A few words from…Violet Clapham

Violet Clapham works as a full-time midwife in Christchurch, focusing mainly on supporting homebirth. She is also the coordinator of the Midwifery Resource Centre Canterbury and is the recent past chair of the New Zealand College of Midwives Canterbury/West Coast region. Violet represents midwifery on the Canterbury DHB Clinical Board and the Midwifery and Maternity Providers Organisation Board. She is currently working on her masters’ research, and is a mentor for new graduate midwives in the Midwifery First Year of Practice programme