NH AIM/ERASE Maternal Mortality Webinar Series - BLM New Hampshire Toolkit for Black Expecting Moms and the CenteringPregnancy Model

Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 12:00 PM - Saturday, July 14, 2029, 1:00 PM

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (1.00 hours), ASWB Social Work Credit(s) (1.00 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Join us to learn about two resources for prenatal patients: Black Lives Matter New Hampshire's Toolkit for Black Expecting Moms and CenteringPregnancy! Tanisha Johnson, MBA, Executive Director and Co-Founder of BLM NH, will speak to the "Your Pregnancy, Your Power" Toolkit. Then, Jessica Densmore, MSN, CNM at DHMC Lebanon will walk through the CenteringPregnancy model for soon-to-be parents. We will end the session with an interactive Q&A.

Presenters

Tanisha Johnson, MBA
Executive Director
Black Lives Matter New Hampshire

Jess Densmore, DM, CNM, FACNM
Midwife
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Adjunct Faculty
Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

1. Identify one or more concrete resources for Black expecting parents, partners, and family members.
2. Describe the CenteringPregnancy model, including related outcomes for perinatal patients.

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Bibliographic Material

• Boothe, E., Olenderek, M., Noyola, M.C. et al. (2021) Psychosocial outcomes of group prenatal care. Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-020-01441-6

• CenteringCounts® 2018 data based on sites’ self-report, over 11,000 births (approximately 18% of all 2018 Centering births)

• Centering Healthcare Institute. 2/6/2026. https://centeringhealthcare.org

• Crockett, A. H., Chen, L., Heberlein, E. C., Britt, J. L., Covington-Kolb, M. S., Witrick, M. B., Doherty, M.E., Zhang, L., Borders, A., Keenan-Devlin, L., Smart, M. B., & Heo, M. (2022). Group versus traditional prenatal care for improving racial equity in preterm birth and low birthweight: the Cradle randomized clinical trial study. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

• Heberlein, E. C., Smith, J. C., LaBoy, A., Britt, J., & Crockett, A. (2021). Birth Outcomes for Medically High-Risk Pregnancies: Comparing Group to Individual Prenatal Care. American journal of perinatology, 10.1055/a-1682-2704. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1682-2704

• Ickovics JR, Kershaw TS, Westdahl C, Magriples U, Massey Z, Reynolds H, Rising SS. Group prenatal care and perinatal outcomes: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Aug;110(2 Pt 1):330-9. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.AOG.0000275284.24298.23. Erratum in: Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Oct;110(4):937. PMID: 17666608; PMCID: PMC2276878.

• Jones, T.H., Crump, W.J., Foster, S.M. et al. Group Prenatal Care vs. Traditional Prenatal Care: A Parity-Matched Comparison of Perinatal Outcomes in a Rural Community. Matern Child Health J 27, 575–581(2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-023-03600-z

• Joyce A. Martin, Hamilton, Brady E. , Osterman, Michelle J.K. Anne K. Driscoll, Corporate Authors(s) : National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Births: Final Data for 2018. 11/27/2019. https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/231883

• Lewis, J. B., Cunningham, S. D., Shabanova, V., Hassan, S. S., Magriples, U., Rodriguez, M. G., & Ickovics, J. R. (2021). Group prenatal care and improved birth outcomes: Results from a type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study. Preventive medicine, 153, 106853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106853

• March of Dimes Premature Birth Report card. 2019.

• 2025 March of Dimes Report Card: The State of Maternal and Infant Health for American Families. March of Dimes. 2025. https://www.marchofdimes.org/reportcard

• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity. (2018). Breastfeeding Report Card: United States, 2018. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/58218.

• OECD (2017), Health at a Glance 2017: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris.

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/health_glance-2017-en

• Patberg E, Young M, Archer S, Duininck G, Li J, Blackwell C, Lathrop E, and Haddad L. (2020). Postpartum Contraceptive Use and Other Reproductive Health Outcomes Among CenteringPregnancy Group Prenatal Care Participants. Journal of Women's Health 2020.

• Picklesimer AH, Billings D, Hale N, Blackhurst D, Covington-Kolb S. The effect of CenteringPregnancy group prenatal care on preterm birth in a low-income population. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2012 May;206(5):415.e1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2012.01.040. PMID: 22542115.

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