Project updates, partner profiles, and insights from our team.
CHAP Joins Colleagues at Healthy Start’s Annual Grantee Meeting
This week, CHAP joined organizations and colleagues from across the country for Healthy Start’s Annual All-Grantee Meeting...
Raquel Mazon Jeffers Named New Jersey Deputy Commissioner for Population Health
Raquel Mazon Jeffers Named New Jersey Deputy Commissioner for Population Health. For the past five years, Raquel Mazon Jeffers has helped steer our work with a uniquely powerful blend of philanthropic and public sector expertise…
Bringing Policymaking to Life: SPIA 2025-2026
Wendy McWeeny and Raquel Mazon Jeffers were delighted to return to Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs this year as part of the teaching team for the school’s Policy and Advocacy Clinic. This is the third year the CHAP Co-Directors have helped bring policymaking to life as part of the university’s SPIA in New Jersey faculty.
State of Birth Equity: Impact Analysis
This report documents meaningful progress towards birth equity made by funders and partners in nine states and what we’ve learned in the process about the value of collaboration.
Partner Spotlight: Josselyn Taylor, Director of Community Strategies, Cradle Cincinnati & Queens Village
A mutual aid fund for birth workers in Ohio will launch this fall. CHAP is proud to support this new endeavor, led by Cradle Cincinnati. As our partner Josselyn Taylor, Community Engagement Strategist, puts it: “We can’t keep asking women to sacrifice themselves for the good of the community with little support. If we want them to continue to be able to do that, they need support as well.”
Partner Spotlight: Ausannette García-Goyette, Senior Program Officer, Irving Harris Foundation
We are thrilled to feature Ausannette García-Goyette, Senior Program Officer at the Irving Harris Foundation and a key leader in Illinois’ State Exchange for Maternal Health initiatives, in our latest Partner Spotlight.
2024 State Exchange: Key Takeaways and Next Steps
This new report from the State Exchange team distills field-led insights, innovations, and practices shaping maternal health impact across 47 states and D.C.
Navigating The Obstacles: The Complex Journey of Perinatal Care in New Jersey
This new brief looks at how insurance shapes patient experience with recommendations for ensuring New Jerseyans receive quality care across their perinatal journeys.
State Exchange Convening: Reflections
Funders from nearly all 50 states met in Washington, DC, to advance state-level efforts to improve birth outcomes during the 2024 State of Birth Equity (SOBE) State Exchange Convening.
Partner Spotlight: Cecile Edwards, NJBEFA Executive Director
Our latest Partner Spotlight features Cecile Edwards, Executive Director of the New Jersey Birth Equity Funders Alliance (NJBEFA). Co-founded by CHAP in 2021, NJBEFA focuses on amplifying the voices of birth equity leaders, investing in community-based organizations, and building the infrastructure for cross-sector partnerships.
Jhenielle Reynolds Testifies Before NJ Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee
On Thursday, September 19th, CHAP Program Manager Jhenielle Reynolds joined a group of birth equity advocates to testify before the New Jersey Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee regarding the inequities faced by individuals who choose to give birth outside hospital settings.
Alma: Moms Supporting Moms from Colorado to New Jersey
CHAP’s partnership with the Alma program began in 2022. Alma, which recently expanded to New Jersey, uses a peer-to-peer approach to maternal mental health, uplifting the lived experiences of birthing people and parents of color.
Inaugural State Exchange Convening to Take Place in October
CHAP is pleased to be part of the planning committee for the inaugural Birth Equity State Exchange Convening. The convening is a funder-only event dedicated to advancing birth outcomes at the state-level and will be held from October 27-29 in Washington, DC.
CHAP + Princeton: Advancing Birth Equity
CHAP is introducing students at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs to the maternal mortality crisis in New Jersey. In addition to studying the conditions surrounding the state’s historically poor maternal health outcomes, students are exploring the policy and practice of the birth equity movement.
AMCHP: Sharing Strategies for State-Level Partnerships
CHAP Co-Directors Raquel Mazon Jeffers and Wendy McWeeny hosted a conversation on improving maternal and child health outcomes through partnership during the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) annual conference.