Jamaa Birth Village

Jamaa Birth Village The Historic Jamaa Birth Village Cultural Heritage Center envisions a world where birth is sacred, communal and grounded in ancestral wisdom.

We preserve & elevate African diasporic midwifery through care, cultural preservation, education and advocacy. For more information please call 314-643-7703 or visit JamaaBirthVillage.org

At Jamaa Birth Village, we provide holistic, empowering, community-centered midwifery care for families who desire compa...
04/22/2026

At Jamaa Birth Village, we provide holistic, empowering, community-centered midwifery care for families who desire compassionate, wholesome and cultural care.

We’d be honored to walk alongside this journey with you!💜

Book your care today:
https://jamaabirthvillage.org

The next cohort is loading 💜Our Family Doula Training begins June 5th and we’re so excited for what’s ahead.If you’ve ap...
04/21/2026

The next cohort is loading 💜

Our Family Doula Training begins June 5th and we’re so excited for what’s ahead.

If you’ve applied, check your email for your acceptance status and next steps to officially enroll.

This work is sacred, our Family Doula training is intentional, and this next cohort lineage is stepping into something powerful.

We’re so excited to welcome you all in June!

Thank you for attending this year’s Summit!Our staff and org will go on a 10-day rest break, April 20th-30th, to honor o...
04/20/2026

Thank you for attending this year’s Summit!

Our staff and org will go on a 10-day rest break, April 20th-30th, to honor our bodies, minds and spirits after hosting such a beautiful annual statewide gathering during Black Maternal Health Week.

The love, deep care and intention at the Summit is long lasting and was felt by many. And just as Mama Queen Afua told us, “When we rest, we’re able to dream and continue to carry forth our vision and calling”. And as Tricia Hersey the Nap Bishop shows us- “Rest is Resistance, We Will Rest!”

While we rest, our social media team will be active, still spreading the love, joy, educational opportunities and communal care services within Jamaa Birth Village.

We are basking in celebratory joy, gratitude and deep thankfulness, for the culmination and successful completion of the...
04/18/2026

We are basking in celebratory joy, gratitude and deep thankfulness, for the culmination and successful completion of the 3rd Annual Missouri Black Maternal Summit in STL.

As we sit in awe and collective communal vibrancy, we’d like to thank our beautiful summit hosts, guests, presenters, speakers, artists and sponsors for making this year’s Summit so wonderful.

We thank everyone for making this possible, and look forward to next year!✨

04/17/2026

Day 1 of our annual Black maternal health summit in St. Louis was so powerful! It was everything we needed it to be and so much more💜

From being on the farm, stepping & being grounded on sacred land, being guided deeply in spirit, healing and collective liberation through our Queen Mother & Elder Queen Afua’s opening keynote, to our tour at the African Indigenous Midwifery Museum & Library with artists Hannah & Simiya, and finally to our invigorating & elevating dinner poetry session with Sunni Patterson-it was a abundantly joy filled day immersed in nature.

We’re so honored to be in our third year of bringing our community together with guests from across the nation.

If you were in sacred space with us yesterday, thank you. If you missed it, stay connected for what’s coming next year!

🎥: Renaissance TJS Photography

TODAY 💜This is the day we’ve been building toward.The 3rd Annual Missouri Black Maternal Health Summit is here and the l...
04/16/2026

TODAY 💜

This is the day we’ve been building toward.

The 3rd Annual Missouri Black Maternal Health Summit is here and the land is ready to welcome us in the heart of St. Louis!

Today, we gather in community
We listen, we learn, we connect
And we experience something that goes beyond a typical Black Maternal Health event

With powerful voices like Queen Afua, Sunni Patterson, and our community drummers & dancers setting the tone…our power and voices are rising to be felt from the very beginning and beyond.

If you’re joining us, travel safe and come ready to be present.

If you’re already in the city, we’ll see you soon✨
St. Louis, it’s time!

We’re just 1-day away from the 3rd Annual Missouri Black Maternal Health Summit!Our Summit flow is filled with voices th...
04/15/2026

We’re just 1-day away from the 3rd Annual Missouri Black Maternal Health Summit!

Our Summit flow is filled with voices that shift, ground, challenge, and remind us of who we do this work for, and who we are.

Our day opens with honoring our culture & heritage with the rhythm of our communal drummers and dancers. Leading us into our summit day-1, we open with Queen Afua, setting the tone with wisdom that has guided generations across decades.

We’ll culminate our day moving through the Black Midwife Museum and poetry-reflection with Sunni Patterson, where her words and artistry usher us into a new way of thinking, existing and being.

Then Day 2…

Pacia Elaine, an artist, activist and mother, grounded right here in St. Louis, brings us back to community and truth.

Brittany Packnett-Cunningham’s “Fireside Chat” connects us with culture, activism, motherhood and lived experience in a way that shifts us to action, reclaim and liberation.

And our Closing summit ceremony, led by Conscious Lee, allows all of our summit guests to expand deeply into our collective liberation, leaving with something to carry long after it’s over.

This is an experience, intentionally built from start to finish.

April 16–17
In St. Louis, MO
Meet us there!
moblackmaternalhealthsummit.com

We are immensely grateful to the many organizations across the nation, sponsoring this year’s Summit in St. Louis.We’re ...
04/14/2026

We are immensely grateful to the many organizations across the nation, sponsoring this year’s Summit in St. Louis.

