August Community Resources
The Birth Neoterist Newsletter is a community space. This is a space where guest writing is welcomed, guest speakers are invited, and community events are shared. Add a comment below or send us an email at info@sabiawade.com with any events you have coming up this season and we will add them in. Or you can contact us if you’d like to share your story on this platform.
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AUGUST 30th, 5pm EST.
FULL MOON RELEASE - First one is open to all!
This is a free event, registration is required. Register here.
Pelvic Floor Wellness: Prenatal Webinar | Scripps | FREE | August 16 | Join a women’s health physical therapist to learn about prenatal pelvic floor health. Exercises and how you can strengthen your pelvic floor muscles prenatally and during the postpartum period will be explained. These exercises will be demonstrated to help you improve your muscle strength and function.
Healing Racialized Trauma with Resmaa Menakem | $297 | August 21 | Through this deeply transformative work, Resmaa Menakem confronts the charge of racism by guiding the way on how to begin to heal this trauma for ourselves and future generations.
Collective Liberation as a Pathway to Perinatal Equity | Nurturely | Varied Cost | September 6 | Join Nurturely and Sabia Wade , The Black Doula with national guest speakers for a 4-week virtual series tackling systemic racism within pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and infant health. Hear from expert researchers, providers and advocates and learn applicable changes for your practice, organization or personal advocacy.
Spirituality and Doula Work | DoulaCon | Varied Cost | September 22 | Discover the synergy of spirituality and doula work at DoulaCon's session with Sabia Wade. Explore personal spiritual practices and their impact on your role, from forging connections to accommodating diverse client perspectives. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned explorer, join Sabia Wade for a guided exploration of this transformative intersection.
2023 Virtual Fall Symposium | APTA Pelvic Health | $99-$179 | September 30 | 8:30AM-5:00PM ET | Discover the latest advancements and research in the field, all from the comfort of your own home or office. Esteemed lineup of expert speakers will deliver engaging presentations covering a range of topics relevant to your practice. Expand your knowledge, network with fellow professionals, and gain valuable insights that will elevate your skills and patient care.
Program Coordinator | Birth Workers of Color | Full-Time | This role includes supervising the Abortion Doula Program and Abortion Fund, overseeing referrals, intake, and matching for Doula Services, and ensuring well-organized client and doula records. The responsibilities extend to researching community resources, crafting/editing event flyers, supporting program development and fundraising, providing mentorship to BWOCC doulas, and cultivating partnerships.
Doula Benefit Program Manager | Birth Workers of Color | Full-Time | The role involves managing Medi-Cal covered doula and insurance programs, facilitating social media content creation and posting, linking clients with doulas, conducting client intake, post-service follow-up, and resource provision, as well as crafting evaluations and data collection tools.
Medi-Cal Biller | Birth Workers of Color | Part-Time | Experience Necessary | Seeking a coding-savvy candidate for a role involving accurate patient data management, benefit verification, and collaborative work with doula providers, DHCS, and insurance entities. Responsibilities include precise coding, payment tracking, billing, and supporting compliance initiatives. Close teamwork with managers, directors, and colleagues is essential.
Development Specialists | Birth Workers of Color | Part-Time | Responsibilities encompass organizational needs assessment, designing and executing training initiatives, setting practical event budgets aligned with fundraising projections, contributing to grant proposals and event development, and proactively seeking and engaging potential donors and sponsors.
Program Manager | Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health | Full-Time | The Manager, Programs is responsible for the overall development, management, oversight, and implementation of program activities and deliverables, to include project initiatives, documents, program planning, budgets, contracts, grants, awards, evaluation and reporting, personnel management, and financial reporting. Focus on developing objectives and strategies to assess program progress and growth. Network and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders. Make independent judgments to assess, interpret, and respond to the needs of stakeholders.
Program Associate | Birth Bridges | Part-Time | $25-$35/Hour | Seeking a program associate to provide vital administrative support to our Birth Bridges initiative. Responsibilities include attending meetings, managing schedules, note-taking, proposal and grant writing, and website upkeep. This role plays a crucial part in advancing program's success.
