Meet the new regional trainers. (Go Ask ALACE).As an effort to bring the ALACE ALACE Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer ALACE Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators ALACE Association of Local Authority Chief Executives (UK) Labor Assistant Training to more women every year, we have just hired four new workshop trainers. They will each teach 3-5 workshops a year in their regions. They will also help ALACE to have a continuous presence in their communities. In this way, we hope to increase people's familiarity with the ALACE programs and ALACE childbirth professionals. The areas of the country where they will be teaching are Massachusetts (Shannon Brophy), Missouri (DeeDee Farris Folkerts), Idaho/Washington (Nancy Draznin), and Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, (Cordelia Hanna). Shannon Brophy Shannon has been involved in birth since 1987, when she took a course in midwifery midwifery (mĭd`wī'fərē), art of assisting at childbirth. The term midwife for centuries referred to a woman who was an overseer during the process of delivery. In ancient Greece and Rome, these women had some formal training. , apprenticed, and became a homebirth midwife, certified by NARM NARM National Association of Recording Merchandisers NARM North American Registry of Midwives NARM National Association of Reunion Managers NARM Navy Resource Model NARM North American Reciprocal Museums NARM North Alabama Railroad Museum, Inc and in the state of Massachusetts. She has helped teach a midwifery course formerly offered by the Massachusetts Midwives Alliance. Shannon has also been a postpartum caregiver and a labor assistant. After practicing homebirth midwifery for more than a decade, Shannon retired to follow other pursuits. Now, she attends the births of her friends, taking photos and offering support, and also gives advice on breastfeeding when asked. She is the mother of Gabriel who is almost 6 and is homeschooled. His birth was short and intense, taking place at home in the bathtub. Sister midwives were present as well as her partner Victor. It was a pleasure to crawl out of the tub, go upstairs to bed, and begin the journey of motherhood. Her interests include creative pursuits such as quilting quilting, form of needlework, almost always created by women, most of them anonymous, in which two layers of fabric on either side of an interlining (batting) are sewn together, usually with a pattern of back or running (quilting) stitches that hold the layers , writing, dance, and yoga. Activism, which makes the world a better place, reading, and participating in homeschooling home·school or home-school v. home·schooled, home·school·ing, home·schools v.tr. To instruct (a pupil, for example) in an educational program outside of established schools, especially in the home. are part of how she spends her time and energy. She also is a founder of an Internet company, Yoga.com. Shannon is excited to begin teaching labor assistant workshops in the Boston area. Nancy Draznin Nancy was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She attended Rutgers University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, and went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts Noun 1. Master of Fine Arts - a master's degree in fine arts MFA master's degree - an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree degree in Creative Writing from Columbia University. After traveling extensively she married Ken Nagy. The birth of their first child, Rachel, inspired Nancy to become a homebirth midwife. Her first step in the process was to become a childbirth educator through Informed Homebirth. Nancy has taught childbirth classes in private homes and in a hospital setting. In 2000 Nancy became a Certified Labor Assistant through ALACE. She has attended over seventy births at home and in the hospital as labor assistant, midwife's assistant, and midwife. Two of her three children were born in the hospital; the last was a beautiful homebirth. Nancy and her family live near Moscow, Idaho, on the Washington state border. DeeDee Farris-Folkerts DeeDee has been a labor assistant since 1996, working in hospitals, homes, and birth centers. Seeing a huge gap in her local market, she and a friend started teaching natural childbirth natural childbirth: see birth. natural childbirth Any of the systems (e.g., the Lamaze method) of managing birth without drugs or surgery. All begin with classes to teach pregnant women about the birth process, including when to push and what education classes out of their homes in 1999. DeeDee teaches these classes both privately and for a freestanding birth center. She has been assisting a homebirth midwife since November of 1999. "Whenever I can scrape together some down time, I enjoy knitting and performing Middle Eastern dance The Middle East (Near East, Southwest Asia) has a rich and varied tradition of dance, spanning all of the Arab world, Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and also much of Central Asia and South Asia. with my troupe, Hali Hukh," says DeeDee. DeeDee and her husband, Chad have been together for 10 years. DeeDee has two children, Ella, age 8, and Hazel, age 3. Their family lives in Columbia, Missouri. "I am really looking forward to teaching new labor assistants. It is a joy and an honor to nurture women as they begin on the path to this most fulfilling and amazing line of work." Cordelia Hanna In 1989, Cordelia gave birth for the first time, an experience that would transform her spiritually and change the direction of her professional life. Cordelia knew she had to help other women have as positive a birth experience as she had, so she became a Certified Childbirth Educator and a Certified Labor Assistant with the Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators (ALACE) (which was Informed Homebirth/Informed Birth and Parenting at the time). For a decade, Cordelia has educated pregnant women and their partners through her childbirth preparation classes taught out of her home, clients' homes, clinics, birth centers, and hospitals throughout Los Angeles County, California Los Angeles County is a county in California and is by far the most populous county in the United States. Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau give an estimated 2006 population of 9,948,081 residents,[1] while the California State government's population bureau lists a . Cordelia has supported women in labor in all settings. Cordelia has dedicated her professional life to improving maternal and infant health in the United States through the development of professional midwifery and allied maternity care providers and the promotion of programs that are based on the midwifery model of maternity care. She is currently pursuing requirements to become a California Licensed Midwife. She is also pursuing a Master's Degree in Public Health Education (MPH) at California State University Enrollment  Northridge, where
her area of specialization is health promotion, education, and advocacy
in the arena of maternal/child health.
Cordelia currently works as a health educator for The Pasadena Public Health Department Black Infant Health Program, a project created by The California Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
Birth less than 37 weeks after conception. Infants born as early as 23–24 weeks may survive but many face lifelong disabilities (e.g., cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness). and infant mortality (hardware) infant mortality - It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical among African-Americans. She recently trained Breastfeeding Peer Counselors to work with the program's women to increase their rates of breastfeeding, and is developing a similar program for peer labor support. Cordelia and her husband, Hugh, are blessed with a daughter, Aria Eve Hanna and a son, Dylan Forest Hanna who were born at home in Los Angeles in 1989 and 1991. |
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