Grow Birth Centers Bay Area Briefing
September 17, 2024 @ 4:00PM — 7:00PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Oakstop: 2323 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612 Get Directions
Join us at the Bay Area Grow Birth Centers Briefing!
Join Birth Center Equity, Birthland Midwifery, and Orchid Capital Collective for a vibrant discussion of ways to grow innovative solutions for perinatal health through supporting the work of birth centers stewarded by Black, Indigenous, people of color.
The Grow Birth Centers Bay Area Briefing aims to inspire and support foundations, donors, investors and collaborators to make informed strategic investments and accelerate innovative strategies to advance optimal maternal infant health through sustainable community care infrastructure.
We invite you to join in expanding our mutual understanding of the crucial role philanthropy and investing play in growing birth center infrastructure to support thriving birthing people, babies, and communities of color.
In this session, we will discuss the growth of a Black, Indigenous, people of color-led birth center ecosystem and the strategic supports needed now and into the future to scale this work. We will explore key links between birth outcomes, perinatal safety, and childhood development as indicators of community wellness and collective care.
This event will feature national and local innovations being piloted in communities most impacted by medical bias and perinatal health disparities. Birth Center Equity leaders Leseliey Welch, Diana Derige, and Jess Gutfreund, Birthland Founder and Executive Director Kiki Jordan, and Orchid Capital Collective Founder and Director Tenesha Duncan will explore how current narratives of maternal health ‘crisis’ can and must be evolved toward strategies for abundance, safety, and liberation for Black, Indigenous, communities of color.
Participants will walk away with a working knowledge of how Birth Center Equity, Birthland Midwifery and our network of 40+ Black, Indigenous, people of color-led birth center projects are poised to scale effective models of perinatal healthcare and lead healthcare innovation into the future.