Trust should be visible
How The Village builds and checks its guidance.
Content and source links updated August 25, 2026 · United States
It records an editorial, safety, evidence, route, and link check. The platform has not yet completed named, independent review by an OB-GYN and perinatal mental-health clinician. That review—and diverse patient testing—should happen before broad clinic distribution.
What is checked
Safety first
Urgent language starts with current U.S. government guidance and preserves a clear 911, 988, urgent-medical-care, and non-crisis maternal-support hierarchy.
Primary authorities
Federal and state agencies, official program directories, and professional clinical organizations are preferred for medical timing, eligibility, rights, and public-service facts.
Visible limits
Education is separated from diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, referral, scheduling, counseling, and emergency response. Outside services remain independent.
Whole-woman review
Each path is checked for the mother’s physical recovery, mental health, food, rest, work, money, safety, identity, access barriers, and the possibility that no safe helper exists.
Tired-mind review
High-stakes actions come first; labels use plain language; interactive results announce themselves; and core tools work without an account or a required personal story.
Link and route checks
Public pages, internal destinations, fragments, state and territory exceptions, source links, emergency numbers, and paused-service boundaries are checked before publication.
What is not claimed
The Village does not claim that a page is complete for every person, that an outside program will be available or appropriate, or that inclusion means endorsement. The site does not know whether someone called, connected, received care, or improved. A source date does not replace an individual clinician’s judgment or local policy.
Clinic and community use
The Before You Need It guide is the accessible digital companion to the clinic handout. Before a clinic, health system, or community program distributes the handout at scale, it should confirm local phone and after-hours pathways, complete qualified obstetric and perinatal mental-health review, and test the material with mothers who reflect the community—including people with disabilities, limited English proficiency, pregnancy loss, no safe helper, and barriers to care.
Corrections and updates
No monitored correction or clinical-message inbox is operating today, so do not send symptoms, records, or identifying information through an unlisted channel. When a privacy-governed correction route is ready, it will be published here. For urgent symptoms, use the urgent warning-sign path and contact care now rather than waiting for a site update.