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Midwifery School Enrollment

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I am Sumayyah Franklin. I wear many hats.


Doula, teacher, artist, dancer, fashionista, thrifter, comedian, thinker, but mostly I am a student. I know for a fact I was put on this earth to learn.To break boundaries and pave new paths by not being afraid to unlearn old ways and make room for innovation. The medium I am called to do this through is the sacred art of Midwifery.


A midwife is someone who is trained in skills that provide her with the expertise in assisting a woman throughout her pregnancy including the delivery and postpartum period. This is only the skeleton however because midwives also provide care in ways that help maintain optimal health including paps, STD/STI screening and testing, and at home inseminations to name a few. The midwife is a traditional practitioner who provides care to woman and infants.


I am choosing to enroll into the National College of Midwifery. This is the most cost effective institution as well as supports me in completing the apprenticeship model of studying midwifery. There is a disproportinate number of licensed Black midwives  offering care in California compared to white midwives.It is important that we have care providers who are competent and reflect the population(s) that they are serving. Black Infants and birthing people have the worst birthing outcomes in America--More than double that of their white counterparts.


I am committed to improving these outcomes by making the midwifery model of care accessible to populations who otherwise would not be able to access it.


The National College of Midwifery is a distance learning program based in New Mexico. This school is accredited by the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council ( MEAC) and therefore allows me to gain licensure once I complete the program. Once i am enrolled into shooI I may then be able to continue my dream of becoming a midwife by seeking to work with some veteran and skilled midwives.  This will give me the opportunity to learn from a skilled midwife, experience volume ( which creates a skilled midwife), and to work with a diverse population.


PRICE OF SCHOOL:

At the National College of Midwifery there is one flat fee of $5,000. Books are an estimated $2,000. I will be offering a community doula training as a way to raise the additional funds.




***ALL FUNDS RAISED WILL BE GOING DIRECTLY TOWARDS ENROLLING INTO NCM and obtaining the required reading material and textbooks***



Some Sources of information:

http://www.midwiferycollege.org/Pay.html<<< Fee's for the school i will be enrolling in National College of Midwifery

http://www.mbc.ca.gov/Licensees/Midwives/midwives_practice_guidelines.pdf <<<<<<<Practice guidlines of Liscensed midwives in California

http://intensehigh.com/black-midwifery/ <<<<<<<If You Would LIke to Learn More about The Sate of Black Midwifery in this country
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Sumayyah Franklin
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Oakland, CA

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