Ocama Collective

The Collective seeks to create access to cost supported full-circle and community-based birth care through the Community Circle Care offering as an imperative factor in reducing infant mortality improving childbearing and birth satisfaction and supporting maternal/parental physical mental emotional and spiritual health. In addition to cost supported pregnancy and birth care we endeavour to increase access to community-based resources for daily living and health and revitalizing ceremonial and ritual based practices that are deeply interwoven in our communities’ mental emotional physical and spiritual support. Our key goal for us to facilitate safe space for 2S trans queer non-binary genderqueer and agender folx to fully engage in pregnancy and birth care that is self-directed holistic and satisfactory We continue to offer full circle doula care (which includes care for prenatal intrapartum postpartum and perinatal loss) and lactation support to families who identify as Black Indigenous and People of Colour along the gender identity continuum. In addition to direct labour birth and postpartum supports we have supported families with health systems navigation to connect them with social services (ex. housing advocacy immigration) We have supported approximately 200 families since 2021. We collected donations of gently used newborn materials/supplies (strollers clothing breast pumps baby wraps/carriers) and distributed them to families in need.