AMCHP Leads National Coalitions in FY23 Maternal Health Appropriations Letters
June 06, 2022

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is excited to share an update on our Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations efforts. We thank our many national partners for their support as we work together to improve the health and well-being of women, children, including those with special health care needs, and their families.

This year, AMCHP led several coalitions of national organizations in urging Congress to increase funding for federal maternal and child health programs in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations legislation. AMCHP government affairs staff directly led or supported Members of Congress in leading seven sign-on letters to the leadership of House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The federal programs highlighted in these letters included:

  • The Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant;
  • Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SET-NET);
  • Healthy Start;
  • CDC’s Safe Motherhood and Infant Health portfolio of programs;
  • Research on maternal health at the National Institutes of Health; and
  • Programs newly authorized by the recent passage of the Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act and Rural Maternal and Obstetric Modernization of Services (Rural MOMS) Act.

Over 100 national organizations and academic institutions endorsed one or more of the sign-on letters, and dozens of lawmakers from both chambers and parties joined as signers of the letters led by Members of Congress. This far-reaching show of support highlights the urgency of improving maternal and child health in the U.S., eliminating long-standing and growing racial, ethnic, and geographic inequities in maternal and child health outcomes, and investing in the programs, policies, and people that will advance meaningful change.

We invite you to read the letters and learn more about AMCHP’s appropriations and other government affairs efforts by visiting www.amchp.org/government-affairs/.

We thank the following national partners for their support of one or more of the FY23 appropriations letters regarding maternal and child health programs:

  • 2020 Mom
  • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  • AcademyHealth
  • ACCP
  • AFE Foundation
  • African American Mayors Association
  • AIDS Alliance for Women, Infants, Children, Youth & Families
  • Alliance for Black NICU Families
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • American Association of Colleges of Nursing
  • American Association on Health and Disability
  • American College of Clinical Pharmacy
  • American College of Nurse-Midwives
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • American College of Physicians
  • American Heart Association
  • American Medical Association
  • American Medical Women’s Association
  • American Nurses Association
  • American Psychiatric Association
  • American Psychological Association
  • American Public Health Association
  • APS Foundation of America, Inc
  • Association for Prevention Teaching and Research
  • Association of Public Health Laboratories
  • Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
  • Association of State Public Health Nutritionists
  • Association of University Centers on Disabilities
  • Autism Society of America
  • Black Girls Vote
  • Black Mamas Matter Alliance
  • Catholic Health Association of the United States
  • Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health at Harvard
  • Centering Healthcare Institute
  • Child First
  • Child Welfare League of America
  • Children’s Environmental Health Network
  • Children’s Hospital Association
  • Community Catalyst
  • Crystal Ball Health
  • Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children (DEC)
  • Equitable Maternal Health Coalition
  • Every Mother Counts
  • Families USA
  • Family Voices
  • FASD United (Formerly NOFAS)
  • First Focus Campaign for Children
  • GLO Preemies
  • Guttmacher Institute
  • Hand to Hold
  • HealthConnect One
  • Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
  • Healthy Teen Network
  • HealthyWomen
  • Hemophilia Federation of America
  • Hyperemesis Education and Research Foundation
  • IDEA Infant and Toddler Coordinators Association (ITCA)
  • Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement (PQI)
  • International Stillbirth Alliance
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Lakeshore Foundation
  • Lamaze International
  • Lifeline for Families Center and Lifeline for Moms Program at the UMass Chan Medical School
  • March for Moms
  • March of Dimes
  • Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance
  • Medela
  • Mom Congress
  • MomsRising
  • NARAL Pro-Choice America
  • NASTAD
  • National Association for Children’s Behavioral Health
  • National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
  • National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
  • National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health
  • National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
  • National Birth Defects Prevention Network
  • National Birth Equity Collaborative
  • National Black Women’s HIV/AIDS Network, Inc.
  • National Blood Clot Alliance
  • National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association
  • National Healthy Start Association
  • National Institute for Children’s Health Quality – NICHQ
  • National League for Nursing
  • National Network of Public Health Institutes
  • National Nurse-Led Care Consortium
  • National Partnership for Women & Families
  • National Rural Health Association
  • National WIC Association
  • Nemours Children’s Health
  • Nurse-Family Partnership
  • Organization of Teratology Information Specialists
  • Parents as Teachers
  • PCOS Challenge: The National Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Association
  • Physicians for Reproductive Health
  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America
  • Postpartum Support International
  • Power to Decide
  • Preeclampsia Foundation
  • PreemieWorld, LLC
  • Prevent Blindness
  • Prevent Child Abuse America
  • Prevention Institute
  • Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT)
  • RESULTS
  • Safe States Alliance
  • Saint Luke’s Health System
  • School-Based Health Alliance
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Society for Public Health Education
  • Society for Reproductive Investigation
  • Society for Women’s Health Research
  • Spina Bifida Association
  • Tara Hansen Foundation
  • The 2 Degrees Foundation
  • The HOPE Study
  • The Jewish Federations of North America
  • The Joint Commission
  • The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health
  • The PPROM Foundation
  • The Shane Foundation
  • Trust for America’s Health
  • U.S. Breastfeeding Committee
  • UAMS
  • University at Albany School of Public Health
  • University of Illinois School of Public Health Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health
  • Vaccinate Your Family
  • ZERO TO THREE

 

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