SCHOOL OF MIDWIFERY
Welcome to the Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery
The Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery is dedicated to preparing a workforce of culturally congruent and respectful community midwives. Midwives, birthing persons and their families will gain knowledge of the JJ Way®, a midwifery model of care that improves health and birth outcomes.
January 2027 Cohort
Now open to Florida, Rhode Island & California residents
Mission
The mission of Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery (CCSM) is to provide quality, practical, and culturally sensitive midwifery training and education that will prepare midwives of caliber who can represent themselves and their profession in any arena.
We aim to inspire our students to become perinatal leaders in the maternal-child health field, willing to provide access to respectful maternity care for all communities with an emphasis on eliminating health disparities through the education and empowerment of women and families so that they can once again safely experience “their birth, their way”.
Vision
We envision a maternity care climate saturated with culturally sensitive and racially congruent care that results in equitable and superior outcomes in maternal and infant health for all populations. We seek to reach as many as we can because there is no time to lose. We are in the business of saving lives. In order to achieve our vision we seek to open a pathway for midwives of color to again become autonomous community providers, to address and redress the historical, structural and institutional inequities that continue to decimate Black and indigenous people, and to restore trusted birth workers to the heart of their communities once again.
A Model Built to Travel
CCSM didn’t start in Florida because Florida needed less. We started here because this is where the work began — and because every maternity care desert in this country, whether it’s a rural county with no obstetric unit or a city neighborhood with plenty of hospitals and not enough trust, needs the same thing: a midwife trained inside the community she serves, and accountable to it.
Beginning January 2027, that training is opening to aspiring midwives in Florida, Rhode Island, and California — one model, three starting points. Here’s how we got here, and where we’re going next.
Why Choose CCSM
Founder & President Jennie Joseph, LM, CPM. Creator of The JJ Way®. Learn about our model.