Rural Oklahoma Birth & Wellness Initiative Events
Community Centered Events.
ROBWI hosts community-centered events that bring education, resources, and support directly into rural communities during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenting. These gatherings are designed to strengthen connection, reduce isolation, and expand access to trusted care.
We partner with local organizations, providers, and community leaders to create welcoming, relationship-centered spaces that reflect community strengths, honor lived experience, and respond to the unique needs of each community. Guided by Indigenous principles of relationship, shared responsibility, and respect for community knowledge, our events strengthen the networks of care that surround families.
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 opportunities for learning, conversation, and connection around pregnancy, birth, postpartum recovery, and early parenting.
Topics are shaped by community-identified needs and designed to support informed decision-making, confidence, and continuity of care. These gatherings create space for families to learn alongside providers and community supports in an environment that encourages questions, dialogue, and shared learning.
Family & Caregiver Support Groups
Family and Caregiver Support Groups provide welcoming spaces for parents, caregivers, and families to connect, share experiences, and build supportive relationships during pregnancy and early parenting.
These gatherings reduce isolation while strengthening community networks of care, ensuring families feel supported not only by providers but also by other parents navigating similar experiences.
Provider Trainings & 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.
Student & Community Engagement Events
ROBWI partners with colleges and universities to engage students in meaningful learning experiences focused on maternal health, early childhood development, and community-based care.
These events prepare future medical and mental health professionals to serve families with competence, humility, and compassion. Education is delivered through a culturally responsive, trauma-aware, and human-centered lens with strong emphasis on real-world application and community context.
Participants learn about collaborative perinatal care teams that may include community-based doulas, IBCLCs, lactation counselors, perinatal mental health specialists, nurses, midwives, and other community professionals. Emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary collaboration and the importance of relationship-centered support in improving outcomes for families.
Parent & Caregiver Connection Events
Parent and Caregiver Connection Events create welcoming spaces for families to build relationships, share experiences, and strengthen community during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenting.
These gatherings help reduce isolation while fostering connection, mutual support, and community resilience.
