Crisis Response for Birth Workers Workshop
A Project LETS + BADT collaboration
2024 Workshop Dates
Saturday, November 9
@ 1:00-5:00pm EST
A visually impaired Black person uses a safety rail to guide themself onto a bus. They are wearing a work uniform, head wrap, and prescription glasses. The scene is set at a sheltered bus stop.
Artwork by Sherm for Disabled and Here.
Reproductive and parenting experiences can be transformative and triggering experiences for the folks we work with.
Whether or not our clients identify as mentally ill, Disabled or neuro divergent, anyone is capable of experiencing a mental health crisis — and it’s on us as birth workers and community care professionals to have tools to support them without relying on carceral systems that may further harm our clients.
This workshop is available for new doulas and care workers, and experienced professionals.
*Corrective captioning provided for replays of live sessions. Additional prerecorded materials include automated captioning.*
General Information
The information, skills, and resources presented during this training have been developed by folks who have lived experience of mental illness/madness, trauma, neurodivergence, and psychiatric hospitalization/incarceration. Topics include:
harm reduction
care without cops
priorities in a crisis situation
de-escalation
alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization
safety planning
suicide/self-harm
altered states; maximizing autonomy, and setting boundaries.
Automated CC in English provided, please send an email to info@birthingadvocacy.org for other accessibility needs.
Materials will be available on our learning platform for 90 days from the date of your purchase..
Registration includes access to our private online community.
$45
Crisis Response for Birth Workers Workshop
Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu
Facilitator
Stefanie (they/she) is the Director of Project LETS, a national grassroots organization led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness, Disability, trauma, and neurodivergence. Their work specializes in building peer support collectives and community mental health care structures outside of state-sanctioned systems of “care” -- grounded in principles of anti-racism and Disability/ Transformative/ Healing Justice.
As a skilled facilitator and curriculum developer, they have led hundreds of trainings across various sectors for students and practitioners. They have also served as a consultant for mental health policies, program development, and accessibility. As a queer, mad, Disabled, neurodivergent human with lived experience of psychiatric incarceration, they are an active community organizer invested in disrupting multiple systems which disproportionately discriminate, harm, and kill our community members worldwide.
Cory, @thesexpositivedoula
“This workshop was incredibly helpful and Stefanie is an amazing educator. I feel infinitely more prepared now not only going into my next birth but in handling any crisis situation that may present itself in the future.”
@BirthingGarden