The US Midwifery Education, Regulation, and Association (US MERA) leadership came together April 15-17, 2016, at the Bolger Center in Potomac, Maryland to review the collaboration and chart a new direction for future work together. In 2013, 2014 and 2015, five participants from each of the seven member organizations participated in the annual meeting for the purpose of advancing the work of the collaboration. In 2016 the Steering Committee decided to have a smaller convening of the leadership of the now eight member organizations. View the full report here

The US Midwifery Education, Regulation, and Association (US MERA) workgroup came together April 10-13, 2014, at the Bolger Center in Potomac, MD, to continue discussions on how to advance the vision of expanding access to high quality midwifery care and physiologic birth for all women in all birth settings in the United States. For this, our second, professionally facilitated face-to-face meeting, we came together with intentionality toward collaborative consensus-building to create forward movement. View the full report here 2014 US MERA Meeting Participants

In November 2011, these seven organizations inaugurated strategic conversations that continued through March 2012 when, with the assistance of funding from the Transforming Birth Fund, they agreed to hire a professional firm, Managance Consulting & Coaching. Managance facilitated the process of preparing for and convening a face-to-face summit at the Airlie Conference Center on April 19-21, 2013. View the full report here 2013 US MERA Meeting Participants