We Hope You Enjoyed the Winter/Spring 2021 “From the Heights” Events
Promise Heights PROUDLY OFFERED A NEW series of Winter/Spring 2021 virtual conversations with authors, legislators, and thought leaders that are designed to inform and engage participants in current issues that impact children and families
Please keep an eye out for our upcoming virtual program schedule, sign up for an RSS feed to receive these updates, and check our YouTube channel.
As this unpredicted season began against the backdrop of Covid-19, racial unrest, and action for justice and healing – nothing was normal.
Our From the Heights virtual series examined the challenges of the moment, offering actionable insights that you can use today.
We aimed to give strategies and ideas to prompt hope, add fuel to the push for equity, and create circumstances for transformation across health and education fields.
Don’t worry if you missed any of the programs! Click here to see a recording of each event on our YouTube Channel!
Here’s the event we shared on Saturday, JUNE 19 from 1-2:30pm!
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE RECORDING OF THIS EVENT.
THIS IMPORTANT Event Took Place on Monday, April 12 from 2-3:30pm
The Black Maternal Health Crisis in the United States:
Although you may have missed the live conversation, click here to view the video on our Promise Heights YouTube Channel.
As this unpredicted season begins against the backdrop of Covid-19, racial unrest, and action for justice and healing – nothing is normal. The Promise Heights From the Heights virtual series will look at the challenges of the moment, offering actionable insights that you can use today.
The third of these free virtual webinar conversations took place on Monday, April 12, 2021 from 2-3:30 pm, featuring a message from Congresswoman Lauren Underwood, representing the 14th District of Illinois as the first woman, the first person of color, and first millennial to represent her community in Congress, and also the youngest Black woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives.
The Black Maternal Health Caucus was launched by Congresswomen Alma Adams and Lauren Underwood to improve Black maternal health outcomes and to raise awareness within Congress about the problem and advocate for effective, evidence-based, culturally component policies and best practices for health outcomes for Black mothers.
Also joining our conversation moderated by Reporter Tatyana Turner of The Baltimore Sun were:
L. Latéy Bradford, MD, PhD, University of Maryland Medical Center: Chief Resident, Family Medicine
Stacey Stephens, LCSW-C, Director, B'more for Healthy Babies, Promise Heights
Stephanie Etienne, CNM, Certified Nurse Midwife based in Baltimore
ABOUT THIS EVENT:
As stated in the Black Maternal Health Caucus/Momnibus website, “In the richest nation on earth, moms are dying at the highest rate in the industrialized world—and the rate is rising. For as dire as the situation is for all women, the crisis is more severe for Black mothers.” More recently, the March 11, 2021 New York Times featured story, “Why Black Women Are Rejecting Hospitals in Search of Better Births" reported that, “Black mothers in the United States are 4 times as likely to die from maternity-related complications as white women.”
Black women also experience higher rates of maternal complications and infant mortality. They are twice as likely to lose an infant to premature death, and these disparities have not improved in more than 30 years. These disproportionate inequities exist regardless of income, educational level or any other demographic characteristic.
This April 12 virtual session provided insights how to make pregnancy and childbirth safer in the U.S., amplify community–driven policy, practice and systems and enhance community organizing on Black maternal health by taking action to reduce maternal mortality and reduce morbidity related to childbirth.
To learn more about the From the Heights series of virtual events, click here.
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Image from the Everyman Theatre production of Pipeline
Pipeline: An Essential Conversation
Tina Hike-Hubbard, Baltimore City Public Schools Chief of Communications and Community Engagement and former Renaissance Academy High student will explore, Pipeline, a theatre production scheduled at Everyman Theatre later in the season.
In this work, playwright Dominique Morisseau writes about how a mother's hopes for her son clash with the systemic racism of an educational system that’s rigged against him, leaving us to question the structures that trap young men of color.
An actor from the play (TBA); a current Renaissance Academy High School Student (TBA); Bronwyn Mayden, Executive Director, Promise Heights; and Tina Hike-Hubbard, Baltimore City Public Schools will explore the resonance of this work in a discussion about the pertinence and timely nature of this production.
(Registration is not yet open. Please check back: when we announce the day and time, you can click here to register for this free program.)
DID YOU MISS OUR PREVIOUS “From The Heights” EVENTS?
You can view them on YouTube—see the links below
Did you miss our March 15 webinar?
On March 15 from 3-4:30pm, we hope you enjoyed the webinar when Dr. Lawrence T. Brown and Dr. Nadine M. Finigan-Carr discussed Dr. Brown’s newly released book, The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America, and explored a clear five-step plan to achieve racial equality.
In his work via the Black Butterfly Project, Dr. Brown puts Baltimore under a microscope, examining the causes of segregation, many that exist in current legislation and regulatory policies, despite the common belief that overtly racist policies are of the past.
Order an autographed copy of this book today from Charm City Books.
Note to Social Workers: 1.5 Category One CEUs are available for $15, and you can pay after registering for this live webinar.*
*The University of Maryland School of Social Work Office of Continuing Professional Education is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for this program. We are also approved to offer CE to Licensed Counselor and Psychologists. Each training qualifies for 1 to 1.5 Category 1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
Successful completion of this activity requires your participation in the entire activity, and completion of an evaluation form. CE certificates will be emailed within one week. If you do not receive a certificate, please email us at cpe@ssw.umaryland.edu. We will not honor any certificate requests after one month from the date of each program.
Funding for the From the Heights series was provided by The Annie E. Casey Foundation and Kaiser Permanente
Did you miss our February 22 webinar?
Overcoming the Stigma of Treating Mental Health Concerns in the Black Community
This event took place from 2-3pm (Eastern Time) on Monday, February 22, 2021
To view a video of this program on our YouTube Channel, click here.
Dr. David Satcher, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the 16th Surgeon General of the United States, and author of My Quest for Health Equity; and Andrea Brown, Executive Director of the Black Mental Health Alliance engaged a lively discussion about how to best address attitudes toward treatment, the current lack of sufficient Black mental health care practitioners, and what we can do now to address these and other pertinent issues.
You can still order Dr. Satcher’s book, “My Quest for Health Equity” from Charm City Books.
Registration for this free program is CLOSED although you can still see the details of the actual event.
Note for Social Workers: 1 CEU were available for this program for $10. If you requested and paid for CEUs when you registered and have questions, please
*The University of Maryland School of Social Work Office of Continuing Professional Education is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for this program. We are also approved to offer CE to Licensed Counselor and Psychologists. Each training qualifies for 1 to 1.5 Category 1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
Successful completion of this activity requires your participation in the entire activity, and completion of an evaluation form. CE certificates will be emailed within one week. If you do not receive a certificate, please email us at cpe@ssw.umaryland.edu. We will not honor any certificate requests after one month from the date of each program.
