Building Resilience, Capacity, and Tools
Trauma-Informed Care for Birthworkers
Building Resilience, Capacity, and Tools
Midwives, doulas, nurses, physicians, students, and anyone working with people during pregnancy, birth and postpartum are invited to attend. Informative and eye-opening workshops cover how birthworkers can develop best practices for integrating trauma-informed care into practice, work through biases and fears around trauma, and learn universal practices that respect all experiences of trauma and traumatic stress for all people. Seven CEUs available (ACNM specialty credit has been applied for).
upcoming workshops
TIC for Birthworkers in ColoradoComing this SummerBoulder, CO, USA
TIC for Birthworkers in ArizonaTemporarily Postponed Due to Covid-19Phoenix, AZ, USA
TIC for Birthworkers in Rhode IslandSat, May 16335 Prairie Ave, Providence, RI 02905, USA
fees
Workshop Cost $100-$250
A sliding scale is a way to challenge the classist and capitalist system we live in, and work towards economic justice.
CEU Fee $25
7 continuing education credits are available. ACNM specialty credit has been applied for.
Scholarships
Three scholarships are available to birthworkers of color. Email us if you are interested.
Work Trade
Some work-trade is available. Email us for details.
facilitators
Sarah Butterfly
Sarah is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) who practices the full range of midwifery care in home and birth center settings, has been a PEP and MEAC preceptor, and a midwifery instructor. Sarah researches trauma and trauma-informed care in community midwifery. Through research and providing education, Sarah hopes that more providers will become trauma-sensitive. Her current research, at Midwives College of Utah, looks into how midwives prevent and cause trauma and how trauma affects clients, midwives, and midwifery care. Sarah is queer, white, cisgender, sometimes disabled. She loves to read, write, sew, build things, be outside, and hang with her grandbaby and her ancient feline.
Ada Johnson
Ada is a grief, trauma and transition worker. She is the founder and director of Hawthorn Grief Care which provides accompaniment, connection, and support for bereaved parents and others facing loss and grief. Ada currently offers bereavement doula services, one on one grief counseling, somatic experiencing sessions and group ritual and ceremony around grief, trauma and life transitions. Ada offers provider education on best practices in supporting parent/s during and after miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss as well as provider consults and support. Ada is the loving parent of Button, who was stillborn in January 2015, and Simon, a rainbow baby born in August of 2016.