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National Foundation for Certified Professional Midwives

The National Foundation for Certified Professional Midwives advocates for midwifery care and birth center access, ensuring families receive safe, respectful maternity care. They work to influence Medicaid policies and protect midwives' roles in healthcare.

Your gift helps protect midwifery care and birth center access for families across the country. Together, we support Certified Professional Midwives as they work for safer, more respectful pregnancy and birth care. 🤱🏽 We are raising funds to support a landmark legal effort that could establish an important precedent requiring state Medicaid programs to follow the Affordable Care Act&#39;s birth center and midwifery provisions. Congress created these federal protections to ensure Medicaid covers prenatal, labor and birth, and postpartum services provided by licensed birth centers and their state acknowledged providers. This includes CPMs, CNMs, CMs, and NDs in states where they are legally allowed. In Oregon, a group of six families are asking the Oregon Supreme Court to enforce the Affordable Care Acts requirement that state Medicaid agencies reliably cover Birth center services. This case reaches far beyond Oregon. Because the Affordable Care Act applies nationwide, the Court&#39;s interpretation could influence how Medicaid programs across the country understand and implement these federal requirements, affecting meaningful access to community-based maternity care for countless families. Your donation will help fund the legal work needed to support this case. The goal is to help establish a legal precedent that protects access to licensed birth center and midwifery care for families across the United States and could affect fair payment for midwives. Together, we can help ensure the law is interpreted as Congress originally intended, strengthen access to high-quality maternity care, and preserve birth choices for generations to come. Give today to help ensure midwifery remains a strong, recognized part of our healthcare system. NOTE: If enough money isn&#39;t raised the funds will go toward scholarships. No matter what midwifery care will be positively impacted by your donation.

Your gift helps protect midwifery care and birth center access for families across the country. Together, we support Certified Professional Midwives as they work for safer, more respectful pregnancy and birth care. 🤱🏽We are raising funds to support a landmark legal effort that could establish an important precedent requiring state Medicaid programs to follow the Affordable Care Act's birth center and midwifery provisions.Congress created these federal protections to ensure Medicaid covers prenatal, labor and birth, and postpartum services provided by licensed birth centers and their state acknowledged providers. This includes CPMs, CNMs, CMs, and NDs in states where they are legally allowed.In Oregon, a group of six families are asking the Oregon Supreme Court to enforce the Affordable Care Acts requirement that state Medicaid agencies reliably cover Birth center services.This case reaches far beyond Oregon. Because the Affordable Care Act applies nationwide, the Court's interpretation could influence how Medicaid programs across the country understand and implement these federal requirements, affecting meaningful access to community-based maternity care for countless families.Your donation will help fund the legal work needed to support this case. The goal is to help establish a legal precedent that protects access to licensed birth center and midwifery care for families across the United States and could affect fair payment for midwives.Together, we can help ensure the law is interpreted as Congress originally intended, strengthen access to high-quality maternity care, and preserve birth choices for generations to come.Give today to help ensure midwifery remains a strong, recognized part of our healthcare system.NOTE: If enough money isn't raised the funds will go toward scholarships. No matter what midwifery care will be positively impacted by your donation.

URGENT: Help Us Defend Midwifery and Birth Center Access Nationwide

Recognizing the transformational power of concordant care, the impact of limited access for Black and Indigenous people to CPM care, and the acute lack of diversity in the CPM workforce, NACPM invests in the systemic changes and the direct student aid needed to open pathways for more Black and Indigenous midwives to enter the profession and opportunities for them to build and sustain their midwifery practices.&nbsp; The National Foundation for Certified Professional Midwives is pleased to uplift the&nbsp;Tanya Khemet Taiwo Midwifery Student Scholarship Fund, an initiative to grow the number of Black and Indigenous midwives in the CPM workforce.&nbsp; This fund which was created in 2022 is a celebration of the legacy of Dr. Tanya Khemet Taiwo, as the longest-serving Black Midwife on NACPM&rsquo;s Board of Directors, as well as an exemplary community health innovator, epidemiologist, researcher, and midwifery educator. Tanya, who comes from a family tradition of midwives with a commitment to bringing the midwifery model of care to the medically underserved and those most at risk for poor birth outcomes. &nbsp; The Tanya Khemet Taiwo Midwifery Student Scholarship Fund provides support for tuition and related educational expenses to second and third year Black and Indigenous midwifery students enrolled in programs accredited by the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC).

