Indigenous Midwifery
Bachelor of Health and Sciences Degree
Status: In Development
The Indigenous Midwifery program is a four-year degree rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, relating, doing and being. The program prepares learners to provide culturally grounded midwifery care through either the registered or exemption pathways (in jurisdictions where Exemption clauses exist*).
As the first accredited Indigenous midwifery bachelor’s program in Canada, the BIM program represents a groundbreaking and transformative initiative in Indigenous post-secondary education. It is designed to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, and cultural grounding necessary to become competent, confident, and community-responsive midwives and birth workers. A hallmark of the program is its wholistic approach, which integrates Indigenous Knowledge systems and cultural practices throughout the curriculum, andragogy, and student supports.
Importantly, the program recognizes and honors the diversity of Indigenous Knowledges across Turtle Island. Through its Integrated Experiential Learning Model, it engages learners with teachings and practices from their own territories wherever possible, fostering place-based, community-rooted learning experiences. By addressing the intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of learner development, the program nurtures well-rounded leaders prepared to provide culturally safe, community-centered care and to advance Indigenous self-determination in maternal and reproductive health.
* Indigenous midwives in Ontario can practice in community under the Exemption for Aboriginal midwives included the Midwifery Act, 1991, also defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991.
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