Cheryllee Bourgeois
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Community Services
Midwifery Education Program
Toronto, Ontario
cbourgeo@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 557678
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Cheryllee Bourgeois is a Mother of three, Aunty to many and a Metis Midwife at Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto. She graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University Midwifery Education program in 2007 and worked as a registered midwife for 11 years before giving up registration to work under t...
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Bio/Research
Cheryllee Bourgeois is a Mother of three, Aunty to many and a Metis Midwife at Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto. She graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University Midwifery Education program in 2007 and worked as a registered midwife for 11 years before giving up registration to work under the authority of the Indigenous community under the Ontario exemption clause for Aboriginal Midwives. While she grew up on the west coast, her Cree and Assiniboine ancestry is rooted in the Red River District of southern Manitoba and the Missouri River Basin in North Dakota. Cheryllee has taught in the Toronto Metropolitan University Midwifery Education Program since 2008. She sits on the Core-leadership of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives and has been involved in multiple projects supporting Indigenous communities to bring birth closer to home. Her work includes international Indigenous partnerships to support the education, skill development and practice of traditional Indigenous midwifery in Peru and Mexico.
Cheryllee worked as co-lead in the establishment of the midwife-led and Indigenous-governed Toronto Birth Centre, where she continues to serve as President of the Board. Most recently, through her work with NACM, Cheryllee led the collaborative process to develop Indigenous Midwifery Core Competencies, which is a tool that Indigenous midwives, communities and health programs will use to bring midwifery back to the people. She has been involved in several research projects, all with the aim of building community capacity and grounding process and governance in Indigenous community knowledge and ownership. Cheryllee has dedicated her work as a midwife to supporting Indigenous midwifery students, working to both change systems to provide better access to education and create approaches to midwifery education grounded in cultural integrity and Indigenous lived reality - believing wholeheartedly that the practice of self-determination supports the health and wellbeing of our Nations. She is thankful to live and work on the traditional territory of the Anishnawbe, Haudenasonee, Huron-Wendat, and Mississaugas of the New Credit peoples.
International Indigenous Cohort Collaborative
Baby Bundle Project
Our Health Counts Toronto
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Cheryllee worked as co-lead in the establishment of the midwife-led and Indigenous-governed Toronto Birth Centre, where she continues to serve as President of the Board. Most recently, through her work with NACM, Cheryllee led the collaborative process to develop Indigenous Midwifery Core Competencies, which is a tool that Indigenous midwives, communities and health programs will use to bring midwifery back to the people. She has been involved in several research projects, all with the aim of building community capacity and grounding process and governance in Indigenous community knowledge and ownership. Cheryllee has dedicated her work as a midwife to supporting Indigenous midwifery students, working to both change systems to provide better access to education and create approaches to midwifery education grounded in cultural integrity and Indigenous lived reality - believing wholeheartedly that the practice of self-determination supports the health and wellbeing of our Nations. She is thankful to live and work on the traditional territory of the Anishnawbe, Haudenasonee, Huron-Wendat, and Mississaugas of the New Credit peoples.
International Indigenous Cohort Collaborative
Baby Bundle Project
Our Health Counts Toronto
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