Consulting & Technical Assistance
in maternal health policy, curriculum design & grant writing
Collaboration and curriculum design for projects centered in birth equity and reproductive justice with an emphasis on:
• High-value, evidence-based perinatal models of care.
• Midwifery-led models of care and the engagement of multiple stakeholders (e.g., community/advocacy groups, midwifery/provider groups, state Medicaid agencies, and Medicaid health plans)
• Doulas and perinatal community health workers.
• Maternal mortality and morbidity elimination
Jill is a content expert and academic partner contributor on high value, respectful, equitable maternity care to local, state and federal stakeholders.
Jill has been an academic partner & offered technical assistance for RFP writing, program design, evaluation, resource coordination and curriculum design. Past projects and clients include:
Institute for Medicaid Innovation & Every Mother Counts’ "Doula and Perinatal Community Health Workers in Medicaid: A Learning Series on Leveraging Community-Based Support Services in Medicaid."
Jill was a consultant and part of the IMI Project Team for their doula and perinatal health worker in Medicaid series
NJ Department of Health’s Healthy Women Healthy Families for RFP review/projects for clinical and community partners including provider education on reducing the first cesarean birth and other national performance measures.
Paterson Neighborhood Community Doula project
The Children s Home Society of NJ & ThePartnership for Maternal Child Health of Northern NJ,
Birth Sisters of Charlottesville (VA)
Rutgers WIC
East Orange WIC
Zufall federally-qualified health center
The Burke Foundation - technical assistance for doula workforce development and midwifery policy work
Every Mother Counts - technical assistance and curriculum design for the Doula and Perinatal Community
Health Worker in Medicaid Learning series