REPORT DESIGN
The Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (IWES) Maternal & Child Health (MCH) program works to improve maternal and infant mortality and morbidity through thoughtful collaborations with government, health and financial systems, and community-based organizations with an aim to reduce systemic and individual inequity. Our goal is to implement policy changes and/or birth equity solutions in partnership with community and health care providers to benefit women in New Orleans before, during and after childbirth. Our current strategies include: conducting both qualitative and quantitative research; promoting MCH awareness on social media; co-designing trainings for perinatal community health workers and healthcare institutions; and effecting MCH- focused policies at both the local and state levels.
Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) engaged the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies (IWES) to collaborate with nine HIP grantee organizations to collectively learn about the healing justice efforts taking place within their migrant service provision landscape and contribute to a deeper understanding of how one defines healing justice, and the healing needs of migrants as well as service providers. Healing & Migration: A Learning Journey was an effort to center the voices and experiences of communities that have been oppressed by harmful systems, institutions, and policies.
Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) summary report in Spanish.
A principios de 2022, el programa de Migración y Desplazamiento Forzado de Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) contrató al Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies (IWES) para colaborar con nueve donatarias de HIP en servicios que abarcaban salud, vivienda, idioma, asuntos jurídicos, networking e iniciativas de políticas e incidencia: Al Otro Lado, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP), Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO), Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim, Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, Kino Border Initiative y Justice in Motion. El objetivo de dicha colaboración era conocer de forma colectiva las acciones de justicia de sanación que se estaban llevando a cabo dentro del panorama de la prestación de servicios a personas migrantes y contribuir a una comprensión más profunda de la definición de la justicia de sanación y de las necesidades de sanación tanto de las personas migrantes como de quienes brindan servicios.