We’re sending a special thank you to Missouri Foundation For Health-as their sponsorship of the 3rd Annual Missouri Black Maternal Health Summit allowed all guests to attend for free this year!

We’re deeply honored for the sponsorships from Chicago Beyond and Every Mother Counts,
-longtime supporters of Jamaa Birth Village’s work.

To our friends at the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers and Elephant Circle, and to our newest supporters Aetna, Humana, Reach Healthcare Foundation, the Milk Bank and Molina Healthcare, we are deeply appreciative of your sponsorship this year.

And to the African Indigenous Midwifery Museum, whom will host a Black Midwife & Historic Ferguson tour at no cost for our Summit Guests-Thank you!!

Thank you to each one of our sponsors for investing in Black Maternal Health, community care, and the spaces where real conversations and real change happen.

This work is collective, communal and liberatory, and we’re grateful to be in it together 💜

We’re just 3-days away from the 3rd Annual MO Black Maternal Health Summit!Our Summit is where real conversations happen...
04/13/2026

We’re just 3-days away from the 3rd Annual MO Black Maternal Health Summit!

Our Summit is where real conversations happen, where care is centered the way it should be, and where community action meets liberation.

In just a few short days, we’re bringing together voices, experiences, tours & Black Maternal Health leaders, activists and healers.

Get ready to experience live drumming, National Poets, Global Keynote Speakers, & joy filled communal liberation.

Registration is now closed and we’re so excited to welcome all of our Summit guests to Rustic Roots Sanctuary soon!

Summit guests can receive full details at: www.moblackmaternalhealthsummit.com

Today at the Global Black Doula Day press conference, Jamaa announced, “Okunsola’s Black Doula Rest Fund!” The fund hono...
04/11/2026

Today at the Global Black Doula Day press conference, Jamaa announced, “Okunsola’s Black Doula Rest Fund!” The fund honors the legacy and lineage of rest, hibernation and sabbatical practices that Jamaa’s Founder integrated into her life and modeled to countless others-on how she thrived in her role as a woman, mother, doula, and midwife. Passing this wisdom on to others-20 Rest & Wellness Care scholarships will be awarded to Black Doulas across the globe annually in honor of Global Black Doula Day.✨🙌🏾✨

A fund supported by the Black Doula Merch store & donations-created by 7-Black Maternal Health organizations- the Black Doula Rest Fund is officially live providing the following to Black Doulas of the diaspora who need and deserve rest:

✨$500 rest and hibernation scholarship

✨3-months of mental health care with a Black woman mental health/spiritual care provider

✨6-month mentorship with an elder Black Doula or CEU support-whichever will help them strengthen and advance their work and center rest in their daily lives

✨Black Doula Rest & Renewal curated care gift box to support in the integration of long-term sustainable rest practices

The initial scholarships will be awarded in Autumn 2026, and annually thereafter. Awards are given via a lottery of applications. You may begin your Rest Fund Award within up to 6 months of receiving the award.

The people who carry our communities should not be running on empty. Black doulas are on the frontlines of Black maternal health liberation every single day. Showing up for births, for families, for outcomes that should not still be this unequal.
And somewhere in the middle of all of that-rest gets pushed to the side. This fund is here to change that.

If you are a practicing Black doula who needs time to reset, restore, and be poured into, this is for you!

Applications are open now at blackdouladay.com

If you want to support, every purchase from the Black Doula Day merch store goes directly toward funding these rest scholarships. This is what community care actually looks like.

Not just showing up for the work but showing up for the people doing it!🫶🏾

“Our collective rest will save us.” -

Happy Black Doula Day!! We’re SO happy to celebrate, honor & uplift Black Doulas across the diaspora. Today and everyday...
04/11/2026

Happy Black Doula Day!! We’re SO happy to celebrate, honor & uplift Black Doulas across the diaspora. Today and everyday, Black Doulas, we’re keeping our head to the sky, we can win, and make progress together in creating a better world for mamas, babies and families!💜

Black Doula Day was founded in 2022 at Jamaa Birth Village by its Founder Okunsola M. Amadou, to honor the hands, hearts, and knowledge that have always carried our communities.

What started as a vision has now grown into a global movement. Recognized across multiple states, celebrated internationally, and stewarded by 7 powerful Black Maternal Health and Doula organizations committed to protecting this work✨.

This year’s theme is: "Black Doulas on the Frontlines of Black Maternal Health Liberation!” 🙌🏾

This year, we are asking you to take it a step further and bring Black Doula Day to your city by using the proclamation template on the blackdouladay.com website paired with the toolkit, to push for recognition where you are.

Join us today at 11AM CST for our virtual press conference as we continue to uplift the 7-core doula demands with a special announcement! Join us by registering at blackdouladay.com.

We’re also deeply grateful for the Black Doula Day planning committee members within the Black Mamas Matter Alliance: Ancient Song, the Georgia Black Doula Network , Jamaa Birth Village, ROOTT, Sankofa Reproductive Health & Healing Center, and Southern Birth Justice Network.

Because honoring the work means investing in the people doing it, and putting in the work to care for Black Doulas, just as they care for mothers, babies and families!

Start here: blackdouladay.com and join us at 11am CST💜 Let’s go!!

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