Save The Date
The fight for bodily autonomy begins with us..
Join us for an intensive abortion doulas skills lab facilitated by Dr. Michelle Drew on Aug 20th 9am-5pm (EST). There are virtual and in person options to attend. So if you are a doula seeking to expand your services or a newbie inspired to help members of your community to get the essential health care and emotional support of an abortion doula; please take advantage of this free training hosted by the Southern Birth Justice Network.
Dr. Michelle Drew, DNP MPH CNM FNP-C is a practicing nurse midwife, archivist, political activist. She is a descendant of African American women healers that dates back more than 250 years to her 7th great grandmother Sarah a midwife who was free Black woman in Surry County, Virginia.
As a public health nurse of three decades, Mama Michelle as she is known in the North Wilmington community where she proudly lives and serves, has practiced in the United States, Central and South America and Central Africa with a targeted interest in community based research and interventions that improve infant and child survival by optimizing maternal health and infant feeding. With intention she has worked her entire career in marginalized communities.
A practicing midwife with more than 20 years of clinical experience caring for communities made vulnerable by structural racism, she has attended the births of 2700 babies and counting. Providing full scope reproductive health services she walks with people capable of pregnancy through their full health course affirming all their choices of when, where, how, or even if they choose to bear children.
Our Work
Advocacy
Doula Training
Education
SBJN organizes Black midwives and student midwives to establish a representative voice at the national level that clearly identifies and supports the various needs and interests of Black birthing people.
Education
Doula Training
Education
SBJN offers educational training in the areas of conception, reproductive & maternity care, family planning, abortion & miscarriage services, maternal health, fitness, nutrition, self-care, breast feeding, and birth justice.
Doula Training
Doula Training
Doula Training
SBJN offers a 1-year doula certification training that focuses on supportive services, maternal health/disparities, and advocacy skills to support a healthy pregnancy, termination, as well as multiple birth options.
