BCE Network Stories
Mark Your Calendars for Birth Center Week!
Please join with the Birth Center Equity Network to celebrate the first annual Birth Center Week this September 14-20! (Look for all Birth Center Week offerings in Spanish, coming soon!) The theme of Birth Center Week 2023...
Midwifery Innovation Thrives in El Paso
In El Paso, Texas, where Luna Tierra Casa de Partos is located, midwifery’s community roots run deep. “A lot of people in our community were born with midwives,” says Lina Garcia, Luna Tierra midwife and co-founder, pointing...
Birth Center Equity Members Celebrate First-Ever Gathering!
On April 24-25th, nearly 60 Birth Center Equity network members came together from across the country to New Orleans, LA for our first-ever in person gathering, “Birthing Beloved Economy.” Held at the Black-woman owned NOPSI...
San Diego Community Birth Center Thrives on Collaboration
This month, the County of San Diego awarded San Diego Community Birth Center a proclamation honoring their work during Black Maternal Health Awareness week. “We are the only all women of color Black owned birth center in San Diego County!”...
Centro MAM Grows Community Birthing in Puerto Rico
“Our approach to birthing is about so much more than birth,” says Vanessa Calderi, midwife and founder/director of Centro MAM: Mujeres Ayudando a Madres (Women Helping Mothers), the only community perinatal center in Puerto Rico. “We help...
Neighborhood Birth Center Emerging in Boston Liberatory Space
For years, movement leaders in Boston have longed for a physical space where they could co-locate their offices, deepen their relationships, and practice collaboration and cooperation to manifest a just and liberated future. From this...
Racial Justice Spurs Atlanta Birth Center Evolution
The year 2020 – when anger at long-standing police violence boiled over with the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery – is often called America’s racial reckoning. An estimated 15 to 26 million...
Black Led Birth Center Overcoming Barriers in Texas
For Ashley Greene, her dream of opening a community birth center flows from her own experience with hospital birth, where she was coaxed into fear-based decisions that caused her physical and emotional harm. “It was...
Black-Led Community Birth Center Coming to Durham, North Carolina
Tina Braimah, CNM, CPM, the founder of Sankofa Birth and Women’s Care, has earned the trust and respect of birthing people and institutions in North Carolina for her work providing safe and accessible home birth. In...
Washington Community Birth Center Expands Birthing & Community Capacity
Less than a year after opening, Community Birth Center (CBC) in Lacey, Washington, is now doubling their birthing capacity, bringing their clinic and birthing services under one roof, and increasing the space they can offer for community...
Rainier Valley Birth & Health Center Expands to Another Community!
When BCE Capital Circle member Tara Lawal (Rainier Valley Birth & Health Center) heard that one of the busiest birth centers in Washington was looking for new ownership, it felt like a dream come true....
BCE Member News | June 2022
KindredSpiritLA began construction on their new birthing site in May! Congratulations on achieving this extraordinary milestone! Click here to see their Instagram post! Birth Detroit Releases New Report: Check out “We Are Not Asking Permission to Save Our Own Lives”,...