Birth Detroit & Neighborhood Birth Center

For the better part of the last 2 years, we have been connecting regularly with birth justice leaders in Detroit who are also working to launch the city's first birth center, Birth Detroit. Our partnership is centered on the shared understanding that to advance equity, we must reintegrate the heart into our work and transform the relationships, practices, policies, and systems that maintain inequities, beginning with our own practices and extending across institutions and in this case, across cities. We have an exciting goal for 2020 (for which we are actively grant writing!): Teams from Birth Detroit and Neighborhood Birth Center plan to convene our teams in a retreat, co-creating space for healing, wellness, and emergence. In addition to the technical and emotional support shared across the staff and volunteers charged with the sustainability of these nonprofit startups, we will also engage consultants and partner organizations such as other women of color led birth center start ups and national organizations committed to perinatal health and health equity.

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