Jill's portfolio of technical assistance on community doula care, sustainable funding models for community doula program and doula curriculum design has been leveraged by non profits, municipal and state departments of health and clinical systems.
Most recently, Jill is doing state and national work with medicaid policies for non clinical peer support enhancement in maternity care.
Doula care is proven key strategy to improve maternal and infant health that is used all over public health systems in the United States.
While working at MSU, Jill convened a series of innovative oral archives called the "NJ Doula Dialogues."
These conversations mark the significance of doula care in NJ as they met the evolving demands of childbearing families during the pandemic.
Co-directed with Jess Larsen Brennan and published in summer 2022, the project includes:
8 panel recordings (recorded Zoom sessions)
8 full text transcriptions of the sessions
Extended panelist bios of all participating doulas
A guide to extended supplemental resources with live links
Policy recommendations compiled from the interviews
Report: Opportunities & Inspiration for Collaboration
In 2021 Jill co-authored a landmark report together with Jess Brennan, “Opportunities & Inspiration for Birth Doulas and Hospitals in NJ,” a landscape survey about ways doulas and NJ hospitals can become intentionally less entrenched and more aligned in care.
*Infographic and research from National Partnership for Women & Families.
Jill offers experienced technical assistance in developing sustainable community doula programs, including:
Technical assistance for community doula program development
Capacity building for community doula projects
Sustainable funding models for community doulas, including Medicaid waivers for doula care
Coordination of doula best practices and public health programs
Collaboration with Offices of Medicaid and other payers, states, nonprofits, community partners.
From one-day workshops to longer-term technical assistance and consulting, Jill provides expert community doula program development to establish, sustain and coordinate best practices for states, offices of Medicaid and other health care partners.
Unlike midwives, who are licensed health care providers that offer clinical care in hospitals and federally qualified health centers, community doulas have a different scope of care.
Doulas provide patient education, labor support, and home visits within a community health worker model.
Jill crafts public health community doula curriculums that better incorporate federal and state public health initiatives (WIC, evidence based home visitation) as well as regional and local resources available to local families.