EBB 92 - Impacts of the Community Birth Worker Model with Aza Nedhari

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I am joined by Aza Nedhari, co-founder and executive director of Mamatoto Village, a non-profit training and deploying community health workers to support women through pregnancy, childbirth, and the first months of parenting. Nearly 90 percent of the organization’s clients are African American women who, as a group, suffer dramatically worse maternal health outcomes than other women. Aza pioneered the organization’s comprehensive perinatal health worker training, which uses the community health worker model as a blueprint for creating pathways for women of color in human services and maternal health professions.

Aza is a midwife and family counselor, and is currently pursuing her doctorate in human services. With a concentration in organizational leadership and management, her goal is to cultivate innovative models of perinatal care. She is also currently working on legalizing certified professional midwives in the District of Colombia.

We discuss systemic racism and barriers facing the midwifery profession in the U.S., as well as the benefits of the community birth worker model. We also talk about Aza’s extremely pivotal role in the development of my book, Babies are Not Pizzas.

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RESOURCES:

Visit the Mamatoto Village website here, or connect on Facebook, on Twitter, or Instagram.

Click here to see Advancing Birth Justice: Community-Based Doula Models as a Standard of Care for Ending Racial Disparities, from Black Mamas Matter Alliance.

Get my book Babies are Not Pizzas: They’re Born, Not Delivered, on Amazon.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Aza Ned Hari about
0:05.8	Community-based dulas and the Mama Toto Village program as well as her role in changing the focus of the book
0:12.2	Babies are Not Pizzas.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast.
0:20.0	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:24.8	Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based
0:29.2	information into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:34.0	As a reminder this information is not medical advice.
0:37.0	See EBBirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:50.0	Hi everyone today I am excited to welcome Aza Nadari to the Evidence Space Birth Podcast. Aza is a midwife, family counselor, and co-founder and executive director of Mama Toto Village,
0:56.4	a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit that trains and deploys community health workers to support
1:01.5	women through pregnancy, childbirth, in the first months of parenting.
1:05.0	Nearly 90% of Mamatota Village's clients are African American women who, as a group, suffer dramatically worse maternal health outcomes than other women.
1:13.6	As a pioneered the comprehensive perinatal health worker training,
1:17.3	which uses the community health worker model as a blueprint for creating pathways for
1:21.5	women of color in the human services in maternal health professions. for leadership in management with a goal of cultivating innovative models of
1:34.1	pyranatal care. She is also currently working on
1:36.9	legalizing certified professional midwives in the District of Columbia. As of
1:41.4	welcome to the Evidence-based birth podcast. Thank you for
1:44.2	having me. Tell us as a how did you get into birth work? So my evolution to birth
1:51.2	work or my pathway into birth work came through the birth of my own children.
1:57.0	And after having my first child, I decided to pursue being Adula after my friend who's actually also a midwife in
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