Achievable Maternal Health Goals for Texas

These healthcare goals are achievable through advocacy and your generous support:

1. Strengthen Access to Sustainable Maternal Healthcare

Support practical, community-based solutions that strengthen access to maternal and preventive healthcare, particularly in rural and underserved Texas communities.

2. Build Community Capacity for Maternal Health

Strengthen the people and partnerships that support mothers—from healthcare professionals and community health workers to libraries, nonprofits, students, educators, and other trusted local partners.

3. Create Clearer Pathways to Care

Help families navigate fragmented systems by improving connections among healthcare providers, community resources, public benefits, behavioral health services, and other support sources. Promote stronger referral pathways, patient navigation, virtual care, and coordinated services.

4. Bring Care and Resources Closer to Families

Expand opportunities for mothers to access healthcare information, screenings, preventive services, and trusted resources where they live and gather—including libraries, community events, mobile and pop-up clinics, and virtual settings.

5. Strengthen Preventive Health Before, During, and After Pregnancy

Promote earlier and more consistent access to preventive care, including blood-pressure awareness, chronic-disease prevention and management, mental health, oral health, prenatal and postpartum care, and education about urgent maternal warning signs.

6. Reduce the Barriers that Keep Families from Getting Help

Address the real-world barriers that interfere with care—including transportation, food insecurity, childcare, housing instability, digital access, benefits enrollment, and difficulty locating appropriate services—and connect families with trusted local and statewide resources.

7. Use data to identify gaps and drive solutions

Combine public health data, GIS, community experience, and direct feedback from Texas families to identify where healthcare and support systems are breaking down—and use that information to guide outreach, partnerships, programs, and policy discussions.

8. Advance Community-Centered Data and Transparency

Advocate for improved maternal mortality data collection and bipartisan legislative support for transparency. Integrate community storytelling and lived experience into data analysis and public reporting to humanize disparities and shape effective policy.

9. Build Statewide Maternal Health Partnerships

Form sustainable partnerships with community-based organizations, healthcare providers, academic institutions, and public health agencies to drive innovation and reduce disparities.

10. Empower Mothers Through Advocacy and Education

Promote self-advocacy skills and provide education tools that empower mothers to confidently navigate the maternal healthcare system—especially those most at risk of poor outcomes.