Professional Training Courses
Improving Care for LGBTQ+ Families Everywhere
Enhance your professional practice
Create a welcoming, affirming and proficient care environment for LGBTQ+ families
Our professional courses are designed to support care providers and birth workers who serve our families around the world. Broaden your reproductive justice proficiency with our online modules Providing Culturally Sensitive Care for LGBTQ+ Families, with specialized content for doulas, childbirth educators, midwives and midwifery leaders. Author Liam Kali's IUI Provider Course is the most in-depth, comprehensive training course available for midwives and reproductive health care providers. Graduates of our training program can access the updated course platform and benefit from peer case review in our monthly IUI Provider Consult Group.
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SERVE LGBTQ+ FAMILIES WELL
Courses for Childbirth Professionals
LEARN FERTILITY CARE & IUI
IUI Provider Course
The most in-depth, comprehensive advanced practice course for midwives, nurse practitioners, and physicians who are seeking current, evidence-based training in preconception care and therapeutic donor insemination. Author and course instructor Liam Kali draws on 18 years of clinical experience and current research applied through a lens of queer/trans relevancy, trauma informed care and body positivity. The course consists of 6 live, online sessions, plus a significant volume of readings, video recordings, and quizzes to test your comprehension and apply your learning through sample cases. Currently approved for 20 ACNM CME units. Live sessions are held on select Mondays in Spring and Fall from 11am-1pm Pacific time. Cost: $1600 per provider – email us to inquire about group practice discounts. BIPOC midwives are encouraged to use the 50% reparations discount code BIPOC50.
Topics covered:
- Evidence-Based Management of TDI
- Preconception Care for Donor Conception
- Physiological Insemination Timing
- Fertile Health for Every Body
- Known Donors & Sperm Banks
- IUI Technique & Sample Preparation (Sperm Washing)
- Complications and When to Refer
- Professional Issues & Establishing Your IUI Practice
CONNECT WITH IUI PROVIDERS NATIONWIDE
IUI Provider Consult Group
Since creating the first IUI course for midwives in 2016, Liam Kali has updated and expanded the course materials significantly. Graduates of our course can get 30 day access to the newest course platform with vital research to keep your practice current. Every 4 weeks, you can join the online IUI Provider Consult Group to connect with a network of IUI providers across geographical areas, from a range of experience. Benefit from peer case review, stay up to date with emerging evidence, gain clinical insights and share logistical tips. Get the support you deserve as you continue developing your IUI practice.
WELCOMING & AFFIRMING
Providing Culturally Sensitive Care for LGBTQ+ Families
Deepen your understanding of the uniqueness of conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum for LGBTQ+ people who are building family through pregnancy. Learn at your own pace and become a better informed care provider, educator or doula, with the confidence to offer insightful and culturally sensitive care.
This course explores the diverse nature of LGBTQ family structures and examines issues that commonly arise for gestational parents, nongestational parents, and in relationships from conception through early parenting. It walks you through the steps involved in getting pregnant, including deciding who will conceive, choosing a donor, interacting with fertility clinics, inseminating, and undergoing IVF. You will identify ways that gender identity and expression may shift throughout pregnancy, birth and infant feeding, and the interplay between sexual identity, gender identity, pregnancy and birth. This course offers guidance for creating a welcoming and affirming practice and CEU's through the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (7 contact hours).
Topics covered:
LGBTQ+ Conception and Pregnancy
Caring for Transgender and Genderqueer Clients with Cultural Humility
Specialized Content for Doulas
Specialized Content for Childbirth Educators
Specialized Content for Midwives
Specialized Content for Midwifery Educators and Leaders
BOOK LIAM
Public Speaking
Liam Kali, LM is a warm and engaging speaker who delivers professionalism and expertise with a down-to-earth, personable style. Liam has a knack for breaking down complex topics into an easily understandable form. Liam is an authoritative resource on LGBTQ+ conception and pregnancy, single parenting by choice, midwifery model fertility care, and donor insemination. See Liam's past speaking events.
Liam is available for public speaking to a broad variety of audiences, including university courses, local organizations, national conferences, and keynote presentations. Book midwife, author, fertility specialist, and queer family building expert Kristin Liam Kali, LM for your next event by contacting Nikki Sprinkle, Publicist at Sasquatch Books.
BENEFITS & VALUE
Learning that will enhance your practice for years to come
Celebrate LGBTQ+ Families
Many providers make the mistake of thinking queer and trans families are just like any other family, which is an extremely limited view that ultimately leaves us feeling erased. Find out what makes our experiences of conception, pregnancy, birth and parenting unique. Do your part to center the queer and trans folks in your practice by learning how to serve us well, no matter your role in the birth community.
Cultivate Gender Inclusivity
Gender inclusivity is not just for transgender people, although a gender inclusive practice is absolutely necessary if you intend to care for LGBTQ+ families. For instance, when we use the word “mother” to refer only to pregnant and birthing individuals, we marginalize nongestational lesbian mothers and transgender mothers, as well as those who are pregnant and do not identify as mothers at all. And given that family acceptance is the single most protective factor for transgender youth, modeling trans positivity and using gender inclusive language throughout your practice can benefit any family in your care.
Earn Continuing Education Credits
Our online courses are an accessible way to earn CEUs! Providing Culturally Sensitive Care for LGBTQ+ Families is approved for 7 hours of CEUs from the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council and satisfies the “cultural awareness” requirement for CPM certification through the North American Registry of Midwives. The IUI Provider Course is approved for 20 hours of CMEs from the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
Improve Patient Outcomes
IUI Provider Course participants will learn how to time inseminations in sync with each person’s unique ovulation pattern, shortening the time to pregnancy and avoiding costly interventions such as IVF. Your clients will receive robust preconception care to support fertility and prevent common complications of pregnancy, as well as specific considerations for donor conception.
Become a Preferred IUI Provider
Those who successfully complete the IUI Provider Course will be added to our Preferred IUI Provider referral list. You will benefit from the broad outreach capacity of Maia Midwifery and Fertility Services, as well as reaching families who are encouraged to seek providers through our website in Liam Kali’s book, Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be.
Build a Network of Professional Peers
IUI Provider Course participants have an opportunity for networking during live class sessions. Course participants practice in various settings across the United States and become colleagues in this important work.
Frequently Asked Questions
I’m a student midwife. Can I attend the IUI Provider Course?
The IUI Provider Course is only for practicing midwives who have completed their midwifery education. Focus on getting through school, then take this course. You will get so much more out of it when you are no longer juggling the demands of midwifery school!
We have a group practice. Can we get a discounted rate on your courses?
Yes, we will provide a group discount on Providing Culturally Sensitive Care for LGBTQ+ Families. The IUI Provider Course is priced per provider, and discounted rates are available for BIPOC midwives only. There are no group discounts on the IUI Provider Course.
Are the courses designed to go at your own pace?
Providing Culturally Sensitive Care for LGBTQ+ Families is completely self-directed and at-your-own-pace, however you will need to complete the course within one calendar year. The IUI Provider Course includes specific readings to complete over each two week period between live sessions, as well as assignments that must be submitted on time. Anticipate dedicating 5 hours per week to the course, with scheduled live sessions every other week.
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Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be
This groundbreaking guide by trusted fertility midwife Kristin Liam Kali includes sidebars with guidance for reproductive healthcare professionals.
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You will glean a great deal of insight by witnessing the transmission of information provided for families in this book. Consider this the preceptorship you never had.