Director of Growth Strategy and Operations | Poppy Seed Health | Contract Position | $95-$150/Hr | Looking for a Product Manager to play a key role in making the experience seamless for B2B2C members and partners. Partners consist of strategic employers, health payers, health systems and channel partners. You’ll own the product strategy, member experience for upcoming partnerships while working closely with the engineering and advocate success team. This role is for someone who loves to dive into the details, has a passion for inclusivity and can balance autonomy and teamwork as part of their success.
Director of Growth Strategy and Operations | Poppy Seed Health | Contract Position | $95-$150/Hr | Looking for a Product Manager to play a key role in making the experience seamless for B2B2C members and partners. Partners consist of strategic employers, health payers, health systems and channel partners. You’ll own the product strategy, member experience for upcoming partnerships while working closely with the engineering and advocate success team. This role is for someone who loves to dive into the details, has a passion for inclusivity and can balance autonomy and teamwork as part of their success.
Advocate Success Support | Poppy Seed Health | 20-25 Hours/Week | $25/Hr | In this role, you will be responsible for administrative support for the Senior Manager of Advocate Success for Poppy Seed Health. Success in this position will be measured by growing systems and tools to support the advocate experience.
Director of Product Development | Poppy Seed Health | Contract Position | $85-$125/Hr | Looking for a Product Manager to play a key role in making the experience seamless for B2B2C members and partners. Partners consist of strategic employers, health payers, health systems and channel partners. You’ll own the product strategy, member experience for upcoming partnerships while working closely with the engineering and advocate success team. This role is for someone who loves to dive into the details, has a passion for inclusivity and can balance autonomy and teamwork as part of their success.
Senior Manager, Health Plan Partnerships | Poppy Seed Health | Contract Position | $95-$150/Hr | In this role, you will be responsible for growing and maintaining health plan partnerships and building relationships with both regional and national health plans. This role will be responsible for operationally launching new channel partnerships and optimizing how Poppy Seed Health serves existing partners.
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Origin Telehealth | Pelvic Floor 101 | Mission is to help women and all individuals with (or transitioning to) vaginal anatomy feel their best, through every stage of life. They actively listen to our patients, trusting their wisdom about their own bodies. Through online or in-person assessment, they provide expert insight into their symptoms. And, together, they co-create a care plan, rooted in evidence and designed to get results.
Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute | This list includes textbooks, websites, and scholarly articles that pelvic rehabilitations providers may find useful in professional development and learning.
Voices for PFD | Voices for PFD is a website and online community developed by AUGS (American Urogynecologic Society) to educate patients and caregivers about pelvic floor disorders. AUGS represents more than 2,000 members, including practicing physicians, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, nurses and health care professionals, and researchers from many disciplines.
Continence Foundation of Australia | Pelvic floor muscles support your bladder, bowel and uterus (womb). It is important to keep your pelvic floor muscles strong. Learn all about the pelvic floor and exercises you can use to strengthen it.
Emerson Health | Emerson’s certified pelvic health specialists have put together these resources for people to learn more about pelvic floor dysfunction and how our therapists approach treatment.
@the.vagina.whisperer | Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist | Since 2006, Dr. Sara has worked with thousands of women suffering from pelvic floor problems, and decided something had to change. Sara created a space so you and I—and every other vagina owner out there—can finally get the care we deserve.
Gender Inclusive Pelvic Health | Body Connect Physical Therapy | Body Connect PT is a practice dedicated to inclusive rehabilitation for patients across the gender spectrum. They’ve achieved this status through constant education and a close working partnership with other gender-inclusive practices.
The Evidence on Prenatal Perineal Massage for Preventing Tears in Childbirth | Evidence Based Birth Podcast | This episode continues the series on protecting the perineum by talking about the evidence on whether prenatal perineal massage is effective at preventing perineal tears during childbirth. Discuss the importance of critically analyzing research, and what “predatory open access publishing” has to do with some of the research on perineal massage!
What Every Queer Person Should Know About Their Pelvic Floor | We all have a pelvis and therefore a pelvic floor – regardless of our genitals or genders. And because we all have a pelvic floor, we all can be susceptible to dysfunction or injury of the pelvic floor just like any other body part.
The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality | Kimberly Ann Johnson | The Fourth Trimester is a holistic guide that offers practical guidance for women making the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual transition into motherhood. Deeply impactful on both the individual and global level, it’s shifted the experience of motherhood for women all over the world — and helped make this universal, yet widely-ignored experience of postpartum healing a priority in national policy.