MHEC Member Organizations
The Maternal Health Equity Collaborative (MHEC) is a collective of seven birth and parenting organizations that provide free services to families in Central Texas.
BMATX
Black Mamas ATX provides culturally aligned and client-centered birthing and mental health services and wraparound care that support community members through their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience.
MSVW
Mama Sana Vibrant Woman (MSVW) was founded by a collective of Black and Latina mothers in 2012 to address alarming maternal health disparities in Central Texas. Our mission is to eliminate health inequities by providing culturally attuned, comprehensive maternal health services for women and birthing people of color. With a holistic approach, we address both medical and non-medical drivers of health, ensuring our participants receive the resources and support they need for healthier pregnancies, births, and postpartum experiences.
Healing Hands Community Birthing Project is on a mission to produce a maternity workforce that provides wrap-around physical, social and emotional support services, eliminates negative birth outcome disparities in BIPOC childbearing people, improves birth outcomes, reduces maternal morbidity and mortality and pays birth workers a living, abundant wage.
HHCBP
LAMP is shifting the reproductive health landscape by using a whole-person, trauma-informed approach to perinatal care, ensuring that our clients receive the loving care and support they deserve. We offer a warm, nourishing environment for all people seeking reproductive health services, prioritizing Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color, especially immigrants, refugees, and queer and trans families. All our services are free of charge. No one is turned away.
LAMP
BMV
Black Mamas Village is a culturally rooted, community-led hub that supports Black mothers and families across Austin through mutual aid, wellness programming, emergency assistance, and a network of peer-driven connections. What began in 2019 as a small online gathering space has grown into a vibrant village that engages thousands of Black mothers each year through in-person programs at The Village Place and ongoing support across our online community.
PIP
Partners in Parenting (PIP) aims to strengthen the health and long-term well-being of new parents and young children in Central Texas by reducing isolation, supporting maternal mental health, and building parenting confidence. Through peer-based support groups, postpartum resources, mental health vouchers, and resource navigation, PIP intervenes early during one of the most critical stages of child development to prevent crises, strengthen family stability, and ensure every parent has the support needed to raise healthy, thriving children.
GALS
Giving Austin Labor Support (GALS) is dedicated to providing emotional, physical, and informational support to birthing people who are under-supported. Programs include doula care (on call, prenatal, postpartum, and support for those who are incarcerated), perinatal childcare (appointment based, postpartum rest, and emergency care), workforce development for doulas and childcare specialists, and community care support (case management, basic needs, baby showers, and advocacy). Vision: A world where every family experiences birth and early parenthood empowered by culturally affirming, trauma responsive care and the community support they desire, where no one births alone, all families have access to the resources they need to thrive, and the work of caring for families is valued, sustainable and centered in justice.