Grant Partners

First Teacher Boston will provide perinatal health education to Black and brown families in Dorchester and Roxbury with a series of small-group workshops and a prenatal/postpartum resource toolkit. 

Tufts University’s Center for Black Maternal Health & Reproductive Justice will create a digital toolkit to assist doulas with the MassHealth enrollment process and improve access to doula services for Black and Brown pregnant people. 

Propa City Community Outreach will provide its services focused on perinatal health education and peer support to Boston’s communities of color who are dealing with pregnancy loss. 

Berkshire Nursing Families will implement the next phase of its partnership with Springfield Family Doulas to train and mentor Black doulas and lactation counselors in Berkshire County. 

Perinatal Wellness Support Center of the Cape & Islands will provide its six-week training offered in English, Spanish and Portuguese that covers childbirth education, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, breastfeeding, nutrition and other prenatal and postpartum health issues.