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The Standard for Clinical Readiness in Community Birth Assisting.
Black Sisters Birth Academy® provides experienced Black birthworkers—including birth doulas, student midwives, and birth assistants—with the comprehensive clinical training necessary to work confidently alongside community midwives in out-of-hospital settings as Certified Birth Assistants.
Your Calling is Calling You Home.
The truth is, there is a growing number of us who feel the pull to move out of the hospital setting and return birth back to where it belongs: to the mother, the birthing family, and the home.
If you’ve been feeling like there has to be another way to serve—you’re right. Our community midwives need you. There is a profound demand for trained, competent assistants who can stand as a true right hand in the out-of-hospital setting.
This academy is designed specifically for:
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The Experienced Community-Based Birth Doula ready to bridge the gap between labor support and clinical assisting.
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The Student Midwife navigating the NARM PEP route and seeking a formal clinical foundation for your preceptorship.
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The Working Birth Assistant moving from "winging it" to clinical precision.
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The Clinical Transitioner—experienced L&D or Mother-Baby healthcare professionals (RN, LPN, PA, or Clinical Assistants) moving from hospital floors to community birth.
Black Sisters Birth Academy® was built because we need to return to the bedsides of our mothers and sisters. We are reclaiming the art and tradition of being with women—the way it used to be.
We understand that midwives need a skilled right hand; therefore, our curriculum is intentionally designed to provide you with the clinical competence and confidence needed before you ever step foot in a midwife’s clinical space. We already possess the ancestral remembrance we need to thrive; we simply need the clinical bridge to carry us there.
Welcome home, sis. Let’s get to work.
This work is my mission -And your Bridge Home.
Hi, I’m Christina Jemine. As a Certified Professional Midwife and former Mother-Baby nurse of six years, I know that for many of us, nursing or assisting birthing families in the hospital setting once felt like the only pathway to midwifery care. Thankfully, I found my way back home.
I founded Black Sisters Birth Academy® to build the bridge I wish I had—a comprehensive clinical training space intentionally designed for us to gain the necessary skill set to serve as a Birth Assistant. Now, I am here to help you navigate that same transition with confidence and clinical precision. You have the heart for this work; let’s ensure you have the clinical foundation to match.
Christina Jemine, LM, CPM
Christina is a Certified Professional Midwife, a devoted mother, a children's book author, and the visionary behind Black Sisters Birth Academy®. With a foundation of over a decade in maternal-child health—including six years as a Mother-Baby and Pediatric nurse at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital—she bridges the gap between advanced clinical standards and traditional birthwork for aspiring Birth Assistants seeking professional training. A graduate of the Florida School of Traditional Midwifery, Christina founded the first Black-owned birth assistant academy in the U.S. to prepare the next generation of birthworkers to lead with clinical precision and ancestral wisdom—proving that across the globe, BIRTH: It’s What We DO.
MISSION, VISION & MOTTO
Mission: To equip the next generation of Black Birth Assistants with the clinical excellence and ancestral wisdom necessary to serve our community midwives and birthing families with precision.
Vision: To build a national network of professionally trained Black Birth Assistants, ensuring every community midwife has the skilled clinical support needed to promote safer births for Black families.
Motto: BIRTH: It's What We DO.
HEAR WHAT MY PHENOMENAL GRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY
Wanda Harvey Evans
BSBA is a godsend. It is a program made for us by us; the curriculum is current and update with additional hands on learning if you choose. Midwife Christina gives great gems and nuggets and you will connect with friends for a lifetime. I gleaned a lot from her so much that looking for a preceptor or mentor or midwife I was able to be a birth assistant for two midwives.
Jamilla Adams
I enrolled in the Birth Assistant course with BSBA. It really kick started my transition from teaching to full time birth work. Christina is invested in us from application interview to well after completion. The course includes a quality foundation of knowledge.
From what is a birth assistant to medical terminology to accruing certifications needed. It helped me get a midwives assistant position and her support gave me the drive to continue on to applying to midwifery school!
Jennifer Reynoso Ng
After taking the birth assistant training, I felt ready to step into birth assisting with confidence. I now assist two midwives at home births!! Thank you for answering your call and preparing black women like me to step into this role!
Ama Grant
I promise you will leave feeling confident, feeling trusting in your skills, in your education and your ability most of all to be a birth assistant.
Amoin Chantel F Kra
Midwife Christina gave me mentorship, structure and a training that are both clinical and ancestral wisdom. I feel more confident. I feel more grounded supporting clients through births and also integrating this work into my own healing practice.
Melody Cunningham-Lopez
Firstly, it was catered to me...I was completely armed with all of the tools that I needed to effectively help my midwife and to be there for the mothers who are having their babies.