MARQUETTE — Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions, an organization and fiduciary of the Region 1 Perinatal Quality Collaborative, has awarded $67,478 to seven community-based organizations and ten individuals in the Upper Peninsula.

These grants aim to enhance birth outcomes, reduce health disparities, and address the root causes of these disparities. The funded organizations and projects include:

≤ Doulas of Marquette – Advancing U.P. Birth Outcomes: Centering Families Through Doula Equitability & Expanding Access to Childbirth Education

≤ Gogebic-Ontonagon Great Start Collaborative – Education for Healthy Birth Outcomes

≤ Menominee County Intermediate School District – Safe Sleep Project

≤ Michigan Breastfeeding Network – Superior Lactation Support

≤ Community Foundation for Delta County – Protecting Infants

≤ UP Family Doula Care – Birth Ball Basics

≤ LMAS District Health Department – Luce County Birthing Resource Closet

≤ 10 Individual Breastfeeding Support Training and Continuing Education Scholarships