Birth Center Equity

Birth Center Equity was 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). We envision a world where every community has access to a birth center. Birth Center Equity works with and for BIPOC community birth center leaders to collectively access full spectrum capital at scale, to nurture beliefs, practices, and models of abundance among community birth centers, and to build beloved communities with caregiving, regeneration, and mutuality at the heart of our health system and our economy. Our values are safety, abundance, and liberation. 

Safety - All Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) deserve safe birth spaces and safe birth care. Ensuring our safety includes healing and reparation of harm and inequity in maternal health practices, structures and systems (including inequitable access to capital) that have oppressed our communities.

Abundance - With trusted relationships and solidarity comes abundant resources to grow and sustain BIPOC community-owned and led birth infrastructure.

Liberation - To lead together in our own care is an act of liberation. Honoring birth as a sacred transformative experience at every level (individual, organization, community, culture) will transform birth culture for all.