Birth Center Week 2024 Events
We are proud to share these incredible resources so together we can Grow Birth Centers & Grow Communities! Use the links below to find recordings of our powerful Birth Center Week 2024 sessions.
Sunday Support Circle: Birth Workers & Student Debt
An chat between Bri Franklin, debt constraint prevention expert, and BCE’s Denicia Cadena, to learn more about predatory lending and how to avoid it, and how debt overwhelm negatively impacts the diversity and quality of perinatal workforce and perinatal health overall.
So You Want to Start a Birth Center?
A workshop led by Tamara Taitt & Rebecca Polson of Kinfolk Consulting for Black, Indigenous aspiring and developing birth center leaders of color on how to start building the best birth center for you and your community.
Note: This session was not recorded per request of the presenters. For more information, go to Kinfolk Consulting.
Birth Centers are Public Health!
A special edition of the America Dissected podcast with public health leader Dr. Abdul El-Sayed* and BCE CEO & MPH Leseliey Welch to learn why birth centers are a crucial public health solution, and how public health and birth center leaders are collaborating to grow community birth infrastructure across the country.
*Dr. Sayed is Wayne County (MI) Public Health Director; Host, America Dissected podcast; and author of Healing Politics & Medicare for All
Stepping Up Together: Collaborating to Center Safety in Community Birth
Presenters from Primary Maternity Care shared tools available to support interdisciplinary emergency drills from birth center to hospital. We'll review the results of a recent national Step Up TogetherTM Action Collaborative and hear from Birth Detroit and Henry Ford Hospital about their interdisciplinary safety planning for Detroit's first community birth center.
How Did You Get There? Experiences of Latine Midwives in the US
The stories of Latine midwives from diverse communities across the country sharing about their paths to becoming midwives. This session is for those who speak Spanish as your first language and dream of being a midwife in a birth center and are curious about the paths of other Latine midwives in the US.
How Did You Get There? Wisdom from Indigenous Birth Center Leaders
Storytelling from Indigenous birth center leaders in communities across the country sharing about their paths to becoming midwives. This session is for Indigenous people who dream of being a midwife in a birth center and are curious about the paths of other Indigenous midwives in the US.
Birth Centers Belong to Us: Policies to Grow Birth Centers in Our Communities, Co-Sponsored with Black Mamas Matter Alliance
This session, co-sponsored with Black Mamas Matter Alliance, we heard from leaders on how birth workers can and should raise their voices for policies to support birth centers to thrive and learn together about exciting and successful efforts to make policy change led by and accountable to our communities.
What does it mean to Birth with Justice?
The words “Birth Justice” resonate in the hearts and minds of millions. But the story of how birth justice was born may be less widely known. In this session, Dr. Keisha Goode, (NACPM; State University of New York (SUNY), interviews Jamarah Amani (Southern Birth Justice Network; National Black Midwives Alliance) about the origins of birth justice and its roots in Black midwifery.
Birth Centers Birth Stories
We debuted one Birth Center Birth Story on Monday through Friday of Birth Center Week 2024. We heard directly from five birthing people who chose to give birth at a birth center. Hear the stories of birthing people in San Diego, Detroit, Dallas, San Juan, and Los Angeles!