Sara Wolfe

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Sara Wolfe (born 1973) is an Anishnawbe midwife[1][2] and founding partner of Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto, which is a group of midwives who offer maternity care to women, particularly those from Toronto's downtown area and from the Indigenous community.[3] Wolfe was a co-lead on the midwifery- led and Indigenous governed, Toronto Birth Centre.[4] Wolfe is Anishnawbe (Ojibway) with family ties to Brunswick House First Nation, Nishnawbe Aski Nation.[5][6]

Career[]

From 1999-2003 Wolfe was an Outpost Nurse in Sioux Lookout and Moose Factory.

Wolfe with fellow Aboriginal midwifery students Cheryllee Bourgeois and Ellen Blais she started the Toronto Aboriginal Midwives Initiative in 2002, and held community meetings and consultations to determine what the Native community wanted and needed.[7]

She worked as a midwife for the Midwives Collective Toronto from 2003–2005. She was Head Midwife in the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sunnybrook Women's College Hospital from 2005 to January 2012. From November 2012 to December 2013 she was Interim Executive Director and Midwife Project Co-Lead at the Toronto Birth Centre Inc.

Wolfe is also part of an initiative, called the Baby Bundle Project, to provide Indigenous mothers with holistic care during pregnancy, birth, and for six months after birth. This initiative is an Indigenous-led research project through the University of Toronto that identifies mothers' needs and attempts to fill them in culturally-sensitive ways, whether they be midwifery, housing, counselling, or addictions treatment.[8]

Wolfe co-led a four year research project about Indigenous people in Toronto that identified undercounting by Statistics Canada.[9][10][11]

Select bibliography[]

  • Firestone, Michelle; Maddox, Raglan; O'Campo, Patricia; Smylie, Janet; Bourgeois, Cheryllee; Wolfe, Sara; Snelling, Susan; Manson, Heather; McKnight, Constance; Hebert, Jeanne; Boyer, Roger; Warry, Wayne; van Wagner, Vicki (2020). "Indigenous Health Service Evaluation: Principles and Guidelines from a Provincial "Three Ribbon" Expert Panel". Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. 34 (3): 413–424. doi:10.3138/cjpe.68831. ISSN 0834-1516.
  • Kitching, George Tjensvoll; Firestone, Michelle; Schei, Berit; Wolfe, Sara; Bourgeois, Cheryllee; O'Campo, Patricia; Rotondi, Michael; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Maddox, Raglan; Smylie, Janet (February 2020). "Unmet health needs and discrimination by healthcare providers among an Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada". Canadian Journal of Public Health. 111 (1): 40–49. doi:10.17269/s41997-019-00242-z. ISSN 0008-4263.

References[]

  1. ^ Mothers of the nations : indigenous mothering as global resistance, reclaiming and recovery. Anderson, Kim, 1964-, Lavell-Harvard, D. Memee (Dawn Memee), 1974-. Bradford, Ontario. ISBN 9781926452364. OCLC 959328002.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Lee-Shanok, Philip (Jan 8, 2019). "New Regent Park program provides holistic support for new Indigenous moms". CBC.
  3. ^ "New report finds critical gap in data about Toronto's urban Indigenous community". CBC News. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  4. ^ Lee-Shanok, Philip (2019-01-08). "New Regent Park program provides holistic support for new Indigenous moms". CBC News. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  5. ^ "SGMT - Our People". www.sgmt.ca/sara-wolfe/. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  6. ^ "In Ontario, midwives help with the rebirth of Indigenous pregnancy care". Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  7. ^ "Midwives help bring new life to Toronto". Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  8. ^ Easton, Megan (2019-04-24). "Delivering Help to Indigenous Parents | University of Toronto Magazine". University of Toronto Magazine (in American English). Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
  9. ^ Johnson, Rhiannon (Feb 28, 2018). "New report finds critical gap in data about Toronto's urban Indigenous community". CBC.
  10. ^ Carter, Adam (Sep 30, 2021). "Indigenous people in Toronto badly undercounted by census, but experts hopeful for change". CBC.
  11. ^ "Opinion | Census vastly undercounts Indigenous population in Toronto, study says". The Toronto Star (in Canadian English). 2018-01-24. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
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