Birth Emergency Skills

Empowered care for every community.

This hands-on community workshop, created in partnership with Ujimaa Medics, teaches practical birth emergency skills so you can support birthing people with confidence, calm, and care before professional help arrives.

  • Birth Emergency Skills prepares community members to respond with compassion and skill during unexpected birth emergencies.

    Participants learn:

    • Grounding, consent, and communication skills during emergencies

    • Signs of normal, emergent, and emergency births

    • How to provide support safely until professional help arrives

    • Collective care principles to center calm, safety, and dignity

    This class is open to all — birth workers, caregivers, and anyone who wants to be a confident, empowered bystander.

  • We all have the capacity to protect, support, and uplift each other. Birth Emergency Skills helps build networks of safety and support across the South Side, strengthening the circle of care that surrounds every birthing person.

  • This is not a training to become a doula, midwife, doctor, paramedic, EMT, or “medic." Instead, it’s a community skill share that centers on how to be an empowered bystander—offering care, reassurance, and stability until professional medical help arrives, or a safe birthing space is reached.

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