SEMPQIC EVENTS
The Black Maternal Health Equity Summit
A Family Affair Celebrating Fatherhood
This year’s summit is dedicated to advancing maternal and infant health in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. This event promises to be a pivotal gathering of healthcare professionals, industry experts, and community leaders. The focus for this year’s summit is A Family Affair Celebrating Fatherhood - a theme that will support initiatives aimed at strengthening black fatherhood.
Register in advance to attend. Tickets are $25
Tools for the Field
Launched in 2021, SEMPQIC began hosting Tools for the Field webinars to provide tools and resources for individuals and organizations working to improve maternal and infant health for the people and communities they serve. The tools and resources selected for the webinars were selected based on the expressed need from providers and practitioners connected to SEMPQIC.
Toxic: A Black Woman’s Story
SEMPQIC uses the short film Toxic: A Black Woman’s Story to educate on Black maternal mortality and how implicit bias impacts health outcomes for pregnant women and infants. Developed by First Year Cleveland, the film follows a day-in-the-life of Nina, a professional African American woman in her second trimester of pregnancy. SEMPQIC has screened this film at a variety of events to a myriad of audiences, providers, health systems, health insurance groups, social service organizations, community members, and others. The film continues to be available for use by SEMPQIC member organizations and is actively seeking opportunities to share the film with larger audiences. If you are interested contact SEMPQIC at info@sempqic.org.
Reading Circle
SEMPQIC started the Reading Circle in 2020 with its internal team as a way of learning about issues related to health equity together. A facilitated discussion of the New York Times Magazine, 1619 was held, using 90 minutes of discussion about the material and its implications for and about health equity. In 2021, an invitation to participate in the Reading Circle was extended to SEMPQIC membership at large. Several sections of the Roots of Health Inequity, an on-line curriculum, was read and discussed over several months. This curriculum was developed by the National Association of City and County Health Officials and offered history, a case study and stimulating material that produced insight into the current public health inequities across various systems. The Reading Circle is meant to increase the knowledge capacity of the SEMPQIC leadership team and its membership about issues that impact and influence the current system of perinatal care and that continue to support the unacceptable disparate health outcomes of Black and Brown people. In 2022, SEMPQIC Reading Circle read The Burden-African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery. The author Rochelle Riley led the facilitated discussion. The Reading Circle is conducted annually. Check our website for future participation.