Minority Scholarship

Pregnancy and infant loss, is its own marginalized demographic. From within its global impact, there is age-ism, the belief that stillbirth-means-more-than-miscarriage. There is a sense of exclusivity based on values, decisions, and perspectives. There is a sense of total separation, inferiority and the sense of not-belonging from the “normal birth” community from which we once were part. This severance, if nothing more than an awakening from the naivity we once held, still can feel isolating; it can feel lonely. It adds a sense of stress. It decreases a sense of trust, support, stability, belonging and identity: the very ingredients of healing.

Perhaps you are also within another marginalized demographic, and you have a heart to bring the advanced wisdom you hold from walking in your shoes, into the community we serve together. Any demographic you deem merits a closer look for this scholarship, we believe is worthy of real consideration.

If the community you identify with and find home in, if you have ever been made to feel slighted, made to feel inferior, or have endured undue strain and challenge from those outside of it, you likely belong to a marginalized demographic.

Pregnancy and infant loss knows no boundaries. It touches every community. If you’re there, and have a heart to help, we want to join you.

The need for a Minority Scholarship was first presented to stillbirthday by the beloved Roxy Johnson, SBD.

Qualifications:

Any learner with a heart to serve the healing community from within a marginalized demographic.

Award:

One Minority Scholarship will be awarded each SBD training session. The Scholarship award grants 100% tuition toward the SBD training for the chosen recipient. In addition, once the recipient has been awarded the Minority Scholarship, he or she will also be entitled to bear the Scholarship logo.

To apply:

Please submit application letter with subject: scholarship to heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com

Please be advised that I do not send “rejection letters”. Each and every application is important. I believe your submission may be powerful, poignant, thought provoking, emotion evoking, and heartwarming, yet another name may be chosen for this particular scholarship. You can check our updated class roster from Stillbirthday University as it will indicate the names of scholarship recipients. If you do not yet see one listed for that session, one has not been designated yet.

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.