{"id":46,"date":"2022-08-09T21:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:33:35","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/?page_id=46","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>&#8220;Striving for birth equity through unity and empowerment&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BIMHI-Group-Photo-e1660080598400.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"481\" src=\"http:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BIMHI-Group-Photo-e1660080598400-1024x481.jpg\" alt=\"A group photo of Kern County BIMHI participants\" class=\"wp-image-48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BIMHI-Group-Photo-e1660080598400-1024x481.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BIMHI-Group-Photo-e1660080598400-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BIMHI-Group-Photo-e1660080598400-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BIMHI-Group-Photo-e1660080598400-1536x722.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BIMHI-Group-Photo-e1660080598400.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Kern County community steering committee formed in February 2021, meeting monthly to address health and outcome disparities in black infants and mothers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the Kern County Black Infant Maternal Health Initiative (BIMHI) are committed to promoting, educating, supporting, and advocating for better health outcomes for Black infants and mothers in our community through partnership with traditional and non-traditional partners. It is our goal to bring birth equity to our Black community by uniting and empowering birthing parents and physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BIMHI-Strategic-Plan-2025-2028.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3-Year Strategic Plan<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Striving for birth equity through unity and empowerment&#8221; A Kern County community steering committee formed in February 2021, meeting monthly to address health and outcome disparities in black infants and mothers. Our Mission Members of the Kern County Black Infant Maternal Health Initiative (BIMHI) are committed to promoting, educating, supporting, and advocating for better health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"zakra_page_container_layout":"customizer","zakra_page_sidebar_layout":"customizer","zakra_remove_content_margin":false,"zakra_sidebar":"customizer","zakra_transparent_header":"customizer","zakra_logo":0,"zakra_main_header_style":"default","zakra_menu_item_color":"","zakra_menu_item_hover_color":"","zakra_menu_item_active_color":"","zakra_menu_active_style":"","zakra_page_header":true,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kernbimhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}