CHICHIHUALTIA
Perinatal & Family Wellness
Addressing Community Health Inequities with Traditional Knowledge Systems, Lineage Legacies, Family Foundations,
and Community-driven Action
Traditional Knowledge Systems
Through the study of Classical Nahuatl and pre and post colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts, we repair religious and cultural worldviews to build on ancestral paradigms for advancing perinatal, pediatric and planetary health.
Lineage Legacies
Through community building and outreach we safeguard ancestral based practices that facilitate relational healing, optimal birth and postpartum health outcomes and family wellness such as birth keeper or doula support, postpartum rites of passages for baby and parent and sustainable Milpa and Indigenous food ways.
Community-Driven Action
To address health disparities and meet the needs of the families we serve, Chichihualtia strengthens dual processes for providing direct perinatal and family health and wellness services alongside ongoing capacity-building and workforce development for the community and clinical care providers who serve them.
Ancestral Lactation Trainings
A Virtual 10hr Live Interactive Human Lactation Lesson Series Rooted in Anahuacan Mesoamerican Culture for BIPOC Perinatal Care Providers
This is a live cohort-based series that includes ongoing skills and capacity building for BIPOC Perinatal Care Providers, Birthworkers, and Support Persons Serving Indigenous, Chicanx, and Latine/Hispanohablante Communities. For more information email info@chichihualtia.org
Why Us
It is the vision of Chichihualtia to co-create a world in which LGBTQ and Indigenous/Chicanx/Latinx parents and families in the City of Los Angeles and beyond have access to culturally and linguistically appropriate perinatal health and family wellness services. ​
Mission
Our mission is to enhance lifelong health and wellbeing among LGBTQIA and Indigenous/Chicanx/Latinx families through perinatal health services, parent education and professional capacity building rooted in traditional knowledge systems, gender justice and community-driven solutions.
Chichihualtia centers birth, lactation and parenting within culture, ceremony and community.
The Lineage-Health Initiative
The Lineage-Health Initiative is an Indigenous people’s health initiative and cultural revival that builds on family lineage legacies such as culture and customs stemming from Mesoamerica and ongoing Indigenous based practices to nurture ancestral values of wellbeing and self-determination for improving personal and intergenerational health outcomes.
The Lineage Health Initiative addresses health disparities among Indigenous and Latine populations through prevention health programs anchored in traditional knowledge systems, lineage legacies, family foundations and community driven action.