Events
Community Centered Events.
ROBWI hosts community-centered events that bring education, resources, and support directly into local communities during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenting. We partner with local organizations to create welcoming, relationship-centered gatherings that reflect community strengths, honor lived experience and respond to the unique needs of each community.
Community Perinatal Resource Fair & Baby Showers
Community Perinatal Resource Fairs and Baby Showers are designed to reduce isolation and increase access to care by bringing support directly into the community. These gatherings connect families with trusted providers, education, and resources in a welcoming environment that honors lived experience and prioritizes dignity, safety, and choice.
Perinatal Education Events
Our Perinatal Education Events create space for learning, connection, and conversation around pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and early parenting. Topics are responsive to community-identified needs and designed to support informed choice, confidence, and continuity of care.
Provider Trainings & Events
Student & Community Engagement Events
Family & Caregiver Support Groups
Satellite Events allow us to serve deeper rural and under-resourced communities by bringing perinatal education, resources, and support directly into local spaces throughout the year. We partner with established community organizations, including libraries, health departments, and other trusted local entities, to host smaller, localized gatherings in familiar, accessible settings. This approach reduces travel barriers, builds trust, and ensures support is responsive to the unique needs of each community.
Parent & Caregiver Connection Events
Our provider trainings, and events are designed for providers, by providers, ensuring content is practical, relevant, and grounded in real clinical and community experience. Offerings are CEU approved for mental health professionals across disciplines and are in the process of awarding medical CEUs for nurses at all levels, certified professional midwives, nurse midwives, and other mid-level medical providers. These sessions focus on strengthening collaboration, improving continuity of care, and supporting providers in better understanding the role of community-based doulas and trauma-responsive, relationship-centered care.
Events are designed to prepare the next generation of medical and mental health professionals to serve parents and families with competence, humility, and care. We partner with undergraduate and graduate programs to provide education through an ethical, culturally responsive, humanistic, and trauma-informed lens, with a strong emphasis on real-world application and community context.
These events support students in understanding the perinatal and early parenting period as a critical window for health, prevention, and long-term family wellbeing. Participants learn about the benefits of a holistic, collaborative perinatal care team, including community-based doulas, International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs), Lactation Counselors (LCs), Perinatal Mental Health-Certified providers (PMH-C), nurses, midwives, and other community-based professionals. Emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary collaboration, respectful care, and the role of relationship-centered support in improving outcomes for families.
Parent and Caregiver Connection Events create welcoming spaces for parents, caregivers, and families to connect, share experiences, and build supportive relationships. These gatherings reduce isolation and foster community during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenting.
