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Cultural Accountability For Midwives:
Reconciling Birth Culture with Equity and Justice
Racial disparities in infant and maternal health outcomes are alarming. Birth needs to be safer for Black, Indigenous and people of color in the United States.
As midwives, we have the opportunity to impact this situation if we commit ourselves to becoming part of the solution. Ninety-five percent of Certified Professional Midwives are white women. This class offers instruction and supportive space to take accountability and make positive change.
This class is for:
White midwives who care about increasing safety in childbirth for people of color and are ready to get to work making it happen.
Birthworkers of color are welcome to participate free of charge. To enroll as a birthworker of color please use the form linked below.
In this course you will:
Study history to understand the nuanced birth culture we exist within.
Utilize a process of self-reflection to heal racialized trauma within yourself.
Collaborate to forge a new birth culture for the future.
After this course you will be able to:
Provide more culturally competent care to a wider patient population.
Expand the influence of your practice.
Have a more meaningful impact on the maternal health crisis.
Heal racialized trauma within your body and psyche.
Click here to take the one hour introductory class:
Or continue below to enroll in the comprehensive five week journey…
Five week self-guided course topics include:
Welcome and Introduction
White Privilege/White Body Supremacy
History and Context of Racism in American Medicine
Safety and Colonization
Pathways Forward
What’s included with the class:
Twelve hours of curated content offering a mosaic of information from voices of wisdom in the field of social justice. Various forms of content accommodate a spectrum of learning styles including podcasts, videos and articles.
Two hours of videos from instructor, integrating social justice elements into birth work practices.
Reflection questions to springboard your personal healing and visionary practice.
Three synchronous online Zoom classes in the first, third and fifth weeks. (All classes take place on Monday evenings at 1 or 2pm hst/4pm pst/5pm mst/6pm cst/ 7pm est).
Access to Google classroom for one year.
Private online discussion space.
18 hours CE for Certified Professional Midwives (pending MEAC approval).
Tara Compehos is a Certified Professional Midwife (licensed in Hawaii and Louisiana) who works intimately with plant medicine. She believes in undisturbed birth, normal physiological birth, and birth empowerment. It is with this energy that she offers courses on plant medicine, midwifery skills, childbirth education and cultural accountability.
I believe in equitable access to reproductive health resources. I do not want anyone to miss out on this information due to lack of funds. Therefore I do offer a sliding scale. Please fill out this google form to pay on a sliding scale.