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Are you an experienced Black birth worker or healthcare professional seeking a proven pathway to bridge the gap between your current expertise and the specialized clinical skills needed to work alongside community midwives? If so, you're in the right place.
Black Sisters Birth Academy®
Black Sisters Birth Academy® provides experienced birth workers with the comprehensive clinical training necessary to confidently support 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.
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If you’ve been feeling like there has to be another way to serve, you’re right. There are other options where you can safely care for mothers and babies outside of the hospital setting. It’s time to return birth to the healers and back to the hands of women. It is time to return to bodily autonomy.
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Black Sisters Birth Academy® was built because our community needs safe spaces now more than ever. We are here to hold sacred space for the birth experience and for the women who carry it. Despite the barriers and the statistics we see every day, we are resilient—we are built for this. We already have everything we need to thrive and succeed.​
We are providing a place for you to call HOME.
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We are bringing the tradition of birth back to the community and back to the birthing family. By supporting community midwifery care, we are awakening our conscious remembrance of a simple truth: Birth: It’s what we do.
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Whether you are a nurse ready to transition your clinical skills to support community midwifery care or an experienced doula answering a higher call, this is your invitation to join the movement. Your search for where you fit is over. Now, time to come back to where you belong.
Welcome home, sis. Let's Get To Work.
This work is my mission -And your Bridge Home.
Hi, I’m Christina Jemine. As a Licensed, 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.
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I founded Black Sisters Birth Academy® to build the bridge I wish I had—a comprehensive clinical training space intentionally designed for us. Whether you are an RN ready to transition your skills or an experienced birth doula seeking clinical mastery to work confidently alongside community midwives, welcome home, sis.​
​Let's get to work.
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!
MISSION, VISION & MOTTO
Mission: To train and certify more Black birth assistants, equipped to support community midwives competently with births in out-of-hospital settings through our comprehensive curriculum-based programs.
Vision: To increase the number of professionally trained Black birth assistants nationwide who work alongside community midwives to promote safer births for Black families outside of the hospital setting.
Motto: BIRTH: It's What We DO.
HEAR WHAT MY PHENOMENAL GRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY
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.
