Haven Midwifery Collective
The mission of Haven Midwifery Collective is to provide evidence-based safe, respectable care to pregnant and non-pregnant individuals by providing options and promoting optimal health.
We’re planting the seeds for a sustainable birth center that uplifts every birthing person and family.
A Word From Our Founder
Before we begin, I (Anjanette) am currently writing from my bed. I’ve been sickish. I’ve had COVID-19 before. I feel like I have COVID-27. The 2027 strain. Technically I’m fighting against COVID symptoms, so you don’t have to. That’s a leader in the community. Only my opinion. I sound like a man named Robert. If you see me running at this event? Please call the authorities. The midwives are trying to make me a midwife. That will make me run in the opposite direction. Crocs in sports mode.
No thank you. I’m retired, and I’m really tired. I need help finding another name for this. Re-tired makes me more tired. I am in my post-career era. I’m only one month in now. Please stop asking me to deliver babies. I have COVID symptoms. Your babies deserve better. I’ll come back and visit them when I’m not COVID-27’ish. I love y’all but spraying me down with Lysol isn’t the solution. Lysol burns, let’s be serious here. Classes will be back once my fever breaks, and I take time for 9/11. Two weeks in (COVID land) and I’m hotter than a furnace. Actually, everyone is tired, so there’s that. Ok tysm.
Bloom & Breathe 5K 2026: Wellness in Motion
Each breath and each step creates a future for women and birthing people to flourish.
Join Haven Midwifery Collective as it raises capital to open a midwifery-led birth center in Brooklyn, New York.
The third annual Bloom & Breathe 5K: Wellness in Motion invites the community to walk, run, and breathe new life into maternal wellness. Every stride supports the creation of Haven’s future birth center.
Event Details
September 12, 2026 | Prospect Park, Brooklyn | 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT
Participate in person or virtually.
Registration: $54, includes a $4 fee
Registration closes: September 12, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. EDT
Register for the Haven 5K here.
As Haven Midwifery Collective enters the third year of its annual 5K fundraiser, the 2026 theme, “Bloom & Breathe,” marks both a celebration of progress and a reflection on patience.
This year’s concept symbolizes another milestone in the collective journey toward establishing a birth center, one that continues to grow through community support, advocacy, and shared care.
“Bloom & Breathe” captures this season of becoming: the balance between expansion and rest, purpose and patience. It acknowledges that growth is not instant; it unfolds over time through trust and nurturing from everyone involved.
About Haven Midwifery Collective
In 2019, Trinisha Williams formed Haven Midwifery Collective after recognizing persistent health disparities affecting pregnant people and the need for greater access to community birth. Haven was founded on principles of evidence-based midwifery care and expanded options for birthing families.
The mission of Haven Midwifery Collective is to provide safe, respectful, evidence-based care to pregnant and non-pregnant individuals while expanding options and promoting optimal health.
Haven envisions becoming a recognized leader in client- and family-centered primary, wellness, maternity, and lactation care. Its vision also includes creating learning opportunities for midwifery and nursing education, improving and maintaining the health of the communities it serves, utilizing a collaborative approach to care, fostering a positive work culture, and supporting and investing in its community.
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While legislation to allow midwives to open their own birth centers passed in 2016, the regulations through the Certificate of Need process have exposed the costly bureaucracy with the process.”
Community Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic brought extraordinary disruption to maternity care in New York City and intensified conversations surrounding access to out-of-hospital birth.
During the pandemic, hospitals confronted PPE and staffing shortages while restrictions sometimes limited the presence of partners, doulas, and other support people during childbirth. At the same time, some families sought alternatives to hospital birth, increasing interest in home and community-based maternity care.
For Haven, the pandemic further demonstrated the importance of expanding meaningful options for low-risk birthing people while preserving hospital resources and specialized care for those with higher-risk pregnancies.
Haven Midwifery Collective continues its efforts to establish a birth center and expand access to community-based maternity care in Brooklyn. Community donations and fundraising through events such as Bloom & Breathe support that work.
Meet the Founder: Trinisha Williams
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Trinisha Williams is a licensed midwife with more than two decades of experience in maternal healthcare across hospital, birth center, and home settings.
Trinisha Williams is a Brooklyn native and the Founder and President of Haven Midwifery Collective. Trinisha has supported more than 1,000 births throughout her career. Her work extends beyond direct clinical care into advocacy, mentorship, midwifery education, and efforts to improve access to birth center care.
Williams has also held national leadership within the American Association of Birth Centers, bringing her experience in community birth into broader conversations surrounding maternity care and birth center accessibility.
Her work reflects Haven’s larger purpose: creating a safe haven rooted in respectful, evidence-based care, improving the quality of life in our communities one family at a time, and nurturing a space where love grows, families flourish, and communities become stronger. Trinisha is a living legend who effortlessly breathes life into every individual and family that crosses paths with her. Please send all your love and well wishes to Trinisha as she leads the way in Brooklyn, New York, building a future where community birth is not simply an alternative, but an accessible, respected, and deeply rooted part of maternal care. We will all attend the ribbon cutting ceremony with tears in our eyes. Our communities deserve this. We deserve this. Thank you for being here as we witness what happens when vision, community, and unwavering purpose come together to create something bigger than any one of us.
Haven Midwifery hopes to decolonize birth by utilizing the birth center model led by midwives. Decolonization is about “cultural, psychological, and economic freedom” for Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) to achieve racial and social justice and equity– the right and ability of BIPOC people to practice self-determination over their bodies, minds, land, cultures, families, communities, and political and economic systems. Colonialism is a historical and ongoing global phenomenon where settlers continue to occupy land, dictate social, political, and economic systems, and exploit BIPOC people and their resources. It is a global infection that has a planetary impact and has destabilized and/or erased entire communities and cultures.