BECOME A MEMBER
TASK FORCE AMPLIFIER
Individuals taking action in their community. NPTF amplifiers raise consciousness via education and activism to amplify the vision of birthing a just and loving world.
Click here for 50 ways that you can start to be a Task Force Amplifier.
TASK FORCE IGNITER
Collectives/organizations taking action in their community. NPTF Igniters spark collectives by building local collective efforts to launch new PSSs and/or maternal justice community organizing projects towards the vision of birthing a just and loving world.
become a PERINATAL SAFE SPOT
Individuals, collectives or organizations of official virtual and physical, community-embedded practices and perinatal professionals providing direct services. PSSs are made up of people using their shared cultural and lived experience to advance collective self-determination and maternal justice in their communities.
If you wish to become a Perinatal Safe Spot you must meet the following requirements:
- Provide a judgment-free zone that can be physical or virtual
- Provide a place to connect moms, family members, community, to each other and the baby
- Be unique to individual materno-toxic areas and break through the real barriers to quality care
- Give families the real tools they need to have power and agency in their childbearing decisions
- Nurture a place to gain knowledge for the healthiest pregnancy, mom, and baby
- Be a physical, emotional and informational support function so childbearing families have true options
Not ready to join but still want to be involved?
- Share and “like” the Face Book page – National Perinatal Task Force
- Learn the statistics for your community
- Share with others in your circles about these issues
- Consider attending an MCH Specialist or Community Outreach Perinatal Educator (COPE) training course offered by Commonsense Childbirth Institute
- Join our mailing list so you can keep up to date with what’s happening
- Read about the Official Criteria information for becoming a PSS to recognize others who maybe doing this work, but who are not on the list or map.
There are many ways to get involved as an individual, a business, an organization, or all. We look forward to you or your organization supporting the National Perinatal Task Force or becoming a member.
What are first steps to getting involved?