Grant Partners

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. 

Mass Law Reform Institute and the Massachusetts Doula Coalition will work together to deepen its capacity for ongoing policy and advocacy efforts as the statewide doula provider community navigates the new MassHealth coverage benefit and plan for the future structure and role of the Doula Coalition.  

Sacred Birthing Village - Southcoast will expand its multilingual perinatal education program in Greater New Bedford, provided by community volunteers, to individuals through their pregnancy and one year following birth.  

Neighborhood Birth Center will expand its policy capacity by having staff represent the broader birth center and provider community, including doulas, midwives, and nurse midwives. 

Birth Equity & Justice Massachusetts (BEJMA) will continue to bring the birth equity community together and be a voice on perinatal policy and advocacy, including efforts to support recent migrants in Massachusetts. 

GLFHC is a leader in community and primary medicine in the Greater Lawrence and Merrimack Valley. The GLFHC will plan, develop and produce printed and digital materials in multiple languages to address the need for more community education resources about the increased risk of perinatal complications and benefits of breastfeeding – specifically focused on meeting the needs of the largely Latinx and Haitian client base.  

Family Health Center of Worcester will continue its “OB Advocate” program that provides an advocate, who is trained as a doula, to a patient from pregnancy to two years following birth. 

Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts will support newly arrived Haitian migrant families with babies and young children living in emergency shelters in Boston, connecting them to vital resources such as well-child visits, diapers, playgroups, and developmental screenings. 

The Maternal-Child Health Task Force of the Greater Lowell Health Alliance will launch the “Community Doula Academy” to meet the need for more multilingual, culturally competent perinatal care in the Greater Lowell community. The Community Doula Academy, under leadership from the Task Force, and in partnership with both Lowell General Hospital and Lowell Community Health Center, will train and certify at least 12 multilingual doulas in the Lowell area.

Massachusetts PPD Fund will be able to expand its perinatal mental health training series and raise awareness about perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, a pregnancy complication affecting 1 in 5 new mothers. 

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.