Beloved Birth Collective is a systems-change organization transforming how birth care is designed and delivered. We partner with public health, healthcare delivery systems, and communities advancing birth equity. Together, we scale proven, midwifery-led, community-centered models that improve perinatal care experiences and health outcomes for families.

Beloved Birth Collective is Black-founded, midwifery-led, and inclusive of a broad range of perinatal equity experts. Our core team includes Black midwives and public health professionals. Our network consists of trusted, community-rooted experts—midwives, lactation specialists, maternal fetal medicine and other physicians, functional nutrition, movement and exercise professionals, pelvic floor physical therapy, parents, and more.  

Beloved Birth Black Centering (BBBC) is the flagship perinatal care implementation of the Beloved Birth vision. Beloved Birth Collective was formed as a grassroots community collective in 2020. The Collective’s goal was to collaborate with Alameda County Public Health Department and Alameda Health System as community-led experts in the creation of BBBC. In 2025 the Beloved Birth Collective grew into a nonprofit organization to expand its capacity to support additional systems, partners, and communities as they adopt proven strategies and best practices.

Midwifery care is the foundation of the Beloved Birth Transformation approach—not an add-on. Decades of evidence show that midwifery-led care improves experiences, outcomes, reduces unnecessary interventions, promotes equity, and lowers costs—especially when care is continuous and community-centered. 

Midwives lead routine care, with physicians as essential partners if additional medical intervention is needed. This team-based approach ensures that care is right-sized and timely—preserving the benefits of midwifery care while guaranteeing seamless access to medical expertise and intervention if complications arise.

We do not offer perinatal care services. We offer a framework for birth care transformation. Beloved Birth Black Centering (BBBC), our community’s flagship group perinatal care program, proves what works. We help health systems, communities, and institutions adopt and sustain these models and practices at scale.

We redesign birth care by changing how care is built, who delivers it, and how systems and communities learn and evolve in partnership.

We work within three focus areas:

• Perinatal Care Design: building and implementing community-centered care models with supporting curriculum

• Liberated Workforce: growing, supporting, and sustaining a midwifery-led workforce 

• Knowledge Creation & Systems Change: generating evidence, shaping policy, and building a movement for equitable birth care

We don’t just advocate for better care—we show how to build it. Beloved Birth pairs lived experience with co-design and implementation expertise. We offer a tested roadmap and model that integrates proven strategies public health and healthcare delivery systems can actually adopt, measure, and sustain.

Developed by a Black team to address disparities impacting Black birthing families, the Beloved Birth framework is designed to work for all. Beloved Birth Black Centering (BBBCS) (BBBC), our community’s flagship implementation, is a racially concordant model with a Black team centering care for Black families. However, the Beloved Birth Transformation framework can be adapted to center any community seeking safe, empowering,  high-quality, family-centered care.

Our proven framework for birth care transformation addresses the maternal and infant health crisis causing large numbers of preventable pregnancy related complications and deep racism-based disparities. Our flagship implementation, Beloved Birth Black Centering (BBBC), is the only model of its kind.  BBBC brings together a county public health department, safety-net healthcare delivery system, and community collaborators to co-design and implement a holistic perinatal care and birth equity solution integrating every evidence-based strategy families need to thrive. 

Built on a foundation of evidence-based strategies, the Beloved Birth framework is already proven by our flagship program. Through rigorous third-party evaluation,  Birth Black Centering (BBBC) has demonstrated measurable improvements in birth outcomes, patient experience, and trust in care. Our model has been tested and proven in a real public health and safety-net healthcare system, and designed to scale—making it both effective and investable.

You can inquire about joining the Beloved Birth Collective by reaching out through our website or at our events. We love collaboration and welcome new members who share our vision and want to contribute their skills and expertise to this important work. 

We don't provide direct perinatal care ourselves, but we can help you find or advocate for it close to home. If you're in Alameda County, you may be able to get a spot in a Beloved Birth Black Centering group by reaching out directly through Alameda Health System’s Centering enrollment coordinator at (510) 847-1893 and/or emailing centering@alamedahealthsystem.org. If you're elsewhere, ask your local health system or clinic whether they offer midwifery-led, community centered group prenatal care, and feel free to share Beloved Birth Collective's resources with your provider as a starting point for that conversation.