ABOUT US

ABOUT CCSM

Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery (CCSM) was developed around principles that have driven midwifery practice worldwide: trust, respect, and necessity.

However, in the United States, midwives are faced with the challenge of not being seen as the optimum choice in providing maternity care, despite proven excellent outcomes.

CCSM is committed to fostering a community of diverse midwives to combat this false narrative and help all people to take back having “their birth their way”.

CCSM provides quality, practical, culturally-sensitive training and education that is integral to maternity health care systems by:

• assembling a training and education program that forms a measurable and competitive advantage for the midwife while promoting growth in women’s health care delivery;
• providing authentic personal and professional development with clear career paths — a strong magnet which attracts top-quality students;
• elevating the profession’s profile through robust competency training;
• ensuring that competency training has the lowest cost structure possible;
• providing genuine engagement and access to our programs for all communities and,
• educating and empowering students on the Midwifery Model of Care so they will, in turn, provide access, create connections, share knowledge, and empower birthing people and families to have “their birth, their way”.

Data supports the safety and efficacy of the midwifery model of care. America needs an urgent change in its maternity healthcare delivery system in order to address challenges of rising medical interventions, cesarean sections and healthcare costs, and high infant and maternal mortality rates. CCSM stands for that change – ‘getting to the heart of the matter’ one mother, one baby, one family at a time.

 

Thank you for joining us, and welcome!

Zulgeil Ruiz-Gines, Dean of Midwifery Program

Jennie Joseph, Founder & Board Chair

At CCSM our mission is to provide quality, practical, and culturally sensitive midwifery training and education that will prepare midwives of caliber who can represent themselves and their profession in any arena. 

We aim to inspire our students to become perinatal leaders in the maternal-child health field, willing to provide access to respectful maternity care for all communities with an emphasis on eliminating health disparities through the education and empowerment of women and families so that they can once again safely experience “their birth, their way”.