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Sankofa is a Black woman led reproductive justice mission to end preventable death and illness women.

04/08/2026

Join us this Saturday for a special community run/walk in support of Black Maternal Health Week 💜💙

Black maternal health remains a critical issue, with Black women continuing to face disproportionately high maternal mortality rates in the U.S. This event is about community, awareness, and support.

This will be a 2-mile community walk/run and everyone is welcome. Bring your family, bring the kids, bring the stroller, and come be part of something meaningful. Water and fruit will be provided after the run.

Let’s show up for community, conversation, and awareness.

04/06/2026

Join the Sankofa Reproductive Health & Healing Center, the City of Syracuse and Onondaga County to adopt April 11-17 as Black Maternal Health Week.
NOW is the time to recommit to better maternal health outcomes for all.
Transformative and sustainable improvements to Black maternal health are within our reach.
Solutions are found in the lived experiences and collective action of Black women and their families.
Black Maternal Health Week is our time every year to raise awareness and advance equity.
We mark this historic occasion: Rooted in Justice & Joy!

City & County Proclamation Ceremony & Celebration
🗓️Monday, April 13, 2026
⏱️12:00pm -1:00pm
📍Cafe Sankofa

03/25/2026

Next week, PhD candidate Semaj Campbell-Blakes will defend her dissertation, “A City’s Neglectful Past: Young Black Mothers and the Creation of a Reproductive Health Crisis in the Urban North, 1900–2005.” Please join us in congratulating her on reaching this exciting milestone and wishing her every success at her defense!

11/10/2025

Birth justice includes the right to make informed decisions during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. Birth justice requires that care is free from harm, coercion, unwanted medical interventions, and cultural incompetence.

Birth justice in action looks like:
*Your right to choose your provider
*Your right to informed care
*Your right to have the birth partner(s) of your choice
*Your right to be heard
*Respect and care for your identity and personhood
*Your right to a birth plan that is centered by everyone
*And much more….
If you are pregnant or considering pregnancy, join us for our Birth Justice Series at Sankofa Pregnancy Village. Free & Virtual for families in Syracuse.

Sankofa Pregnancy Village is a space of affirmation, wisdom sharing, and communal education for soon-to-be mamas and pregnant people.
THIS SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15
REGISTER TODAY. Link in bio

11/08/2025

Today we were able to serve over 60 families at our Winter Clothing & Resources Giveaway !

Thank you to everyone who helped us spread the word, donated food, clothing items, and their time to support our beloved community!

A special thank you to our community partners Cafe Sankofa Inc. , Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. Kaptivating Kappa Xi Zeta, SUNY Upstate Medical Students for joining us in our efforts to actualize health and economic justice for families in our community ✨

11/06/2025

Join Sankofa and our community partners for a free essential items and resource giveaway.
This Saturday, November 8, 2025 12pm -4pm @ Cafe Sankofa.
2323 S. Salina Street
Sankofa is committed to collaboration and partnerships that sustain the perinatal safety net families deserve to live fully in Syracuse.
If you are a pregnant or parenting family experiencing hardship please contact our Perinatal Health Coordinator for individualized care and resource support. 315-920-2787

Considering ways to support families in your community? PayPal: SankofaHeals
Sponsor a family today!

Reaching Forward.
Giving Back.

10/20/2025

Wellness Wednesday is for YOU!
Free Diapers Wipes & Clothing
Free & Essential Items for Families
Brought to you by Mrs. Vickie, the Sankofa Doula Collective and the illustrious Sorors of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.

Come see us
This Wednesday. 2pm-6pm
2323 S. Salina Street
Syracuse NY 13205
315-920-2787

Reaching Forward.
Giving Back.

10/14/2025

Sankofa Pregnancy Village
🎯Managing anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum.
🤰🏾For pregnant people and their partners

🗓️ This Saturday, October 18
⏰ 1:00PM
🖥️ VIRTUAL
Link in Bio.

Join us for our monthly virtual gathering led by Fatim Cisse.
Fatim is a Sankofa doula with Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy.

Sankofa Pregnancy Village is a space of affirmation, wisdom sharing, and communal education for soon-to-be mamas and pregnant people. This village helps us to honor traditions in pregnancy and begin to understand our power in creating the experience we deserve.

10/10/2025

In honor of National Midwifery Week we celebrate Juliet Ilunga. 🇨🇩♥️♥️Juliet is a traditional midwife from Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and our Sankofa Doula sister here in Syracuse, NY.
Juliet serves our community of families from all over Africa and the Middle East. She brings forward practices of care that have sustained healthy outcomes for generations. Her dedication to bridge African and African American maternal health has allowed us to create cross cultural exchanges and systems of support at Sankofa that would not be possible without her guidance and translation assistance.
Juliet offers so much to our collective including traditional practices of community centered birth and parenting, baby wearing, newborn massage, nutrition for mothers including okra for birth readiness and of course- Moringa for everything!
We are grateful for her wisdom and dedication to families.

10/09/2025

It’s National Midwives Week.
This week, we honor Black Midwives past and present.
Dr. Jessica Brown is Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) and Doctor of Nursing Practice. She is a Sankofa Board Member and advisor to the Sankofa Doula Collective. Jess is our sister, our friend and our community midwife. We grateful for her time and care for us despite being the busiest midwife and mother out here!💜

African and Indigenous Midwifery care has been the backbone of health, wellness, safety and community care since the beginning of the United States and centuries before. We honor their sacrifice and enduring love for us through caregiving and reproductive justice.

We are told that the art and science of Midwifery is not community work. That birth and transitioning to parenthood is only a medical event-stripped of its innate power and sacredness.
We know that Black Midwifery care is legacy work.

Sankofa doula care exists because Black Midwives teaches us the importance of personhood, bodily autonomy and intuition in maternal reproductive health care.
We honor all those that came before us and the Black Midwives today and in our future.

10/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Labor Prep @ Sankofa Pregnancy Village. Here are the highlights from our time together. 💜

✨NEXT UP: Sankofa Pregnancy Village: Perinatal Mental Health w/Fatim Cisse & the Sankofa Doula Collective
Virtual and FREE
Register Today
315-920-2787

09/30/2025

Pregnancy is a sacred time of power and transformation.
Google, Meta & Tik Tok will have us out here in deep anxiety and fear.
Social Media is NOT a substitute for community or expert information for informed decision making.
Put that phone down!

Join Sankofa at our upcoming virtual and in person spaces of loving guidance and collective care.

NEXT UP: Sankofa Pregnancy Village
Perinatal Mental Health
Virtual and FREE

In person gatherings coming in soon!

Address

2323 S. Salina Street
Syracuse, NY
13205

Telephone

+13159202787

Website

https://linktr.ee/sankofaheals, http://www.sankofaheals.com/

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