Convening #14 Cash As Care: Healthy Moms. Healthy Families. Healthy Communities.

 

Objectives & Outcomes

• Learn about cash as a public health intervention and how healthy moms are necessary to create and support healthy families and healthy communities
• Hear from moms who are guaranteed income recipients about the impact it has on their lives, health, and well being
• Hear from community members who design guaranteed income programs for their communities on their priorities and community 

Materials

• Cash As Care: Healthy Moms. Healthy Families. Healthy Communities.
• Cash During Pregnancy: An Opportunity to Address Birth Justice (Abundant Birth Project)

AGENDA (EST)

1:00 Welcome 

Dr. Aisha Nyandoro, Springboard To Opportunities

1:05 Cash as a Health Intervention

Dr. Zea Malawa, Expecting Justice

Dr. Aisha Nyandoro, Springboard To Opportunities

1:40 Guaranteed Income for Healthy Moms, Healthy Families, and Healthy Communities

Facilitated by Melissa Harris Perry

Panelists:

Tamika Calhoun, Magnolia Mother’s Trust recipient

Daniela DeJesus Gutierrez, Bridge Project recipient

Patanjali de la Rocha, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services

Michelle Lockhart, Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force 

2:20 From the Ashes film trailer

Theresa Fortune, Founder of Communion with the Community and Filmmaker of From the Ashes

Nicole Morris, Doula Support Services, Alameda Public Health

2:25 Closing Remarks

Representative Bonnie Watson-Coleman (NJ-12), Co-Chair The Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls 

2:30 Aisha Nyandoro, Springboard To Opportunities