Operationalizing Safety, Quality and Equity Through Collective Care and Leadership

Full Description: The National Perinatal Task Force (NPTF) is a grassroots movement that operationalizes safety, quality, and equity through collective care and leadership. The NPTF is a community of people who have a heart for birthing bodies and babies, and are concerned about the persistent and worsening maternal child health outcomes in the United States. We believe all people have the human right to maintain personal body autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we care for with equitable resources to thrive in community.

Guided by an equity lens, we believe in reproductive justice where even the most marginalized are able to birth with full human rights and self-determination; where we honor the powerful and sacred ability to create new humans and all childbearing people receive culturally grounded, attentive, quality, loving care. Mobilizing fierce love for our families and communities, the NPTF is dismantling the braid of oppression impacting communities of the Global Majority, while recognizing the strength of our intersectional collective in order to harness the limitless power of our lived experiences.

To model the world we are birthing, we utilize collective organizing to shift the paradigm of reproductive health by addressing the root causes of inequity, building collective power, and advancing liberation for all. We transform the world via praxis, where our collective practices as perinatal providers guide our methods for transforming the world and making social change.

In solidarity with our partners in movements for reproductive justice and all forms of social justice, we work in local communities to advance their vision and collectively birth a more just, loving world.

Abbreviated Description: The National Perinatal Task Force (NPTF) is a grassroots movement that operationalizes safety, quality, and equity through collective care and leadership. The NPTF is a community of people who have a heart for birthing bodies and babies, and are concerned about the persistent and worsening maternal child health outcomes in the United States. We believe all people have the human right to maintain personal body autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we care for with equitable resources to thrive in community. In solidarity with our partners in movements for reproductive justice and all forms of social justice, we work in local communities to advance their vision and collectively birth a more just, loving world.