Survive & Thrive: Achieving Birth Equity through a Community Perinatal Support Pipeline

Survive and Thrive, a CSU interdisciplinary research initiative created to help reduce infant and maternal mortality, has been awarded a $957,387 grant from the Ohio Third Frontier program through the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE).

Survive and Thrive partners CSU’s School of Nursing, School of Social Work in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs team members with Birthing Beautiful Communities – a local nonprofit founded in 2014 expressly to reduce Black infant and maternal deaths.

This funding allows the partnership to continue work into phase two with the ongoing development of a mobile app called “Thrive,” which captures clinical and social indicators for mothers, fathers and infants, and provides support resources to promote live births and a healthy first year for new babies.