Member Benefits

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Get the professional tools and legislative advocacy you need to support California families.

The overwhelming majority of CALM members surveyed tell us that these benefits are an excellent value.

 

CALM membership means you have the professional tools and legislative advocacy you need to support California families.

Member Benefits Include:

  • Ensuring the best possible legislation for California midwifery

    through a proactive legislative agenda and lobbying activities

  • Resources to keep you up-to-date on the issues that impact you as a licensed midwife

    including our newsletter and legislative updates

  • Making sure your voice is heard at the meetings that matter most

    including representation at MAC, regulatory hearings, interested parties and MBC meetings

  • Quality Improvement Program Under Protected Peer Review

    California licensed midwives now have protected peer review under the umbrella of CALM, which is the foundation for CALM's quality improvement program. Details coming soon.

  • Licensed Midwife Badge

    available ONLY to midwife members (Associate; Associate of Color; Licensed Midwife; Licensed Midwife of Color; Newly Licensed Associate; Newly Licensed Midwife), not students.
    Click here to request your ID Badge.

  • Education on timely topics

    to inform your midwifery practice

  • Tools to help families find you

    including a listing on the CALM Find a Midwife page

  • Ask CALM Anything monthly call

    from “What’s up with current legislation?” to “Where do I order Rhogam?” (For new and seasoned midwives alike)

  • Continuing education

    evidence-informed, based on the midwifery model of care

  • Discounts for your practice

    including malpractice insurance, Rhogam and tele-medicine for your client referrals

Our initiatives in 2023-24:

  • Working with midwives from around the state to create a supportive, midwife-centered quality improvement program
  • Developing a roster of professional CEU webinars
  • Piloting Case Review under protected peer review for CALM members
  • Developing CALM Transitions
  • Continued advocacy for an independent Licensed Midwife Board
  • Continued policy advocacy for Medi-Cal and Birth Centers
  • Initiative to start CPM/LM education and training in California Community Colleges

95% of CALM members surveyed said they would recommend membership to other CA midwives.

Benefits designed to meet your needs, whether you are a new, seasoned, retired, or student midwife.

Associate Member

$200 /year
$20 /month*
  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Qualifies for Birth Center Division Membership
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • Listing on the Find A Midwife Tool
  • Licensed Midwife Badge
  • COVID-19 Info for CA Midwives
  • Resources to keep you up-to-date on the issues that impact you as a licensed midwife

Newly Licensed Midwife

$100 /year
$10 /month
  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Qualifies for Birth Center Division Membership
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • Listing on the Find A Midwife Tool
  • Voting Rights
  • Licensed Midwife Badge
  • COVID-19 Info for CA Midwives
  • Resources to keep you up-to-date on the issues that impact you as a licensed midwife

Newly Associate Member

$100 /year
$10 /month
  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Qualifies for Birth Center Division Membership
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • Listing on the Find A Midwife Tool
  • Licensed Midwife Badge
  • COVID-19 Info for CA Midwives
  • Resources to keep you up-to-date on the issues that impact you as a licensed midwife

Licensed Midwife

$200 /year
$20 /month
  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Qualifies for Birth Center Division Membership
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • Listing on the Find A Midwife Tool
  • Voting Rights
  • Licensed Midwife Badge
  • COVID-19 Info for CA Midwives
  • Resources to keep you up-to-date on the issues that impact you as a licensed midwife

Retired Midwife

$50 /year
$5 /month
  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Qualifies for Birth Center Division Membership
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • Voting Rights
  • COVID-19 Info for CA Midwives
  • Resources to keep you up-to-date on the issues that impact you as a licensed midwife

Student Midwife

$50 /year
$5 /month
  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • COVID-19 Info for CA Midwives
  • Resources to keep you up-to-date on the issues that impact you as a licensed midwife

Midwife Assistant

$50 /year
$5 /month
  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • COVID-19 Info for CA Midwives
  • Resources to keep you up-to-date on the issues that impact you as a licensed midwife

Licensed Midwife

$200

  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Opportunity to Add a Birth Center Listing
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • Listing on the Find A Midwife Tool
  • Voting Rights
  • Access Legal Counsel

Newly Licensed Midwife

$100

  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Opportunity to Add a Birth Center Listing
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • Listing on the Find A Midwife Tool
  • Voting Rights
  • Access Legal Counsel

Associate

$200

  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Opportunity to Add a Birth Center Listing
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
  • Listing on the Find A Midwife Tool
  • Access Legal Counsel

Retired Midwife

$50

  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Opportunity to Add a Birth Center Listing
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics

Student Midwife

$50

  • Ask Us Anything Calls
  • Discounts
  • Ensuring Best Possible Legislation
  • Making Your Voice Heard
  • Opportunity to Add a Birth Center Listing
  • Continuing Education
  • Webinars on Timely Topics
Click below to be redirected to CALM membership platform.

For information on our financial hardship membership application, please email membership@calmidwives.org.