Sara Wolfe Explained

Sara Wolfe
Nationality:Brunswick House First Nation, Canadian
Education:Rotman School of Management
Occupation:nurse, midwife, healthcare advocate
Years Active:1999–present
Known For:Indigenous midwifery

Sara Wolfe (born 1973) is an Anishnawbe registered nurse, registered midwife.[1] [2] She is the director of the Indigenous Innovation Initiative at Grand Challenges Canada.

Wolfe is founding partner of Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto,[3] which is a group of midwives who offer maternity care to women, particularly those from Toronto's downtown area and from the Indigenous community.[4] Wolfe was a co-lead on the midwifery-led and Indigenous-governed Toronto Birth Centre.[5] Wolfe is Anishnawbe (Ojibway) from the Brunswick House First Nation in northern Ontario.[6] [7] [8]

Education

Wolfe earned her master’s in business administration from the Rotman School of Management[6] at the University of Toronto.

Career

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

Wolfe, with her fellow Indigenous midwifery students Cheryllee Bourgeois and Ellen Blais, started the Toronto Aboriginal Midwives Initiative in 2002, and held community meetings and consultations to determine what the Native community wanted and needed.[9]

She worked as a midwife for the Midwives Collective Toronto[10] from 2003 to 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. The Toronto Birth Centre provides pre-natal classes, labour, birth and postpartum care, complimentary breast-feeding support, massage therapy and nutritional counselling. [11]

In collaboration with St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Wolfe and Seventh Generation Midwives took on a three-year research project to address infant mortality and child removal rates that are higher in Indigenous communities compared to the general population in Canada. Called The Baby Bundle Project, the goal of the research was to improve services for Indigenous families. While identifying barriers to access, the research also worked to identify and provide for mothers' needs, such as midwifery, housing, counselling, or culturally specific traditions.[12] [13]

Wolfe co-led a four-year research project about Indigenous people in Toronto that identified undercounting by Statistics Canada.[14] [15] [16]

In 2020, the Indigenous Innovation Initiative, of which Sara Wolfe is the director, was launched. The goal is to promote Indigenous economic participation and innovation [17]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Mothers of the Nations: Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming and Recovery . Anderson, Kim, 1964-, Lavell-Harvard, D. Memee . 9781926452364. Bradford, Ontario. 959328002.
  2. News: Lee-Shanok. Philip . Jan 8, 2019 . New Regent Park program provides holistic support for new Indigenous moms. CBC.
  3. https://www.sgmt.ca/ Seventh Generation Midwives
  4. News: New report finds critical gap in data about Toronto's urban Indigenous community. CBC News. 2018-08-22.
  5. News: Lee-Shanok. Philip. 2019-01-08. New Regent Park program provides holistic support for new Indigenous moms. CBC News. 2020-08-25.
  6. Web site: Sara Wolfe . Brookfield Institute . 15 March 2023.
  7. Web site: SGMT - Our People . www.sgmt.ca/sara-wolfe/ . 2018-08-22.
  8. News: In Ontario, midwives help with the rebirth of Indigenous pregnancy care. 2018-08-22.
  9. Web site: Midwives help bring new life to Toronto. 2018-08-22.
  10. https://www.midwivescollective.ca/ Midwives Collective Toronto
  11. Web site: Ontario Newsroom . 2022-05-18 . news.ontario.ca.
  12. Web site: Easton. Megan. 2019-04-24. Delivering Help to Indigenous Parents University of Toronto Magazine. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210126023752/https://magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas/health/delivering-help-to-indigenous-parents/. 2021-01-26. 2021-05-09. University of Toronto Magazine. en-US.
  13. Web site: TVO Current affairs, documentaries and education . 2022-05-18 . www.tvo.org.
  14. News: Johnson. Rhiannon. Feb 28, 2018. New report finds critical gap in data about Toronto's urban Indigenous community. CBC.
  15. News: Carter. Adam. Sep 30, 2021. Indigenous people in Toronto badly undercounted by census, but experts hopeful for change. CBC.
  16. News: 2018-01-24. Opinion Census vastly undercounts Indigenous population in Toronto, study says. en-CA. The Toronto Star. 2021-11-03. 0319-0781.
  17. Web site: Zingel . Avery . May 13, 2020 . Indigenous Innovation Initiative will award up to $250K to projects for gender equality . May 18, 2022 . CBC News.

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