Mission

PAC/LAC serves as a catalyst for change through advocacy, quality improvement and advancing equity with health care professionals, organizations and systems providing perinatal care.

Vision

To enrich the knowledge, skills, and experience of health care professionals, public health, and community-based organizations working with mothers, birthing people, infants, and their families through education, resources, leadership, advocacy and consultation

Core Values

PAC/LAC board members and staff embrace, exemplify, and embody our organizational core values in the following ways:

Service Excellence

• We achieve our mission and vision by consistently meeting and exceeding health professionals and health organizations’ expectations.
• We strive to provide meaningful, relevant, and current evidence-based information to improve health outcomes.

Integrity

• We promote honesty, transparency and fairness in all professional, organizational, academic, and interpersonal activities and relationships.
• We approach our work with a commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, and identity.

Learning

• We promote continuous learning and professional development for health professionals through a myriad of learning strategies.
• We are dedicated to sharing our expertise to improve the health of women, birthing persons, infants, and families.
• We proactively pursue learning opportunities for professional and personal growth to improve equitable, quality care.

Collaboration

• We work jointly/cooperatively with others to improve birth experiences and birth outcomes.

Innovation

• We encourage and share in the development of new ideas to improve patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes.
• We address implementation, evaluation, and sustainability when approaching each project.
• We are open to taking risks, creative thinking, and problem solving.

Fun

• We actively cultivate a work life balance, prioritizing families.
• We approach our daily work with passion, energy, humor, and enthusiasm.
• “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton.