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About the Coalitions

The NHPQC hosts 11 regional coalitions, representing all counties throughout the state of New Hampshire. In 2026, the NHPQC also launched two new community-based coalitions: a BIPOC coalition to meeting the needs of black and brown families and a moms/caregivers network, Voices of Birth & Beyond to support families who are new to coalition building or supporting improvement projects in the maternal health space. Read more below on each of the coalitions and funded projects.

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2026 Funded Projects

  • Perinatal Health Survey in process to help determine new intiatives

2025 Funded Projects

  • Providing funds to community services that support reducing barriers to perinatal mental health

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2026 Funded Projects

  • Following success of 2025, Community baby shower for BIPOC families, the coalition will host another one in Fall 2026
  • Mothers & Babies Training for evidenced-based postpartum depression prevention intervention certification
  • Postpartum Support Groups Assessments in partnership with Families in Tansitions

2025 Funded Projects

  • Community baby shower for BIPOC families
  • Training non-clinical group facilitators in perinatal mental health
  • Gather community input if additional groups are needed (perinatal mental health, SUD, etc.)

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2026 Funded Projects

  • Supporting the Statewide Marketing Toolkit 
  • Perinatal Health Literacy Workshop for families
  • Infant Feeding Support Group
  • Perinatal Health Needs Assessment Survey

2025 Funded Projects

  • Marketing campaign to improve engagement in existing resources in the region (especially home visiting) through sharing real stories from patients/ community members
  • Gathering information on the needs of the perinatal community to inform our work in the future around expanding, adding, creating
    more education and group opportunities for learning and social connection

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2026 Funded Projects

  • Community Listening Sessions
  • Perinatal Health Needs Survey
  • Supporting the Statewide Marketing Toolkit

2026 Listening Session

  • Marketing campaign of existing supports/resources
  • Hiring a consultant to create a campaign
  • Use an event app to promote resources
  • Collect data on barriers to accessing groups/resources

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2026 Funded Projects

  • Postpartum Support Groups in partnership with Holistic Birth and Beyond
  • Translated Videos for Perinatal Resources with the United Way of Greater Nashua – videos will be available in Spanish, Portuguese and Swahili
  • Lunch & Learn/Resource Binders for Hospitals 
  • Perinatal Health Needs Assessment Survey

2025 Funded Projects

  • Support planned community listening session that is using “Marnita’s Table” model and hold additional listening sessions
  • Raise awareness of and increase engagement in existing community resources (lunch & learns, marketing)
  • Support sustaining an existing postpartum group series for 6 months
  • Support translation of Welcome Baby materials and printing to replenish in the community
  • Co-create a prenatal education series

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2026 Funded Projects

  • Doula CONNECT to train healthcare and community-based providers on trauma-informed care and perinatal mental health in partnership with North Country Health Consortium & WOMB
  • Mamas Circle:

    Implemented by WOMB through the North Country Coalition Project in partnership with the North Country Maternity Network, Mamas Circle has become a trusted resource for mothers and families across the region. Working with the Family Resource Center, NCHC Doula CONNECT, Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, the Coös County Coalition for Youth & Young Families, and local perinatal providers, the circles offer education, support, and connection — including guest sessions from an Occupational Therapist and a Postpartum Doula on infant development, perinatal nutrition, and postpartum recovery. Families also access free diapers and perinatal supplies through the circles, the traveling Nursing Nook, and the WOMB office in Littleton.

    Year One impact (Oct 2025–June 2026): 10 Mamas Circles hosted, 22 mothers and 26 children served. Key challenges included consistent attendance, scheduling, marketing across a large rural region, and transportation and geographic barriers.

    Looking ahead (July–Sept 2026): continued Mamas Circle gatherings, ongoing free diaper and supply distribution, expanded outreach, and additional workshops and guest speakers — while strengthening partnerships to reach more North Country families.

