2021 - 2022
We are reimagining what community support care can be, a reimagining rooted in ancestral healing, anti-racism, gender expansive frameworks and rematriation.
We are reopening membership with a robust program envisioned, launching Skillshare recording sales and together, relaunching our #everyondeservesadoula fundraising campaign as we build our capacity for reinstating full doula matching and SRJ service.
We are eager to embrace and root in a new structure of care work sustainability that centers our own thriving.
Let's build this together.
Inside our Member Space
- Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021
- BLACK MAMAS MATTER: Advancing the human right to to safe and respectful Maternal Health Care
- Building A Successful Program For Medi-Cal Coverage For Doula Care: Findings From A Survey of Doulas in California
- 2022 State Legislative Sessions - Abortion Bans and Restrictions
- Justice Alito's initial draft abortion opinion about Roe v. Wade
- California Future of Abortion Council
- Black Women's and Birth Workers' Experiences of Disrespect and Abuse in Maternity Care
Interested in becoming a collective member?
If you have been a member of the collective in the past or if you trained to become a doula with RLBC, Sumi’s Touch or Cornerstone Birthkeepers - please complete this form and then choose your active member type below for next steps once you're enrolled.
If you have never been a member of the collective but you are trained or experienced as a doula, please complete this form and then choose your active member type below for next steps once you're enrolled.
If you do not yet have training or experience in being a doula but you are interested in becoming a member of the collective now with the intention of taking a training in the near future, while building community with us, please complete this form and then choose your active member type below for next steps once you're enrolled.
Everyone Deserves a Doula
Roots of Labor Birth Collective (RLBC) is committed to reproductive justice, and believes that everyone deserves a doula, regardless of one’s ability to pay. When you hire an RLBC doula, you are investing in the wellness of the greater Bay Area birthing community.
We partner with Santa Rita Jail and Bay Area clinics who serve low-income and Black, Indigenous and people of color communities (BIPOC). We offer compassionate physical, emotional, and informational support to those members of our community who are most vulnerable to systemic oppression.
When you choose to hire an RLBC doula, your decision to work with us provides quality doula care to all birthing people, including those who are incarcerated, immigrants (regardless of their documentation status), survivors, low-income, trans*, queer, and/or people with disabilities.