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Ten years ago, the Journal Sentinel revealed stunning disparities in birth outcomes in Milwaukee. Newer statistics show little improvement.

These groups took on new roles and found new ways to connect with their clients during a trying time.

All 24 of Planned Parenthood’s health centers in Wisconsin stayed open from the onset of the pandemic last March. “We made a mission-decision to serve as many people as we (could) as long as we were safe,” said Tanya Atkinson, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s president and chief executive officer. Lockdowns led to an initial decline in foot traffic, meaning that the organization had to find new ways to reach patients who come to  health centers for a wide variety of services, including STD testing and cervical cancer screenings.  In April, 2020, Planned Parenthood launched a tel...

This year, dozens of mothers who wouldn’t otherwise have had access to a doula will receive personalized, hands-on help from doulas and other community health workers before, during, and after their babies are born. That’s thanks to NHRMC’s Community Health Worker-Doula Program, which officially began in January. The program, funded by a two-year grant, connects pregnant mothers to a community health worker and doulas who will help educate and serve as a support system for the moms during their pregnancies and for up to a year after they give birth. The program will primarily serve Blac...

The Fund for Women and Girls awards more than $250,000 to local nonprofits The fund hosted its annual meeting virtually this month, its theme Lifting Each Other Up: A Celebration of Women and Philanthropy. Fund members and guests celebrated the work accomplished by multi-year grantee partners, and announced their 2020 grant awards and learned from two distinguished community leaders about how to address the needs in the community. “The Fund for Women and Girls believes we can lift each other up by listening to the voices of those living in poverty, educating ourselves about critical issues...