Get to Know Us
What is the NCDA?
The National Collaboration for Doula Access (NCDA) is a membership-based charitable organization dedicated to representing and empowering doulas across Canada who are Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority (BIPGM). We elevate the work of community-based doulas ensuring that their voices and practices shape the future of reproductive care. NCDA believes that when BIPGM doulas are supported and resourced, communities thrive, and individuals and families experience care that is culturally grounded, affirming, and anti-oppressive.
What We Do
Birthwork as liberation
Our mission is to address the challenges doulas face in providing services and the barriers their clients encounter in accessing care. NCDA practices the principles of trust-based funding and community-led advocacy to enable our members to sustain their work. Our members and the individuals and families they support belong to socio-economic communities that experience systemic oppression and marginalization.
Our Operations
Community Oriented
NCDA uses a membership-model of charitable governance to ensure a commitment to shared values among its members, equitable and fair representation for its members on all decision-making bodies including: staff and contractors, board of directors, sub-committees, and fund advisors. All individuals in these roles must maintain good standing as a member of NCDA.
Who we are
Our Team
The NCDA is an amalgamation of folks with lived experiences surrounding full spectrum birthwork and reproductive care experiences. We are all proudly committed to the abundance, joy, and care of all those who are systemically marginalized and deliberately oppressed.