Grant Partners

The mission of Worcester Addresses Childhood Trauma is to provide usable, accurate, and relevant community mental health education and support. 

Using findings from the Community Health Needs Assessment and City Wide Black and Brown Maternal Health Plan, they will deliver culturally responsive perinatal health education.

Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) supports children and families with direct services and state-level advocacy to ensure that there is a voice for children in the legislature. 

MSPCC will host the Mind the Gap Coalition -- a statewide group of health care and community-based organizations, other nonprofits, mental health and maternity care providers, survivors of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs), and other advocates working to improve state policies impacting perinatal mental health (PMH) within MSPCC. The two will work together to expand MSPCC’s advocacy and policy work to support prenatal to postnatal well-being. 

The mission of Berkshire Nursing Families (BNF) is to enhance the health of families through the support of breastfeeding and all feeding journeys, infant nutrition, and positive parenting. 

BNF will deliver workshops and perinatal education, integrate perinatal mental health supports into their services; and train staff to serve as Certified Lactation Counselors, with a focus on communities of color

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.