Community Project

Your Community Project is at its simplest, a collection of birth and/or bereavement resources you’ll be able to provide to the families you serve. There is information in the promotional materials at the registration page, as well as a sample in the Student Resources link. Your list might include:

conception/fertility assistance
prenatal/pregnancy resources such as OBs, midwives and doulas you might recommend
birth resources including hospitals or birthing centers you recommend
The Welcoming resources including local NICUs, baby boutiques, new motherhood resources
Farewell resources including chaplains, crematoriums and funeral homes
Healing Journey resources including local infant loss support groups

You can construct your community project in any way that best fits you and the families you serve. Ideas might include a word document general listing, a brochure or two, or pages on your website.

When it’s complete you’ll likely want to send it to Heidi Faith via email at Heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com.

In constructing your Community Project for graduation, please note that you may want/need to go back in and edit portions of your project before presenting your materials to families or local resources, as you’ll want to be sure to bear the SBD credential after your name, and if you’re including contact information you may want to link back to your stillbirthday URL.

Your Community Project is an opportunity for you to ensure that as you are standing alongside a family, they know that you will do what you are able to prevent gaps and overlaps of care as you provide options and supplement resources for their journey. If you found that your interview projects were challenging, you might desire your Community Project to reflect the even deeper investigative research you might have pursued in acquiring the best resource list for the families you serve.

Your Community Project is an ongoing project. It is something that will change in the course of your professional journey as you learn of more resources and as others develop or improve over time.

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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BECOME A DOULA!

Enroll now in the Birth & Bereavement Doula® program!

We onboard enrolled students into the program by email invitation.

After tuition, you can email heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com directly to expedite this step. Alternatively, if you prefer fb communications, you can join us in Admissions.