Generate Health Advocacy
Advocating for Policies Promoting Racial Equity in Pregnancy Outcomes, Family Well-Being and Community Health
Generate Health mobilizes and inspires the St. Louis region to advance racial equity in pregnancy outcomes, family well-being, and community health.
We focus on policies and legislation that eliminate racial disparities in infant mortality and maternal health. Our work is guided by strategies that:
- Prioritize community voice in decision making processes
- Illuminate the root causes of racial disparities in infant mortality and maternal health
- Advocate for the redirection of resources to eliminate racial disparities in infant mortality and maternal health
- Catalyze action within the ecosystem
- Advance regional accountability for equitable systems
We participate in advocacy efforts in a variety of ways:
We drive advocacy, by leading advocacy efforts, determining strategies, and bringing folks together around issues.
We support advocacy, by participating in others’ strategies and bringing our community voices to the process.
We monitor issues, by tracking, testifying for or against an issue, or moving up in action if needed.
Learn how to track policies that impact Black maternal and infant health!
Generate Health’s 2023 Advocacy Agenda
ADVOCACY AGENDA PRIORITY #1:
Promote racial equity among social and economic factors that affect health in families and communities through:
- Supporting improved economic conditions such as livable wages, asset development, and paid family leave policy
- Supporting reliable, affordable transportation especially for Medicaid recipients and other low-income families
- Supporting affordable, safe housing
- Supporting efforts to improve access to affordable, high-quality childcare
- Monitoring efforts to improve access to affordable, healthy, and nutritious food no matter where one lives
ADVOCACY AGENDA PRIORITY #2:
Promote racial equity in maternal health and decrease maternal mortality through:
- Driving policies to improve access to affordable and equitable healthcare before, during, between, and after pregnancies, including 12-month postpartum coverage
- Driving coordination among maternal health providers for intake and referral, shared measurement, and training and efficacy
- Supporting access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care and preventive care
- Supporting programs that address behavioral health treatment for substance use, mental health, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
- Supporting culturally congruent, trauma-informed services through home visiting, community health workers, doulas, and birth workers
ADVOCACY AGENDA PRIORITY #3:
Promote racial equity in infant health and decrease infant mortality through:
- Driving polices that improve access to affordable and equitable healthcare for infants during birth and beyond
- Driving advocacy about safe sleep practices
- Driving coordination among infant health providers for intake and referral, shared measurement, and training and efficacy
- Supporting culturally congruent, trauma-informed services such as home visiting, community health workers, doulas, and birth workers
ADVOCACY AGENDA PRIORITY #4:
Promote access to equitable healthcare through:
- Driving the development of provider capacity to decrease implicit bias and racism, and to build trust through trauma awareness and cultural humility
- Supporting the implementation of Medicaid expansion in Missouri, including faster and easier Medicaid enrollment and restoring Medicaid and CHIP for adults and children who have been disenrolled or lost coverage
- Supporting policies that mitigate the disparate impact of COVID-19 in the Black community