Journey Midwife Services

03/12/2026

✨ Laying Down Stories: A birth story processing workshop for BIPOC birthing folx and families

Join Center for Indigenous Midwifery and Blue Cactus Press for Laying Down Stories: a writing and emotional processing workshop for BIPOC families and birthing folx.

This workshop is offered in two iterations:
💻 VIRTUAL: March 24th, from 11am to 1pm.
📝 IN-PERSON: April 7th, from 10 - 11:30am in Tacoma (1901 Jefferson Ave, #105, Tacoma, WA).

➡️ Registration is free and required! Participants can expect to engage in guided writing prompts, verbal storytelling and witnessing exercises, and somatic writing exercises focused on releasing energy and emotions surrounding birth experiences.

The workshop will be facilitated by Chris Vega, a writer, storyteller, and local publisher at , with content created in collaboration with birth workers from Center for Indigenous Midwifery.

📧 To register, email Chris Vega at bluecactuspress@gmail.com with “Workshop Registration: Laying Down Stories” in the subject line, and specify which workshop iteration you would like to attend.

03/06/2026

We are excited to invite you to our Quarterly Community Event to discuss, taste and participate in live demos on Indigenous First Foods!

🗓️ Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 12pm - 4pm
📍 Duwamish Longhouse, 4705 W Marginal Way SW, Seattle, WA, 98106

Our guest speaker, Jodall Mattson of Wild Hearts Farm will share stories and easy to prepare healthy Indigenous recipes

Our doulas will host a relaxing lactation lounge to celebrate our most important first food - OUR MILK MEDICINE

It’ll be a fun night of delicious and educational Indigenous food demos, community resources, recipe cards, and data reflection activities.

🔗 LINK TO REGISTER: https://bit.ly/HIFSFamilyReunion

03/02/2026

We’re hiring ✨

Shades of Divinity is growing — and we’re looking for leaders who believe in culturally centered, community-rooted maternal health care.

We’re hiring for:

• Maternal Health Clinic Program Manager
• Maternal Health Clinic Project Coordinator

🗓 Term: April 2026 – March 2027
📍 Primarily Remote
📍 Supporting two maternal health community pop-up clinics in Pierce & South King Counties

This is an opportunity to be part of an innovative maternal health project designed to expand access, center culture, and bring care directly into our communities.

If you’re passionate about reproductive justice, advancing health equity, and serving Black, Native, and other BIPOC birthing folx — this is your chance to help build something transformative with us.

Scan the QR code or click the link below!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqtdx-gLxnYJ0FaQ8j7VJU910Ke2HYlMxi9UJVQ8mt23b9ZQ/viewform?usp=header

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02/25/2026

Excited to talk with Erykah Badu on postpartum traditions, from “Mothering the Mother
So honored that she wrote the foreword for my book .
Join us as we talk about how to implement African American postpartum care. Please share.

02/23/2026

📣Priority Deadline is March 1st! We’re Hiring!

Perinatal Support Washington is looking for passionate people to join our team and support families across Washington in the perinatal period!

We currently have openings for:
✨Peer Support Specialist – Supporting Perinatal Loss Families
✨Peer Support Specialist – Supporting East African Families
✨Peer Support Specialist – Supporting Latinx/Spanish-Speaking Families

These roles are all about providing compassionate, relationship-based support, lived experience, and culturally responsive care to parents and caregivers during pregnancy, the postpartum period, and beyond. No professional clinical credentials required for peer support roles—just heart, empathy, and a desire to make a difference.

📩Interested? Learn more and apply by sending your resume and cover letter as directed on our website https://perinatalsupport.org/join-our-team/

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02/21/2026

A tradition rooted in care and community

Mark your calendars 🌙

Our Annual Community Iftar is happening March 6, and we’re so excited to gather once again.

This evening is about connection, culture, care, and community. Whether you observe Ramadan or simply wish to be part of something meaningful, you are invited.

Seats are limited, reserve yours at the link in our bio.

02/20/2026

REMINDER: THIS WEEKEND is our childbirth education class for our quarterly series. This course centers our pregnant Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Kānaka Maoli, Indigenous Pasfika/Pacific Islander relatives.

Fireweed Connections is excited to partner with our very own, LeChanté Raiwalui (Fijian/Black Doula and HIFS Emotional Wellness Bestie). She will be accompanied by our amazing Birthkeeper, Dichela Ueki (Belauan) for skills share. 🤎

📍This *2-day workshop* will be held at the Hummingbird office in Columbia City. (Address is in the registration link.)

🗓️ Saturday and Sunday, December 20th & 21st

⏰10 AM – 2 PM

🍴Lunch will be provided and various parent and baby gifts will be given at the end of each day.

🪑Space is limited to 10 pregnant individuals. Partners and/or supporters are strongly encouraged to participate in this workshop.

Link to Register: https://bit.ly/ChildbirthEdClass

02/19/2026

Apologies for the *very late* notice - but we have a few spots open for a very rad workshop at Open Arms Perinatal Services with an incredible educator, Bryna Hayden IBCLC, for BIPOC lactation professionals - IBCLCs or advanced level lactation providers who are managing clinical care and mammary health. Reach out to me ASAP for confirmation and details! No cost, breakfast and lunch included.

02/12/2026

11/20/2025

Our Thimbleberry Herbal Series for BIPOC & Indigenous Families is happening today!

Join us for this family centered event to learn about the immune boosting power of elderberries, so needed for this season.

Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKblGOPdJ_3ClbE4V3r9raGJBu2fJu2V4JeSlrT8qa7YPSxw/viewform?pli=1