2025 Funded Projects

  • Postpartum support group

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2026 Funded Projects

  • New Parent Playgroup
  • 1:1 Individualized Perinatal Support Pilot with “Mama Coach”

2025 Funded Projects

  • Sustain existing newborn play group
  • Start a dads’ group
  • Training for providers/ community orgs in TIC/SUD
  • Support community baby shower/resource fair

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2026 Funded Projects

  • In-person convening at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital planned for mid-September 2026

2025 Funded Projects

  • Parent/Family Resource Fair with emphasis on perinatal population (providers meet & greet/Q&A)
  • Regional resource/partner mapping and toolkit creation
  • Collect data on needs of the perinatal communities

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2026 Funded Projects

  • The Self-care Kits from year 1 has extended into Year 2 with an estimated 1,200 kits will be delivered to families 

2025 Funded Projects

  • Increase engagement in existing parent support groups
  • Train group leaders in perinatal mental health
  • Incorporate perinatal mental health into community groups
  • Create and distribute journaling materials to group participants

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2025 Funded Projects

  • Pilot a work group of people with lived experience and DCYF leadership to improve the process of engagement

  • Bring the Centering Pregnancy model back to Claremont area

  • Community shared fund for translation/interpretation services for
    all community orgs

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

2025 Funded Projects

  • Partnering with Waypoint to plan Community Baby Shower
  • 4th Trimester Parent Group
  • Planning to create a Birthing Trauma Support Group with PSI trained facilitators

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact Camilla Thompson at Camilla.M.Thompson@hitchcock.org

Coalitions typically meet each month. If you’re interested in joining an upcoming coalition meeting, please contact contact Lauren Chambers at Lauren.E.Chambers@hitchcock.org.

Who Can Join?

Our coalitions are comprised of a wide range of stakeholders working collaboratively towards improving maternal and infant health care and outcomes in our state. 

Patient & Family Network

  • Women
  • Birthing People
  • Family
  • Partners
  • Support Network
  • Caregivers

Policy Influencers

  • Policy Makers
  • Government Agencies
  • Insurance payers
  • Legislators
  • Professional Organizations

Clinical Providers

  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Lactation Consultants
  • Midwives
  • Doulas
  • APRNs
  • Community Health Workers
  • Peer Recovery Coaches
  • Family and Mom Support Groups
  • Nurses
  • Physicians

Community Services

  • Homebirth Community
  • Family Resource Centers
  • Childcare Providers
  • CHMCs
  • CHCs
  • Women’s health
  • Pediatrics
  • Birthing Centers
  • State employees
  • EMS
  • FQHCs
  • Hospital Systems of Care
  • Behavioral Health
  • Create local perinatal resource list publicly available
  • Maintain and update the resource list
  • Assess of regional priorities and help decide which ones are actionable
  • Keep track of improvements and actions taken by the coalition
  • Meet regularly on a schedule as decided by the coalition
  • Introductions, name and organization
  • Organizational updates 
  • Discuss regional priorities and issues
  • Work on resource map
  • Brainstorm solutions
  • Choose actionable solutions. Both short ( easy “low hanging fruit”. Ex: making informational flyers, connecting resources, etc.) and long (projects/programs to develop and implement. Ex: starting centering pregnancy groups, a new process of PMH referrals, finding funding for regular interpreter services, etc.)
  • Discuss/invite other members to include in the coalition to ensure diversity and representation of many stakeholders
  • Go over updates on action item To Do’s from last meeting
  • Discuss current projects and next steps.
  • Regularly (quarterly, annually, TBD) reevaluate regional priorities and coalition membership representation.
  • Report progress/projects back to NHPQC and soon to Statewide Maternal Health Task Force
  • Meeting frequency, format (hybrid, in-person, or virtual), agenda items, length of meeting
  • Coalition size
  • Priority issues to focus on
  • Action steps to take (generally aligned with NHPQC goals)
  • Governance structure of coalition (with equity in mind)
  • Collaboration tools (where/how to share deliverables with community, how to share/edit documents within the coalition)
  • How the NHPQC can support their coalition
  • Identifying local perinatal partners/members for the coalition
  • Maintaining membership lists
  • Providing resources and literature about the most successful methods for coalition building
  • Scheduling first meetings
  • Conducting listening sessions with local birthing people
  • Helping create a local perinatal resource map
  • Local process/referral network mapping
  • Holding webinars about ways to improve perinatal healthcare in NH and build/maintain coalitions
  • Holding an annual Summit to work through implementation and sustainability issues

How do Coalitions Work?

Learn more about what it means to be a part of an NHPQC local coalition!

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