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Moms & Families
Your experiences and perspectives belong in shaping maternal healthcare systems.
Explore OpportunitiesTransforming Maternal Healthcare Through Meaningful Patient Partnership
Meaningful patient partnership requires more than asking people to share their stories. We help healthcare and public health organizations build the infrastructure, leadership pathways, and implementation support needed to integrate lived experience into maternal healthcare improvement.
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Where we lead
Healthcare & Public Health
Implementation support, workforce development, and patient partnership infrastructure for healthcare and public health organizations.
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Partners & Leaders
Collaborate on systems transformation, implementation, and patient partnership advancement.
Explore PartnershipsEstablished infrastructure
Not a small advocacy project — a coordinating center with national reach across maternal healthcare systems.
400+Certified patient family partners
45+Organizational partners in the MVP Network
Our philosophy
Built With Patients and Families, Not Just For Them
Traditional patient engagement often asks people to share their experiences without building the infrastructure, support, or leadership pathways needed for meaningful partnership.
MoMMAs Voices partners with healthcare systems, patient family partners, and community organizations to operationalize lived experience integration through implementation support, leadership development, and engagement infrastructure.
"People are often invited to share — but not invited to lead."
Lived Experience Integration (LEI)
A systems framework for integrating lived experience into maternal healthcare improvement, governance, and implementation efforts.
Explore LEIPatient Family Partner Certification
Structured leadership development and certification preparing patient family partners for meaningful participation in healthcare systems improvement.
Explore CertificationHosted PFAC Infrastructure
Scalable support for healthcare organizations building patient and family partnership infrastructure into systems improvement work.
Explore Hosted PFACsSupporting Meaningful Partnership in Practice
We support healthcare organizations, collaboratives, and implementation partners through facilitation, technical assistance, partnership coordination, patient partner integration support, and systems implementation guidance.
Our work helps organizations move from engagement intentions to operationalized partnership infrastructure.
Partnership Coordination
Supporting healthcare organizations in identifying, integrating, and coordinating patient family partner participation within systems improvement efforts.
Technical Assistance
Guidance and implementation support for organizations building meaningful patient partnership into healthcare systems and initiatives.
Facilitation Support
Structured facilitation for advisory groups, engagement initiatives, implementation efforts, and collaborative systems work.
Evaluation & Systems Support
Support for measuring engagement effectiveness, implementation progress, and systems integration outcomes.
The MVP Network
A growing network of organizations, healthcare leaders, advocates, and implementation collaborators working together to strengthen meaningful patient partnership across maternal healthcare systems.
45+
Partner organizations
collaborating across maternal healthcare
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Types of representation
health systems · community orgs · advocates · patient & family partners · researchers · funders
20+
States & regions
contributing to nationwide reach
Collaboration across healthcare systems, community organizations, advocates, and implementation partners strengthens meaningful patient partnership efforts nationwide.
Explore the MVP NetworkImplementation Areas
Our frameworks and implementation models are applied across maternal healthcare initiatives to support meaningful partnership, systems improvement, and patient-centered implementation efforts.
Explore Implementation ResourcesSubstance Use Disorder Care
Implementation resources, lived experience integration, and respectful care tools supporting maternal healthcare systems working to improve care for pregnant and postpartum people affected by substance use disorder.
Insights & Updates
Perspectives, implementation stories, partnership highlights, and updates from across the MoMMAs Voices program.
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Overcoming Compassion Fatigue
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Patient Advocates
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Recognition and Response to Postpartum Preeclampsia in the Emergency Department
Ready to strengthen meaningful partnership in practice?