Purpose of the Symposium
1) Discuss the benefits of the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI) for hospitals, clinics, mothers, infants, and clinicians
2) Provide a forum for discussion among nurses, doctors, doulas, childbirth educators, midwives, administrators and others on the challenges and opportunities of implementing mother-friendly care in the clinical or hospital setting.
3) Provide a forum for dissemination of evidence-based best practices for maternity care.
4) Support clinics, hospitals and community-based programs in developing plans of action to shift the thinking in their organizations towards mother-friendly care and develop multidisciplinary coordinated networks of maternity care providers.
5) Practitioners and students of maternity care will obtain an objective understanding of the collision of worldviews and belief systems when the medical and midwifery models of maternity care intersect.
6) Participants will describe how the perinatal community as a whole can best collaborate to provide optimal care for mothers and infants based on the principals of the MFCI and the evidence-based practices available as outlined in the 10 steps of the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI).
Principles of the MFCI are:This session will also be a live international town-hall meeting live-streamed over the internet. To register, go to: https://2015-mfci-symposium-virtual-meeting.eventbrite.com
ABOUT THE FILM:“Freedom for Birth" is a 58 minute documentary that reframes women's birthing rights as one of the most pressing human rights issues in the world today. “Freedom For Birth” is more than just a film. It marks the beginning of a movement that will focus global attention on the violations of women's rights during childbirth all around the world.
This film and presentation following presentation with Hermine Hayes-Klein JD of Human Rights in Childbirth will also be available via webinar. Fee: $20 Regular Admission $10 Student Admission (with ID)
Note:
If you are attending just the film + lecture and not the entire day, please park at the Postal Annex parking lot adjacent to the California Endowment. Fee is $6. There will NOT be any parking available in the California Endowment parking lot.