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Cradle Kansas City is a collective impact initiative created to address infant mortality in the Kansas City region.
This collective gathers partners who work in the family support sector, including maternal child health organizations, medical systems, education, housing, and transportation services. These organizations and individuals work to uplift the voice of the community and provide support to local families. Our goal at Cradle KC is to close the health equity gap and ensure all Kansas City babies are healthy babies.
This initiative and the Cradle Community Action Board were created in 2018 in response to the increasing infant mortality rate and widened gap of infant/maternal death rates between Black and White babies and mothers. We are constantly working to identify issues within Black maternal health care, along with actively advocating and providing support to Black mothers and families.
Our goal at Cradle KC is to close the health equity gap and ensure all Kansas City babies are healthy babies.
We initiate and complete the majority of our work behind the scenes, rather than directly within the community, including policy and advocacy discussions, distribution of information and resources, and providing support to other maternal child health initiatives.
Here is some of our work done to impact Black maternal health and health care:
While we are doing quite a bit to help improve Black maternal health care and mortality, we can’t be the only ones dedicated to this drastic issue. Mothers are dying, babies aren’t surviving the first year of life, and families are being split apart; for those who don’t have a voice, how many are losing their lives because no one is listening?
CradleKC aims to give mothers and families a voice and be the echo to ensure their voices ring clear, especially in minority and underserved communities. Along with giving them a voice, we are listening and making sure other people are listening, too. Black mothers and families desperately need other organizations to help in this fight or little to no change will occur. Cradle KC is here to show the reality of the Black maternal health crisis so that everyone can fully grasp the severity of the situation and work to make a change.
To learn more about Cradle KC and the work that we do to help mothers, babies, and families in the community, visit the Cradle KC website, contact Mariah Chrans, or contact Shalese Clay.