Mission: The IMPLICIT Network is a family medicine maternal child health learning collaborative focused on improving birth outcomes and promoting the health of women, birthing people, infants, and families through innovative models of care, quality improvement and professional development for current and future physicians.

Vision:  To envision a future where all women/birthing people are fully supported to attain optimal health and wellness for themselves and their babies.  

Values: The work of the IMPLICIT Network is rooted in the following core values: 

• Commitment: Improving maternal health one woman/birthing person at a time
• Innovation: Developing methods to improve the health of women, birthing people, children and families
• Education:  Training future physicians and health care providers to positively impact the health of women/birthing people in their communities
• Collaboration:  Fostering a synergistic environment where all specialties can work towards birth and health equality for all
• Cultural Humility: Amplifying the expert voices of all women/birthing people to create trustworthy therapeutic alliances
• Justice:  Promoting respect, empathy and shared decision making as well as protecting dignity and safety for everyone 

• IMPLICIT Pregnancy - This model focused on improving prenatal care by providing education and promoting screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria, bacterial vaginosis screening for women/birthing people with a history of preterm birth, depression, smoking, and family planning during the first 15 weeks of pregnancy or by woman’s third prenatal visit, third trimester, delivery, and postpartum visit up to fifteen weeks after delivery.
• IMPLICIT Interconception Care (ICC) - This model focuses on screening women for smoking, depression, family planning, and multivitamin with folic acid intake during baby’s well child visits 0-24 months.

• IMPLICIT 4^TH Trimester - This model focuses on redefining postpartum care for women/birthing people by assessing of conditions and risks in the prenatal and intrapartum period.

• Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March-April 2018:  Delivering Interconception Care During Well-Child Visits: An IMPLICIT Network Study

• Annals of Family Medicine July-August 2016: Interconception Care for Mothers During Well-Child Visits with Family Physicians: An IMPLICIT Network Study

• Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July-August 2009: Improving Maternal Care with a Continuous Quality Improvement Strategy: A Report from the Interventions to Minimize Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants through Continuous Improvement Techniques (IMPLICIT) Network
  

• Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July-August 2008: Efficiency of a Two-Item Pre-Screen to Reduce the Burden of Depression Screening in Pregnancy and Postpartum: An IMPLICIT Network Study
• Interventions to Increase Multivitamin Use Among Women in the Interconception Period: An IMPLICIT Network Study
• Integrating Care for Mother Infant Dyads after Preterm Birth - Qual Feasibility Study
• Optimizing Interconception care - Rational for the IMPLICIT model
  
• The 4th Trimester Model: A New Approach to Improving Perinatal Care (pg 38)
• Clinician and Staff Perceptions of Barriers to Providing Contraception in Primary Care

 In addition, the IMPLICIT Network collaborated with the National March of Dimes to develop the IMPLICIT Interconception Care (ICC) Toolkit. Access the Toolkit by visiting https://www.marchofdimes.org/implicittoolkit. The Toolkit is free, although you will be prompted to create a username and password.