Alaska Native Birthworkers Community

The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community is a community-based group of full spectrum Indigenous birth helpers and reproductive justice advocates organizing to reclaim Indigenous birth practices and to support Native families from preconception through postpartum with culturally-matched care.

Provide free direct services to Native birthing families; grow a cohort of trained Indigenous birthworkers to serve Native birthing families; and support systemic change for improved maternal health outcomes and positive birthing experiences for Native birthing families.

Our purpose is to promote sovereignty from first breath. We are growing a culturally matched peer model of support to serve Native birthing families so that they feel supported, well cared for, and full of the information they need to make confident choices around reproductive health, birthing, and parenthood.