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The Center for Indigenous Midwifery was founded by Rhonda Lee Grantham, an Indigenous Midwife and Herbalist from the Cowlitz Nation.

Our vision is to heal generations with Indigenous midwifery wisdom and culturally-centered family support.

Our vision is for every mother and baby survive and thrive through pregnancy, labor, and beyond.

Therefore, it is our mission to create culturally responsive pregnancy and parenting experiences for Black, immigrant, and refugee families.

In the summer of 2019, we hosted an Indigenous doula training and an Indigenous lactation counselor training open to community members. As Daybreak Star Doulas, we launched that program with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation in 2019 which was exclusively funded by a King County levy called Best Starts for Kids. This program was spearheaded by Camie Jae Goldhammer and she hired two doulas. We immediately got busy working with families but we wanted to do more! In the summer of 2021, we launched Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services.

Since 1997, Open Arms has provided community-based support during pregnancy, birth, and early parenting to nurture strong foundations to last a lifetime. Through doula care, childbirth education, lactation counseling, and new parent support, we help birthing families achieve important milestones, strengthen parent-baby bonding, and boost long-term parenting skills.

We are the first organization of our kind in Washington State and were founded by a small group of community members who envisioned a future where no one would have to give birth without support. Imagining a world that cherishes birthing people, their babies, families, and communities, our founders created one of the first nonprofit organizations that provide free community-based and culturally-responsive doula services. Since then Open Arms has grown in size and services and has also supported the startup of other organizations to serve their communities.

The Pacific Islander Health Board seeks to cultivate resiliency within our communities to achieve health equity through culturally safe and community-driven solutions, traditions, advocacy, and policies.

We see the value in everyone and we want to be a catalyst for positive change, and since our beginnings when our board members came together volunteering their time, we’ve been driven by the same ideas that we initially founded our Organization upon:

Support, Empowerment, and Progress.