Healthcare & Reproductive Justice Resources
Some of the below organizations are partners of our thought partner, Black Mamas Matter Alliance. This list includes organizations providing doula services, breast/chestfeeding support, and other healthcare services catering to Black families and communities. If you’d like to contribute a resource to this list, please email martina@natalstories.com.
National
National Black Doulas Association - Doula directory
NBDA provides a professional doula directory and resources for Black doulas. The NBDA connects Black birthing families with Black doulas nationwide and offers continuous development opportunities for Black doulas to strengthen their doula business infrastructure.
Sista Midwives - Doula & midwife directory
Sista Midwife Productions provides education, training and consultations for communities, birth workers and organizations that work with child-bearing families. Locally, they are a network of leading birth advocacy experts throughout the New Orleans area.
Sisters in Loss - Virtual bereavement doula services
Sisters in Loss provide doula services and support for parents who’ve experienced pregnancy loss. They serve parents across the gender and sexuality spectrum.
Still Birthday - Bereavement doula directory
Still Birthday provides a public listing credentialed Doulas experienced with supporting families through pregnancy loss.
Alabama
Baobab Birth Collective - Birmingham
Baobab Birth Collective provide exceptional evidence based care, relative to each mother’s needs. They employ business, education and medical professionals with over 20 years of professional experience, and understand that each birth experience is unique.
California
Black Women Birthing Justice - Includes Doula locator
Black Women Birthing Justice is a collective of African-American, African, Caribbean and multiracial women who are committed to transforming birthing experiences for Black women and transfolks.
Black Women For Wellness - Los Angeles
Black Women for Wellness advocates for systemic change that acknowledges the impact of racism on health outcomes to ensure that Black mothers and babies are able to thrive. This is also accomplished by increasing accessible, appropriate, and affordable health care.
CinnaMoms provides encouragement and a safe space to to learn about and support breastfeeding. Their support circles are led by amazing facilitators, most of whom are Certified Lactation Educators.
Frontline Doulas - Rancho Cucamonga
An uplifting generation of community doulas on the frontline of birth in the Black community co-creating and reclaiming family-centered narratives for generations to come.
Kindred Space - Los Angeles
Kindred Space LA is a hub for midwifery care, doula support, lactation consulting, education, support groups, enrichment, meditation and movement.
LOOM - Los Angeles
With a focus on sexual and reproductive health, LOOM provides health education to empower everyone.
Roots of Labor Birth Collective - Bay Area
Roots of Labor Birth Collective (RLBC) believes that everyone deserves a doula, regardless of one’s ability to pay. RLBC partners with Santa Rita Jail and Bay Area clinics who serve low-income and communities of color.
Colorado
A Mother’s Choice Midwifery - Colorado Springs
From preconception to postpartum, AMC provides a host of services that support equitable and accessible care for the families they serve.
Delaware
Black Mothers in Power Advocacy
BMIP are a group of Black Women leading a movement and statewide campaign to create regulations and policies to improving Black Maternal and Infant Care in Delaware.
Georgia
Black Girls’ Breastfeeding Club – Includes directory of breastfeeding support groups for Black mothers
Black Girls Breastfeeding Club is an organization that aims to promote breastfeeding among African American women through community, events, and resources.
Center for Black Women’s Wellness – Atlanta
The Center for Black Women’s Wellness provide programs and services which promote the physical, mental, emotional and financial health for Black women and families.
Feminist Women’s Health Center – Atlanta
Feminist Women’s Health Center provides safe, accessible, and compassionate abortion care and gynecological care to all those who need it, without judgement.
National Black Midwives Alliance
NBMA serves Black parents and the birth-work community through advocacy, education and mentorship.
SisterLove, Inc. –Atlanta
SisterLove Inc. is on a mission to eradicate the adverse impact of HIV/AIDS and other reproductive justice health challenges impacting women and their families through education, prevention, support, and human rights advocacy in the United States and around the world.
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective - Atlanta
SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization; our purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities.
Florida
Southern Birth Juice makes care accessible to all peoples- especially Black, Brown, youth, immigrant, indigenous, LGBTQ+, low- income and other marginalized communities. They expand Birth Justice by using story telling, popular education, and community organizing to improve access to midwifery and doula care.