Recognizing the transformational power of concordant care, the impact of limited access for Black and Indigenous people to CPM care, and the acute lack of diversity in the CPM workforce, NACPM invests in the systemic changes and the direct student aid needed to open pathways for more Black and Indigenous midwives to enter the profession and opportunities for them to build and sustain their midwifery practices. The National Foundation for Certified Professional Midwives is pleased to uplift the Tanya Khemet Taiwo Midwifery Student Scholarship Fund, an initiative to grow the number of Black and Indigenous midwives in the CPM workforce. This fund which was created in 2022 is a celebration of the legacy of Dr. Tanya Khemet Taiwo, as the longest-serving Black Midwife on NACPM’s Board of Directors, as well as an exemplary community health innovator, epidemiologist, researcher, and midwifery educator. Tanya, who comes from a family tradition of midwives with a commitment to bringing the midwifery model of care to the medically underserved and those most at risk for poor birth outcomes. The Tanya Khemet Taiwo Midwifery Student Scholarship Fund provides support for tuition and related educational expenses to second and third year Black and Indigenous midwifery students enrolled in programs accredited by the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC).

Tanya Khemet Taiwo Midwifery Student Scholarship

The United States faces a critical and urgent need to make the benefits of midwifery care available to all families in every state and every community. NACPM&#39;s central mission is to actualize a primary maternity care system in our country where all birthing people have access to care through a midwife, where the birthplace is the family&#39;s choice, and where all parents and babies have the same chance to thrive. Thanks to donors like you, NACPM continues to make strides toward a safer and more equitable perinatal health system. Your contribution will make it possible for NACPM to continue to advocate for policymakers to legalize midwifery, federally recognize all credentialed midwives, reimburse midwives equitably, fund accredited midwifery education programs and establish a more representative midwifery workforce. Please Note: The National Foundation for Certified Professional Midwives is NACPM&#39;s Fiscal Sponsor and they make it possible for your donations to NACPM to be tax deductible.&nbsp;

The United States faces a critical and urgent need to make the benefits of midwifery care available to all families in every state and every community. NACPM's central mission is to actualize a primary maternity care system in our country where all birthing people have access to care through a midwife, where the birthplace is the family's choice, and where all parents and babies have the same chance to thrive. Thanks to donors like you, NACPM continues to make strides toward a safer and more equitable perinatal health system.Your contribution will make it possible for NACPM to continue to advocate for policymakers to legalize midwifery, federally recognize all credentialed midwives, reimburse midwives equitably, fund accredited midwifery education programs and establish a more representative midwifery workforce.Please Note: The National Foundation for Certified Professional Midwives is NACPM's Fiscal Sponsor and they make it possible for your donations to NACPM to be tax deductible.

National Association of Certified Professional Midwives Capital Funds Campaign

Los Estados Unidos enfrenta una necesidad cr&iacute;tica y urgente de hacer que los beneficios de la atenci&oacute;n de parteras est&eacute;n disponibles para todas las familias en cada estado y cada comunidad. La misi&oacute;n central de NACPM es hacer realidad un sistema de atenci&oacute;n primaria materna en nuestro pa&iacute;s donde todas las personas que dan a luz tengan acceso a atenci&oacute;n a trav&eacute;s de una partera, donde el lugar de nacimiento sea la elecci&oacute;n de la familia, y donde todos los padres y beb&eacute;s tengan la misma oportunidad de prosperar. Gracias a donantes como usted, NACPM contin&uacute;a avanzando hacia un sistema de salud perinatal m&aacute;s seguro y equitativo. Su contribuci&oacute;n har&aacute; posible que NACPM contin&uacute;e abogando ante los responsables de pol&iacute;ticas para legalizar la parter&iacute;a, reconocer federalmente a todas las parteras acreditadas, reembolsar equitativamente a las parteras, financiar programas de educaci&oacute;n en parter&iacute;a acreditados y establecer una fuerza laboral de parter&iacute;a m&aacute;s representativa. Nota: La Fundaci&oacute;n Nacional de Parteras Profesionales Certificadas es el Patrocinador Fiscal de NACPM y hace posible que sus donaciones a NACPM sean deducibles de impuestos.&nbsp;

Los Estados Unidos enfrenta una necesidad crítica y urgente de hacer que los beneficios de la atención de parteras estén disponibles para todas las familias en cada estado y cada comunidad. La misión central de NACPM es hacer realidad un sistema de atención primaria materna en nuestro país donde todas las personas que dan a luz tengan acceso a atención a través de una partera, donde el lugar de nacimiento sea la elección de la familia, y donde todos los padres y bebés tengan la misma oportunidad de prosperar. Gracias a donantes como usted, NACPM continúa avanzando hacia un sistema de salud perinatal más seguro y equitativo.Su contribución hará posible que NACPM continúe abogando ante los responsables de políticas para legalizar la partería, reconocer federalmente a todas las parteras acreditadas, reembolsar equitativamente a las parteras, financiar programas de educación en partería acreditados y establecer una fuerza laboral de partería más representativa.Nota: La Fundación Nacional de Parteras Profesionales Certificadas es el Patrocinador Fiscal de NACPM y hace posible que sus donaciones a NACPM sean deducibles de impuestos.

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URGENT: Help Us Defend Midwifery and Birth Center Access Nationwide

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URGENT: Help Us Defend Midwifery and Birth Center Access Nationwide

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Tanya Khemet Taiwo Midwifery Student Scholarship

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