Birth Emergency Skills
Empowered care for every community.
Saturday, April 11th | 3PM - 6PM
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.
About the Workshop
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Birth emergency skills prepares community members to respond with compassion and skill during unexpected birth emergencies.
Participants will learn:
Grounding and communication skills for emergency situations
Signs of normal, emergent, and emergency births
How to provide support safely until professional help arrives
Collective care principles to center calm, safety, consent, and dignity
This offering is free, with a suggested donation of $15-$35. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Birth Emergency Skills is open to all – birthworkers, caregivers, and anyone who wants to be a confident, empowered bystander.
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Maternal health and birth equity are strengthened when community care becomes the norm.
This workshop helps build networks of safety, response, and support across the South Side, so that every birthing family is surrounded by a circle of care in unexpected situations.
We all have the capacity to protect, support, and uplift one another. Every person counts.
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This offering is a community skillshare 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.
This is not a training to become a doula, midwife, paramedic, EMT, or “medic.”
Meet Ujimaa Medics
Ujimaa Medics (UMedics) is a Black health collective. We spread emergency first response, community care, and survival skills to access health justice and long-term wellness for all Black lives.
Vision: We envision a world where Black people are free to practice the principle of “Ujima” (collective work and responsibility) by fostering resilience and a self-determined culture of health within our communities. We will stay ready to protect one another in a more just world.
CSSBC is honored to be in partnership with Ujimaa Medics for our Birth Emergency Skills workshop series. Learn more about Ujimaa Medics here.
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Birth Emergency Skills is an ongoing class. Sign up to get updates about upcoming sessions and other community education offerings.