Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings

Anyone is capable of experiencing a mental health crisis — and it’s on us to have tools to support our clients without relying on carceral systems that may increase harm. ⁠

Join Stefanie Kaufman-Mthimkhulu for a skills-based crisis response training for birth workers. 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.⁠

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. ⁠We’ll be learning how to navigate psychiatric, emotional, and spiritual crises from an abolitionist, peer-led, Disability Justice lens that values the autonomy and self-determination of folks in crisis. ⁠ 

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. ⁠

This training will take place via Zoom. It will be recorded and recordings will be shared. All registered participants will have access to replays and course materials for  90 days from the date of your purchase.  Automated closed captions and transcript in English will be available during live calls. Replays will include corrected captions. 

Additional accommodations available upon request by emailing [email protected]. 

If the cost of this training is a barrier, please email [email protected] .⁠