Shades Of Motherhood Network In Press

Derick Hall's pick is in! The Shades of Motherhood Network is a non-profit organization in Spokane that works to serve mothers of color and their infants in the Eastern Washington community. As a network of support, their mission is to ensure every Black mother in the U.S. has a high quality, supportive, childbirth experience through offering community education in art activism, nutrition & wellness counseling, and doula care.

Watch Stephanie Courtney talk about an upcoming event and how we get involved in our community and our Ugly Sweater Fundraiser! She goes to explain what our mission is and how this fundraiser will allow The Shades of Motherhood Network to do more work in this community! Click Below to watch her on KHQ

Black maternal mortality is a reality that pierces through conversations about health equity. It leaves a gaping hole where questions about warning signs and red flags linger once hindsight is too late. Headaches, swelling, erratic blood pressure readings, internal bleeding, pain, blurred vision; these scenarios can play out to an unnecessary, fatal end when Black women are ignored during postpartum care.

Activist. Innovator. Leader. Stephaine Courtney is described by her Rising Star nominator as driven to connecting people and sparking change for the underrepresented in the greater Spokane community. As executive director and founder of The...

Year awarded: 2023, Round 2

The Shades of Motherhood Network is a Black-focused empowerment group centered around birthing people and their stories. Their mission is to ensure every Black parent and parents of people of color have support natally and culturally throughout their childbirth experience. They provide innovative resources like peer support groups, empowering community workshops, and comprehensive doula care, helping families navigate the complex, and often systemically racist medical industry. 

To make childbirth a more healing, cultural and relational experience, Stephaine Courtney founded the Shades of Motherhood Network to primarily serve birthing people of African descent and people with children of color in Spokane County. The organization aims to bring awareness to Black maternal health as Black women have the highest childbirth mortality rate in the United States.

The organization does this in part through the creation of local art exhibits. This year, the Network hosted two art exhibits on Black Maternal Health at.....

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Shades of Motherhood Network is hosting 'A Night of Sisterhood' to honor different black women from around the Inland Northwest and their work to better the community. 

Shades of Motherhood Network is a local organization that works to create equitable relationships between Black women and other women of color that offers peer networking, special events, and programming for women's issues.

For the past 40 years, YWCA has highlighted women in the community for their achievements and commitment to the Y's mission of empowering women and eliminating racism. 

One mother-daughter duo who won the award share a passion for bettering their community and speaking up for those who cannot. 

"Always feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, as they would say, and so it doesn't surprise me that all of my children do exactly that," said Stephy Nobles-Beans, 2014 WOA Honoree.