Objectives

Casa Compasiva

Objectives (updated OCT 2019)

YEARS EIGHT TO TEN:

Add two new Doulas to the team.
Establish operational budget and progress towards financial balance of local expenses with local income
Begin fundraising for purchase of land or permanent housing for the birth center
Achieve financial independence
Concentrate foreign donations on scholarships for births and/or midwifery education
Begin process of Official Recognition for our Midwifery Training Program

YEARS SIX TO TEN:

Continue progress toward financial balance of income and expenses
Achieve financial independence
Celebrate transfer of birth center authority to local Mexican directorship
Withdraw most foreign involvement; continue limited consultant relationship only
Explore possibility of reproducing daughter birth centers in other Mexican locations

YEAR FIVE OBJECTIVES:

Move towards goal of balancing local expenses with local income
Begin second year of mentoring program, supervising local midwives teaching a small group of new midwife students
Gradually transfer supervisory and teaching roles from foreign to local midwives, as skills and experience increase
Evaluate staff and students for potential grooming of local Mexican birth center director; begin training process

YEAR FOUR OBJECTIVES:

Increase birth volume
Begin to offer well-woman exams
Celebrate first graduating students from Midwifery Program
Begin mentoring midwifery graduates into teaching positions
Revise and implement birth center practices and policies
Evaluate effectiveness of Midwifery Program didactic and apprenticeship training; adjust objectives and strategies for greater success

YEAR THREE OBJECTIVES:

Continue to decrease need of foreign funding through expanded birth volume and increased dependence on local health personnel
Streamline community outreach approach providing resources, volunteer labor, and instruction to local clinics, communities, hospitals, and health care professionals
Begin second year of didactic midwifery training for first 2 or more midwifery students
Continue apprenticeship of midwifery students, adding approximately 2 or more each year
Train local personnel to co-ordinate and direct continued community outreach and home health care visits
Implement classes for local indigenous people on basic maternal and child health

YEAR TWO OBJECTIVES:

Expand operations to provide care for 5 births per month (prenatal care, labor & delivery care, postpartum care, well-woman care, home health care, lactation consulting, basic hygienic training)
Initiate educational opportunities, offering workshops (“talleres”) in various settings such as Health Centers, municipality centers, village settings, etc.
Begin Midwifery Apprenticeship Program for at least two local Mexican women
Finalize and implement Midwifery Training Program didactic curriculum
Begin to move toward decreased need of foreign funding through reasonable birth fees

YEAR ONE OBJECTIVES:

Set up birth center in good operating condition
Develop operating protocols, prepare administration and documentation forms
Establish compliance with local and federal health regulations
Provide orientation and training for one local midwife, one doctor, 1 nurse, 2 assistants
Research and development of Midwifery Training Program
Provide care for approximately 1-2 births per month (prenatal care, labor & delivery care,postpartum care, well-woman care, home health care, lactation consulting, basic hygienic training)
Initiate contact, interaction, and community service with local hospitals, clinics, and care providers

Casa Compasiva