The SE Health First Nations, Inuit and Métis Program is pleased to invite you to a FREE 2-part webinar series exploring Maternal and Child Health with the Kenhtè:ke Midwives and the Family Stewardship Centre!
This webinar series is intended for healthcare and community care providers working with Indigenous families and communities including nurses, midwives, physicians, social workers, community health representatives, and other allied health professionals. It may also be of interest to learners, practitioners and community members interested in Indigenous-led midwifery, maternal and child health, and family stewardship, as well as anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of culturally safe, community-grounded approaches to maternal and child care.
Registration for these two webinars are required. Please use the links below to register.
This webinar will share the story of how the Kenhtè:ke Midwives came to be, how they have grown through community successes and lessons learned, and how they continue to provide Indigenous midwifery and family care to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis families on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and in surrounding communities.
This webinar will explore Family Stewardship, created to support both birthing and non-birthing parents during our greatest transformation: becoming parents. Participants will learn about the intention of increasing family cohesion and reducing intimate partner violence and share how Family Stewards work to bring ceremony back to all of life’s thresholds. The presenter will share the sense of pride in establishing a new profession of folks who support families from birthing in ceremony to becoming ancestors. and how they are calling in partners, parents, and aspiring Family Stewards to join in a new way of birthing families. Together we’re offering families education, relational care, community, and ceremony across all of life’s thresholds.
Registration is required for these events. Please use the links below to register:
Click here to register for Webinar 1 (May 11, 2026)
Click here to register for Webinar 2 (May 25, 2026)
I am Mohawk, Turtle Clan from Kenhtè:ke (Tyendinaga) and I am a midwife at Kenhtè:ke Midwives. I have been working and learning at Kenhtè:ke Midwives since we opened our doors in May 2012 and prior to becoming a Midwife I was a birth doula here in our community.
It was my older sister that first introduced me to midwifery when she had her first child in 2004. With the help of her Midwife, she had her first child at home surrounded by family who sang our new baby into this world and I was hooked. I was very interested in birth and by the time I had my own children, both with the support of Midwives, I knew that I was a Midwife waiting to be trained.
It is who I am. It is where I fit in my community. I am proud to call Kenhtè:ke home and am now raising my own family here. My husband and I are both from Kenhtè:ke and are raising our two children active in the Kanyen’kéha language and culture. Our girls are both first language Mohawk speakers and I hope that one day they will have the opportunity to raise their children in the language as well. I am excited and honored to be helping families bring their babies into the world in whichever way is best for them and helping parents and babies start their lives together confidently!
I am the Administrative Lead at Kenhtè:ke Midwives, bringing over 12 years of experience in Administration and Human Resources within Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. I am serving my second term as a Councillor with Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and currently hold the portfolio of Health & Social programs. With an educational background in health sciences, I am proud to combine my skills and knowledge in a role that supports Indigenous health and wellbeing, and the health of our community.
I am Mohawk, and Wolf Clan from here in Tyendinaga. Working in my own community for my people is both an honour and a responsibility I hold close. I live here in Tyendinaga with my husband and two children, and I am deeply committed to helping build a strong, culturally grounded future for the next generations.
Jace Poirier Lacerte is the founder of the Family Stewardship Centre and COYA Productions Inc., and is a practicing birth worker dedicated to restoring ceremony, relational support, and community across life’s most important transitions. A mixed-heritage, Métis educator and systems thinker, Jace brings together lived experience, social impact leadership, and birthwork to reimagine how families are supported from birth through becoming ancestors.
Her work is grounded in the COYA philosophy — Contribute Our Gifts, Own Our Actions, Yearn for Growth, and Act on Legacy — a framework for understanding the multigenerational impact of how we live, parent, and lead. Jace is leading the development of Family Stewardship as an emerging profession, working alongside universities, health systems, and communities to train Family Stewards who guide families through life’s thresholds with education, ceremony, and community-based care.
She is a sought-after keynote speaker, known for bridging systems change with deeply human, embodied experiences of transformation. Notably, Jace is Charlie’s mama.