Doulas

The mission of the Childbirth Collective is to enhance birth experiences by promoting quality professional doula support, advocating evidence-based care, and educating pregnant families and birth professionals who support the wellness model of perinatal care by creating spaces to connect with the community, and each other. The organization is a collective of birth professionals who support birthing people and families during the childbearing year.

The Ostara Initiative is a women-founded and women-led, hybrid, non-profit organization based in Minnesota and Alabama. They believe in solutions rather than problems or people management. The organization searches for solutions in the soil, seed, and root of its communities, government, and institutions. The Ostara Initiative’s work challenges the ​destructive tendencies of for-profit prisons and related businesses as well as the chasm between the carceral state and community-based support.