Equipping families to have healthy births with dignity and reduce maternal health disparities.
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Find Community Support
Connect with our free community programs for eligible participants in Oklahoma.
Local Doula Services for Expecting Families
Our experienced, compassionate community-based doulas provide peer support to expecting parents, ensuring you are seen, heard, and supported from early pregnancy to the months immediately following birth.
Offer Community Support
Take part in our strategic local initiatives to reduce maternal health disparities and create real, measurable, improved birth outcomes for all in Oklahoma.
Community-Based Doula Training Program
Help parents enjoy a healthy birth experience! We equip qualified participants with the knowledge and skills needed to provide caring doula services to underserved populations, as well as expectant parents within their local communities.
Hospital Quality Improvement Program
Are you a healthcare professional, social services provider, or other member of our local medical community? Work with us to champion strategies that improve the quality of pregnancy-related care for all in Oklahoma’s hospital systems and provider networks.
OUr Vision
At Oklahoma Birth Equity Initiative, we envision an Oklahoma in which all people are centered and respected before, during, and after pregnancy.
Why We Do What We Do
Stress, healthcare challenges, systemic issues, and lack of communal support contribute greatly to these pregnancy outcomes, regardless of the woman’s socioeconomic, educational, or health status.
In Oklahoma, Black women are 3x and Native American & Alaska Native women are 2.5x more likely to die from pregnancy- and birth-related causes than white women.
About 3 in 5 of these tragic deaths are preventable—especially when consistent community support, education, and attentive medical care are equitably offered to all women.
We’re Giving a Voice to the Need — and Finding Solutions
Black, Native, Latine, teen, and justice-involved people are much more likely to experience systemic barriers to quality health care before, during, and after pregnancy. They are also more likely to face economic hurdles and have chronic health conditions that affect their conception, pregnancies, and births.
At OKBEI, we are changing this trend for the better. We’re creating a variety of local, community-focused programs and strategies to create equitable, healthy, joyous outcomes for all parents and babies in Oklahoma.
Discover the Difference We’re Making
Doula Services
If you are interested in receiving doula services and meet our eligibility criteria, simply fill out our online application. We will review your application and reach out to you within seven business days. Once your eligibility is confirmed, we will consult with you about your goals, and connect you with your doula.