Birth Equity & Reproductive Justice
Our Birth Equity and Reproductive Justice Bundle consists of the following programs…
Sacred Community Birthworker Training
Collective Birth Fund
Xilonen Coming of Age Ceremonies
Birthworker Support
Mutual Aid for Birthing Families
Supporting birth outcomes and healing through traditional knowledge and ancestral teachings
In honoring our elders & knowledge keepers, we find it necessary to provide common definitions to collectively recognize the significance and distinct roles of those that carry and reproduce knowledge. Cihuapactli Collective, therefore recognizes and defines the following terms: Comadrona, Matrona, Traditional/Indigenous/Native Ancestral Partera/Midwife, Birthworker or Comadre/Comadrite, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal, Native & First Nations.
Sacred Community Birthworker Training
ADHS Approved
After years of supporting each other through pregnancy and postpartum periods, we decided to come together in community in 2022 and create the Sacred Community Birthworker Training. A long labor of love, this training has provided a space of ancestral knowledge and resources for people that show up as doulas for members in their communities.
Since 2024 this training is approved through the Arizona Department of Health Services as a credited curriculum for doulas to apply for voluntary state licensing to be paid through medicaid. Instrumental to our community, being able to provide education by the people for the people so mothers can receive the culturally competent care they deserve.
Collective Birth Fund
The Collective Birth Fund came at a time when we witnessed a need for individuals to receive culturally comprehensive care. Often times they were individuals who were not directly tied to a community that could support them or individuals who were lacking resources to help them have proper healing and rest during such a sacred time. With the help of many funders, we’ve been able to provide funds for pregnant and postpartum mothers that go directly to BIPOC doulas and midwives in the community to support them in their healing often preventing death and illness.