I think number one is knowing the history and the context of where people come from in their particular story or situation, and how their home or their community or family has moved through that trauma that they've been through. Also, it's recognizing the diversity of our communities in terms of how we share and learn and bring babies into the world in a way that is traditional to us, and what that looks like. I think it's just being genuine in the care that we're providing and understanding the historical context, and then the knowledge about those ceremonies and that commitment.
We always say, we know when we're walking this road that there's so much we need to learn. We need that openness to continue to learn those stories and to support families, in parenthood and childbirth, to have the birth that is reflective of what their community knows and where they've come from. In order to do that there has to be an understanding of their history and their specific community.
At Shkagamik-Kwe we have a whole traditional team. All of our clients access both midwifery and physician OB care when and if needed, and vice versa. Those with high-risk pregnancies also have access to traditional support and midwifery care so that we can normalize birth and make it a safer experience for families.
That's very much the role that I take on at Shkagamik-Kwe. I look after every woman who comes through that door so they're not turned away from midwifery care, they're not turned away from having care, like Buffy talked about. Their practice has to cap. We don't do that. Anybody who comes in has the support of the midwife, our obstetrician or our nursing, our traditional team and program.
We land in this urban centre, and we come from all different parts of Turtle Island. Wherever they come from, we are supporting the knowledge and the stories of each individual family, and how we can help them have the safest birth in terms of, obviously, medical safety, but also safety in terms of how they give birth to and care for their little one.