Our Mission
We are indigenous leaders and community healers, centering our families and communities, transforming the cultural narrative and setting in motion policy changes. Our mission is to support our diverse indigenous communities, to renew cultural birth, and the fundamental indigenous human right to reproductive health, dignity and justice.
Our Vision
Our vision is to restore the sovereignty of indigenous midwifery and community health with the return to gender equality and cultural birth practices.
Core Values
To honor all our relations through language, land, ceremony, and traditions; with humility, responsibility, fortitude, compassion, generosity, and respect.
CWI is intentional in its weaving of a decolonized shared leadership model, seeking balance and harmony by prioritizing health policy, birth resiliency, and community engagement.
Who We Are
Changing Woman Initiative is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization seeking to renew cultural birth knowledge to empower and reclaim indigenous sovereignty of women’s medicine and lifeway teachings to promote reproductive wellness, and healing through holistic approaches and to strengthen bonds to family and community.
Our future focus is to develop a culturally centered reproductive wellness and birth center. By creating a physical space for education and healing for Indigenous women, we will help reclaim cultural identities through birth and motherhood that have been shaped by our cultures.
Our present focus is to provide culturally integrated healthcare centering Indigenous families in the communities we serve.