Building pathways: Tamara Cascagnette on community engagement and the growth of Indigenous midwifery in Ontario
Date: December 16, 2025
Tamara Cascagnette has spent the past year crisscrossing the province, helping communities explore what it means to bring birth home. As Community Engagement and Outreach Specialist with the AOM's Indigenous Midwifery team, her work supports communities considering Indigenous Midwifery Programs (IMPs), gathers input from Elders and families and strengthens the relationships that underpin this work. For Cascagnette, relationships are the foundation of her work.
Midwives host educational event in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Date: December 10, 2025
On December 8, the AOM hosted its annual midwifery education day, Midwives in the Legislative Assembly, at Queen’s Park. Midwives educated MPPs on the alignment between addressing midwifery sustainability issues and Ontario’s broader health system goals, as advocated in the AOM’s Roadmap to Health System Integration report. Political Action Lead (PAL) midwives called on MPPs to leverage midwifery expertise to ease the primary care crisis and improve access to families across the province. Midwives championed increased investments for education, support for Indigenous-led apprenticeships and expansion of midwifery-led services across the province.
Lead midwives retreat: Fostering community, leadership and systems change
Date: November 25, 2025
The Leading Change: Reconnecting with Purpose, Courage and Community professional development event in Caledon, ON, on November 4-5 offered head midwives and other midwifery leaders an opportunity to connect, share ideas and build skills to enhance midwives’ …
Midwives supporting families through loss: Highlights of PAIL's 2025 Connected in Care Conference
Date: October 7, 2025
Above photo: L-R: Tiffany Fung, RM, Jenna Bly, RM, Althea Jones, RM, and Michelle La Fontaine, Regional Manager at PAIL The Pregnancy and Infant Loss (PAIL) Network hosted its second biannual perinatal loss conference, Connected in Care, from Sep. 24-26, 2025. The event brought toget…
Bringing Birth Home: A Conversation with Dr. Karen Lawford, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) - Indigenous Midwifery
Date: September 9, 2025
Dr. Karen Lawford is an Anishinaabe midwife from Lac Seul First Nation and was recently named a Canada Research Chair (CRC) - Indigenous Midwifery at McMaster University. We spoke with her about this recognition, her research on evacuation for birth and the future of Indigenous midwifery.
Building global connections in black reproductive health
Date: July 23, 2025
[By Althea Jones, RM, AOM President.] Earlier this month, I had the honour of attending the UNFPA Global Symposium for Bridging the Gap in Sexual and Reproductive Health of African Descent Women and Girls, held in San José, Costa Rica. It was a rare and powerful opportunity to connect with global leaders, practitioners and advocates committed to advancing Black reproductive health and justice. Representing Ontario midwives on an international stage was deeply meaningful, and a reminder that the work we do locally is part of a broader collective movement toward health equity.
AOM’s Employee Midwives Work Group evolves into Diverse Midwifery Models Committee
Date: July 23, 2025
Since its formation in 2022, the AOM’s Employee Midwife Work Group (EMWG) has been a voice for the growing number of midwives working in ways outside of the traditional billable course of care model. Originally created in response to a member proposal brought to the 2021 Annual General Meeting, the…
AOM-NPAO joint statement on midwife and nurse-practitioner collaboration
Date: July 9, 2025
The Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM) and the Nurse Practitioners’ Association of Ontario (NPAO) support collaborative practice in perinatal, sexual, reproductive and infant care. Increased access to comprehensive primary care is a shared objective and responsibility of nurse practitioners and …
National Indigenous Histories Month: Supporting Indigenous midwives in reclaiming birth
Date: June 3, 2025
June marks National Indigenous Histories Month, a time to celebrate the rich cultures and diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, commemorate their ongoing experiences on Turtle Island and meaningfully engage in reconciliation work. The AOM is committed to supporting the restoration an…
Pride Month 2025
Date: June 1, 2025
Pride is a time to honor the history, resilience and diversity of the two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (2SLGBTQI+) communities. It is a month dedicated to celebrating the courage of those who have fought for equality, safety and recognition, while also acknowledgi…