be ready to say yes
ADMIN BREAKOUT
DATE: Saturday, November 9th
TIME: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
FACULTY: Ariel Swift, BS, CD, CPD
The function of a birth center is an ongoing balance of managing the day-to-day needs along with planning for future growth, projects, and community care. What does the work look like to be ready when there is a person asking to support your mission and growth? We’ll explore how to have appropriately sized support opportunities ready when the help becomes available.
Ariel Swift, BS, CD, CPD
Ariel Swift, BS, CD, CPD
Ariel (she/her) is the Director of Outreach and Education for Birth Partners, INC. After being hired to help open Chicago’s First Freestanding birth center, Birth Center of Chicago, in 2020, she joined the parent company in 2022 to help expand programming across all of BPI’s centers.
Ariel has been an entrepreneur, doula, and educator for the past 12 years, bringing creative energy and practical applications to help solve unique problems birth centers experience. Ariel also works to share awareness of how birth centers are essential to reducing maternal mortality rates while advocating for increases in Medicaid reimbursements and other key legislative solutions to reduce obstacles for birth centers across the country.
Ariel lives on the South Side of Chicago with her two midwife-caught children, husband, and a small herd of cats.
