Call for collaborating sites: Breech training initiative
Breech Without Borders is applying for grants that would bring vaginal breech training to various targeted communities. If you are in a position of leadership at a hospital, community health center, nonprofit organization, or other maternal-child health organization, we are seeking your letters of support as collaborating partners. 

This form is to gather information about your role and your organization. 

About the collaboration initiative:

BWB is looking at proposing a collaboration to bring breech training and policy initiatives to several sites throughout the USA and across the world. 

BWB is launching the Breech Birth Training & Advocacy Initiative, a focused training and policy advocacy program designed to address systemic maternal health disparities by reskilling healthcare providers in both hospital and community birth settings and advocating for hospital policy reforms that ensure mothers with breech babies have the right to choose their preferred mode of birth.

 As part of this initiative, we are conducting specialized training sessions targeting several key groups, including:
  • African American/BIPOC healthcare providers and birthing communities
  • Other ethnic minority communities
  • Plain (Amish/Mennonite) midwives and maternity care providers serving Plain communities (or other religious minority communities outside the US)
  • Indigenous/Aboriginal/First Nations healthcare professionals and birthing communities
  • Underserved rural communities and/or communities in maternity care deserts

Specifically, we seek to partner with your organization in the following ways:
  • Training & Capacity Building: Collaborating on hands-on multidisciplinary breech birth training for doctors, midwives, nurses, doulas, and other allied staff such as anesthesia, pediatrics, etc.
  • Hospital Policy Reform: Working together to advocate for evidence-based policies that reintroduce vaginal breech birth as an option in hospital settings (if your organization is not a healthcare facility, we would invite your organization to give input to local hospitals looking to start a breech service)
  • Research & Data Collection: Partnering to track birth outcomes and provider competency post-training, contributing to data-driven policy recommendations.
  • Community Education & Awareness: Hosting public information sessions to ensure that pregnant women and their families understand their rights and options.

We want to emphasize that BWB is actively seeking grant funding to cover the full cost of this training initiative, ensuring that there will be no financial obligation for our collaborating partners. 

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Your name *
Email *
Organization(s) you are affiliated with in a leadership role (i.e., department chair, head of OB or midwifery, member of the Board of directors, president or executive director, etc.) *
Please describe your role(s) and titles in that organization *
Please list your organization's website and mission, if applicable *
What country is your organization based in? *
Please tell us more about the status of breech birth options in your community and your hopes for expanding breech birth options in the future.  *
Which affected population(s) does your organization serve? Mark all that apply. *
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Please describe the needs of the affected population(s) that you serve and how this breech training initiative would benefit them. *
If our grant projects are funded, could your organization commit to participating in the project? 

Most grant projects would involve:
- hosting hands-on training workshops for maternity care providers in your community
- participating in policy initiatives to advocate for and implement hospital breech services
- submitting clinical outcome data on breech births attended post-training
- receiving a Sophie and her Mum simulator
- training someone in the organization to offer ongoing simulation practice sessions to maintain skills and normalize vaginal breech birth
- receiving CEUs/CMEs/CPDs for both the hands-on and online training
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Do you know of any charitable foundations or other organizations in your region/country that we could apply to, with your partnership, to fund this imitative? If so, please list them here.
Thank you!
If your organization is able to commit to participating and fits within the focus of our grant project, we will reach out to you with further details. 

We are actively researching and writing multiple grants. Even if we do not contact you immediately, we may reach out in the future as we begin additional grant projects. 
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