Storytelling About Indigenous Midwives of North America
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May 28, 2024
3 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern time
All Proceeds Support the Indigenous Midwife Project
Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics
Welcome to a presentation about the past, present and future of indigenous midwives in the United States, Mexico and Canada, and the importance of recognizing the existence and importance of indigenous midwives.
Marinah Farrell, Director of Indigenous Birth will discuss why the re-indigenizing midwifery for all traditional communities, and the recognition of the history of midwifery. in the United States, is critical to understanding of the United States decimation of midwifery and its impact on communities of color, the resilience of midwives, and the need for creating systems of health that include traditional medicine and ceremony as a path to greater healing.
- Date: May 28, 2024
- Time: 3 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern time
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This is a Fundraiser for the Indigenous Midwife Training Project to train indigenous midwives in the prevention and treatment of birth trauma. Poor birth outcomes for indigenous people are the highest of all the outcomes, with morbidity rates up 350%. (JAMA 2023) Our hope is to mitigate this rate by training midwives who attend birthing parents and their families. One midwife explained to us "We are ground zero."
This training is for practitioners who are interested in working with families who have difficult births, babies and with adults who have prenatal and perinatal trauma patterns.
Thank you for being a part of the change we need for indigenous people!
Your Instructor
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Marinah V. Farrell is currently the Director of Organizational Wellness for Birth Center Equity, an organization created to make birth center care an option in every community, by growing and sustaining birth centers led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Marinah is also the owner of Phoenix Midwife, a longstanding midwifery practice, and the founder of Indigenous Birth, an umbrella organization for diverse advocacy and health justice projects.
Marinah has worked with and directed many Indigenous and BIPOC health justice projects, developing clinical, organizational, and regional birth justice initiatives in Arizona, New Mexico and nationally. These initiatives include indigenous reproductive healthcare access, community-based education, organizational wellness, ancestral healing, and student/workforce development. These experiences inspired Marinah to certify in somatic healing work (completing in 2022) to better understand the role of trauma in communities and organizations of color as a fundamental resource for radical change. |