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Are you an aspiring Black community midwife or aspiring Black birth assistant seeking for a proven pathway to work with community midwives competently and confidently while attending births in out-of-hospital settings? If so, you're in the right place.
Black Sisters Birth Academy®
Black Sisters Birth Academy® trains aspiring Black community midwives and aspiring Black birth assistants to become certified birth assistants to community midwives attending births in out-of-hospital settings through our proven step-by-step curriculum-based programs intentionally designed with them in mind.
Why Black Sisters Birth Academy®
The truth is, a growing number of aspiring Black community midwives and aspiring Black birth assistants who want to work outside the hospital setting are looking for Black-led midwifery assistant trainings that will teach them how to work with community midwives and our birthing families.
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They are looking to learn in a space with women who look like them and have similar lived experiences as they do.
They are looking to reconnect and reclaim the natural birthing experience for themselves and for our mothers and babies.
They are looking for a place to call HOME.
Black Sisters Birth Academy® was created for you, the aspiring Black community midwife and the aspiring Black birth assistant, to have a safe place to call home; to build your skill set as you learn to work side-by-side with community midwives as a birth assistant.
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A birth assistant (also known as a midwife's assistant) is one who is specifically trained to assist a community midwife with births in out-of-hospital settings (home and / free-standing birth center settings).
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Birth assisting is a natural first step into midwifery care.
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If you are being called to join this movement and return Back to Birth
Join Us Now at Black Sisters Birth Academy®.
This work is my mission.
Hi, I'm Christina Jemine, a licensed, Certified Professional Midwife dedicated to training the next generation of Black birth assistants in the art of birth assisting. I founded Black Sisters Birth Academy® to provide aspiring Black community midwives and aspiring Black birth assistants with a dedicated training space intentionally designed for them to develop their skills and profession.
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You might be wondering "WHY" did I create Black Sisters Birth Academy®? Well, for one, when I became a midwife, I was in search of any Black-led birth assistant training program to train my own birth assistant and the options weren’t there. I’ve learnt for myself if you don’t see what you want, build it. So I did.
In the Summer of 2019, I created a birth assistant workshop training, initially thinking it was a one time event. Clearly, God had other plans for me. The souls I met from that workshop literally moved me to create a place for us to call our own. In response to the growing demand for more training opportunities, I created Black Sisters Birth Academy®. In no way was this calling easy, BUT It was necessary, and I was committed to answering the call.
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Since its inception, Black Sisters Birth Academy® has become the first and only Black-owned and led birth assistant academy in the U.S. We have successfully trained and certified birth assistants across the nation, from California to Arkansas, enabling them to work confidently alongside community midwives to show and prove that BIRTH: It's What We DO.
It is my mission to help you amplify your ancestral gift as a birth assistant through our comprehensive, curriculum-based programs. Together, we will unearth your skills to support our community midwives and birthing families.
Our programs are effective and serve as a natural first step into midwifery care for those ready to become birth assistants. This path requires commitment. If you are not prepared to do the work you are called to do, please do not apply. For those who are committed, welcome home, sis. Let's get to work.
MISSION, VISION & MOTTO
Mission: To train and certify more Black birth assistants, equipped to support community midwives competently with births in out-of-hospital settings through our comprehensive curriculum-based programs.
Vision: To increase the number of professionally trained Black birth assistants nationwide who work alongside community midwives to promote safer births for Black families outside of the hospital setting.
Motto: BIRTH: It's What We DO.
HEAR WHAT MY PHENOMENAL GRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY
Wanda Harvey Evans
BSBA is a godsend. It is a program made for us by us; the curriculum is current and update with additional hands on learning if you choose. Midwife Christina gives great gems and nuggets and you will connect with friends for a lifetime... I gleaned a lot from her so much that looking for a preceptor or mentor or midwife I was able to be a birth assistant for two midwives.
Jamilla Adams
I enrolled in the Birth Assistant course with BSBA. It really kick started my transition from teaching to full time birth work. Christina is invested in us from application interview to well after completion. The course includes a quality foundation of knowledge.
From what is a birth assistant to medical terminology to accruing certifications needed. It helped me get a midwives assistant position and her support gave me the drive to continue on to applying to midwifery school!
Jennifer Reynoso Ng
After taking the birth assistant training, I felt ready to step into birth assisting with confidence. I now assist two midwives at home births!! Thank you for answering your call and preparing black women like me to step into this role!
HEAR WHAT MY PHENOMENAL GRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY
Ama Grant
I promise you will leave feeling confident, feeling trusting in your skills, in your education and your ability most of all to be a birth assistant.
Amoin Chantel F Kra
Midwife Christina gave me mentorship, structure and a training that are both clinical and ancestral wisdom. I feel more confident. I feel more grounded supporting clients through births and also integrating this work into my own healing practice.
Melody Cunningham-Lopez
Firstly, it was catered to me...I was completely armed with all of the tools that I needed to effectively help my midwife and to be there for the mothers who are having their babies.
