black families. Through 2027, Triple Crown will build a unified network of advocacy...