Local, State and National Resources
National Association of Certified Professional Midwives
NACPM provides the opportunity to maximize the potential of the CPM credential and the midwives who hold it by radically expanding the availability of midwives to women and their families.The NACPM will promote and support CPMs and their work. It will strive to ensure that midwifery as practiced by CPMs will take its rightful place in the delivery of maternity care to women and families in the United States.
Maine Association of Certified Professional Midwives (MACPM)
MACPM is the Maine state chapter of the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives. Our activities focus on promoting public awareness of midwifery as a safe and valid choice for maternity care and continually improving quality of care through continuing education, peer review, and collaboration. Our advocacy efforts support strong, safe, and independent midwife practice.
North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)
North American Registry of Midwives oversees a competency-based certification process for midwives, granting the title of Certified Professional Midwife (CPM)
New Hampshire Midwives Association (NHMA)
The New Hampshire Midwives’ Association (NHMA) promotes and protects the rights of birthing parents in the state of NH to experience skilled, evidence-based, family-centered midwifery care in their homes or in the state’s many free standing birthing centers.
Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC)
The Midwifery Education Accreditation creates standards and criteria for the education of midwives incorporating the nationally recognized core competencies and guiding principles set by the Midwives Alliance of North America and the requirements for national certification of the North American Registry of Midwives. MEAC is a non-profit organization approved by the U.S. Secretary of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency.
Certified Nurse Midwives in Maine
Maine's most comprehensive resource center for parents and parents-to-be.