The Multidisciplinary Collaborative Primary Maternity Care Project (MCP²) is designed to address the human resource shortage crisis that exists in the provision of intrapartum care to pregnant women. The overarching goal of MCP² is to reduce key barriers and facilitate the implementation of national multidisciplinary collaborative primary maternity care strategies as a means of increasing the availability and quality of maternity services for all Canadian women.

The strength of MCP² lies in the partnerships that have been established. Associations representing the full range of maternity care providers in Canada have collaboratively developed this initiative. Their mission: to collectively champion changes to the provision of maternity services and to shift the current model toward more collaborative models of primary maternity care.

The partner organizations include: the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Canada (AWHONN Canada), the Canadian Association of Midwives (CAM), the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), and the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC). The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has also joined the Executive Committee to support the issues and interests of nurses and nurse practitioners. The MCP² initiative is funded by the Primary Health Care Transition Fund of Health Canada.