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The purpose of our Birth Justice Center is clear
Establish
Establish
Establish
To establish a neighborhood birth and wellness center that will offer a variety of engaging options for perinatal health and holistic care.
Develop
Establish
Establish
To develop the birth center to serve as a community hub to provide a host of educational services and training.
Generate
Establish
Generate
To generate revenue through contractual leases with values aligned partners such as other health care providers, community organizations, and allied services
Ensure
Establish
Generate
To ensure access to midwives in maternity care deserts across South Florida through our Midwife Mobile Clinic.
Mitigate
Sustainability
Mitigate
To mitigate the impact of recent hospital closures of labor and delivery units in communities of color in Miami Dade County
Expand
Sustainability
Mitigate
To expand partnerships and community engagement in order to raise our collective voices, speaking truth to power about the policies that impact our health and our lives.
Community
Sustainability
Sustainability
• Yoga
• Massage
• Acupuncture
• Chiropractor
• Physician
• Lactation counselor
• Wellness coach
• Ultrasound
• Community Classes in communal meeting space.
Sustainability
Sustainability
Sustainability
To sustain access to doula and midwifery care by building the workforce of birth workers locally and nationally
What is a Birth Center?
A birth center is both a clinic for women’s wellness, prenatal and postpartum visits and a location where a birthing person can experience a low intervention and statistically safer vaginal birth with midwife support.
Birth centers can also be so much more! A freestanding birth and wellness center would mean so much to our local communities.
Birth centers are:
- Essential
- State-licensed
- Staffed by midwives
- Covered by insurance including Medicaid
- A hub for learning and liberation
- A space for holistic practices that heal us
- A site to protect cultural wellness and wholeness
Birth centers provide:
- Safety and support to those who need it most
- A way to engage with niche cultural offerings for mamas and families
- Green space connecting wellness to nature
- A variety of options for optimal health care and well-being.
What is a Midwife?
Midwife means “with woman.” Midwives are independent care providers for pregnant people. Midwives are the experts in healthy pregnancy and physiologic birth.
Midwives help women and communities understand the importance of education, health, nutrition, healing and control over one’s own body.
Midwifery care has a rich history in communities of color, particularly in the Southern region of the US. Black midwives traditionally provided care for their communities during the harshest times in history: slavery, Jim- crow, and Civil Rights eras.
Why does midwifery care matter?
Our model, Black Midwives Care, is designed to meet the needs of pregnant, birthing and postpartum Black mothers/parents. The Black Midwives Care model is composed of the essential elements that Black midwives have provided to their communities for many generations. It includes respecting racial identity, incorporating cultural elements, connecting with holistic practitioners and being an advocate, among other strategies.
This model is centered around Black mamas, on the realities of our lives. For example, acknowledging that it is essential that health care providers give special attention to building trust. The historical exploitation and abuse of Black folks in the medical industrial complex has implications for health outcomes. There is a dire need for respectful, anti-racist care grounded in an understanding of Birth Justice, in the traditions of Black midwives.
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