Jessica Johnson (she/they)
CPM, LDM
Jessica Johnson is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) through NARM and a Licensed Direct Entry Midwife (LDM) in the state of Oregon. She graduated from the MEAC-accredited Birthingway College of Midwifery in 2022. Jessica has been attending births since 2017, in community settings (freestanding birth center and homebirths) as providing in-hospital support as needed. After completing her training, Jessica continued to work for various birth centers and homebirth midwifery practices alike, further honing her skills and experience.
Jessica has four children, aged 15, 4, 2, and under 1. Jessica began her journey into midwifery care and birthwork in 2009, with the birth of her first child. Yup’ik beliefs tell that becoming a healer within the community is a calling, and that it can be answered by the individual as they see fit. In her free time, Jessica enjoys exploring the wonders of the Pacific Northwest, foraging, gardening, sewing, reading, gaming, and engaging in various nerdy activities. She is Yup’ik Alaska Native and a tribal member of the Village of Solomon, and is passionate about Indigenous issues. Jessica’s blend of professional expertise, personal experience, and cultural background brings a unique and holistic perspective to her midwifery practice, ensuring personalized and empathetic care for every family she supports. |
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About Sacred Salmon Community Midwifery
Sacred Salmon was established in 2024. Nestled in the heart of the traditional homelands of the Yamhill Kalapuya people, in McMinnville Oregon and serving the surrounding areas, including Newberg, Amity, Lafayette, Dundee, Carlton, Yamhill, Dayton, Sheridan, Willamina, and Washington, Marion, Polk, Lincoln, and Tillamook counties.
Sacred Salmon is an Indigenous owned business and emphasizes traditional Indigenous values, which are well suited within midwifery care.
Sacred Salmon is an Indigenous owned business and emphasizes traditional Indigenous values, which are well suited within midwifery care.
- Sovereignty/Autonomy - Supporting autonomy in ourselves, in our families. making the choices that are right for ourselves.
- Community - We are not singular. We thrive in the support of our community. In birth, not just a baby is born, but a parent, a family. Other family members are welcome and encouraged to attend and participate in care. A place for all members of the family, children included.
- Reciprocity/Sharing - sharing of space, resources, knowledge, of stories. Giving makes you richer.
- Sustainability - practicing in a way that is sustainable for our planet as well as in a way that is sustainable for the midwife to continue to serve the community
- Respect - Show respect to others, ourselves, to nature. Each being has a special gift.
- Identity - Know who you are. Connection to identity to help heal generational trauma, support self worth, and belonging. Encourage cultural practices.
- Connection - to ourselves, our family, our community, and to our identity.
- Knowledge -
- Responsibility - We are responsible to each other and ourselves. We express ourselves through our actions and take accountability of the actions we take.
- Humor - Connects us to ourselves and our peers. Humor is healing.
- Cooperation, collectivism, harmony - within ourselves, our community, and with nature.
- Tradition
- Harmony - Being present in the moment, in harmony with seasons in nature and within ourselves. patience, and the flow of the natural course. Our focus is on the present.
- Acceptance of what life brings - You cannot control things
- Patience
- Live carefully
- Care of others
- Honor elders
- Pray for guidance
- See connections - all things are related
- Healing
- Autonomy
- Responsibility
- Compassion
- Respect
- Cultural Safety
- Nursing
- Bonding
- Education
- Clinical Excellence
Supporting culturally matched care
Midwifery providers and midwifery client numbers (race and ethnicity)
If you would like to help support Indigenous midwives, student midwives, and birth workers, consider donating to organizations that help increase access to Indigenous practitioners, such as: Oregon Midwifery Foundation oregonmidwiferyfoundation.org/donate/ Center for Indigenous Midwifery (in WA), etc. |