Louisiana
Birthmark Doulas - New Orleans
Birthmark Doulas provides doula services, breastfeeding support, nurse advocacy, placenta encapsulation, and postpartum doulas
National Birth Equity Collaborative
NBEC creates solutions that optimize Black maternal and infant health through training, policy advocacy, research, and community-centered collaboration.
Massachusetts
Our vision is that birth experiences and outcomes improve for all through the integration of a freestanding birthing center in Boston.
Michigan
Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association
BMBFA’s mission is to reduce racial inequities in breastfeeding support for black families. They provide education, valuable resources and ongoing support to black families and public/private agencies that service these families.
Mothering Justice – Advocacy organization
The overall goal of this organization is to empower a well-organized group of mothers that can engage fellow mothers and law makers around a variety of issues that affect working families.
Mosaic Midwifery Collective - Detroit
Missouri
Jamaa Birth Village – Ferguson
Jamaa Birth Village is a 501c3 non-profit Midwifery, Doula & Maternal Health organization located in Ferguson, Missouri and serving the greater St. Louis metro area.
New Jersey
Ancient Song Doula Services - Northern NJ & NYC Area
Ancient Song Doula Services is a international doula certifying organization founded in the Fall of 2008 in Brooklyn, New York with the goal to offer quality Doula Services to Women of Color and Low Income Families who otherwise would not be able to afford Doula Care, and training a workforce of full spectrum doulas to address health inequities within the communities they want to serve.
Inner Circle Midwifery - Southern NJ & Philadelphia Area
Inner Circle is proud to be the first and only community-based midwifery practice in Greater Philadelphia to have its own in-house network of doulas!
Families for Equity – Northern NJ
Families for Equity is an interactive membership based community aimed at lifting the voices of families of color. They provide a platform for the sharing of support and educational resources around issues of conscious and natural parenting practices, and social justice. Members seek and provide support through organized meet ups, play based activities, field trips, and an online forum.
Perinatal Health Equity Foundation – Newark
The Perinatal Health Equity Foundation is a grassroots community organization. They are dedicated to actively working towards eliminating health care disparities in black infant and maternal health through advocacy, education, community engagement, research, collaboration, and direct clinical support.
New York
Ancient Song Doula Services - New York Area
Ancient Song Doula Services is a international doula certifying organization founded in the Fall of 2008 in Brooklyn, New York with the goal to offer quality Doula Services to Women of Color and Low Income Families who otherwise would not be able to afford Doula Care, and training a workforce of full spectrum doulas to address health inequities within the communities they want to serve.
Mama Glow - New York City
Mama Glow is New York’s premiere maternity lifestyle brand committed to supporting women along the childbearing continuum. They support women and families during the fertility period, pregnancy, after birth and into new motherhood offering a full spectrum approach to holistic wellness. They are the first company to offer doula support at every stage along the childbearing continuum - including their premium fertility doula service for hopeful expectants.
Nourishing Seeds Doula - Brooklyn
Full-spectrum doula care that expands on a traditional model and sees pregnancy and birth as part of a full spectrum of reproductive and parenting experiences that include (but are not limited to) fertility, medically assisted conception, pregnancy prevention, miscarriage, stillbirth, and loss, abortion, surrogacy, adoption, and cesarean birth.
Village Birth International/Co-Mothering - Syracuse
VBI Doulas provide physical, emotional, spiritual care and advocacy throughout all stages of reproductive healthcare.
North Carolina
Mine-R-T Doula Company - Charlotte & surrounding areas
Mine-R-T works in a variety of settings including hospitals, birth centers and private homes. They have experience with VBAC, Plus Size Birth, high risk, medicated and unmedicated birth. They also offer childbirth education, postpartum belly binding, and breastfeeding support.
Ohio
Birthing Beautiful Communities - Cleveland/Akron
Birthing Beautiful Communities provide free neighborhood-based services include childbirth and parenting education with workshops and classes on breastfeeding, stress relief, bonding with baby, co-parenting and healthy eating. BBC also offers perinatal support training to provide support for labor, delivery and postpartum health including depression, and family, life and personal goal planning.
Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT) – Columbus
ROOTT is a Black women-led reproductive justice organization dedicated to collectively restoring our well-being through self-determination, collaboration, and resources to meet the needs of women and families within communities.
Oregon
Shafia Monroe Consulting (SMC), provides training, webinars, keynote presentations, motivational speaking, and consulting for health professionals, to reach their goal of professional development, cultural competency, and better birth outcomes.
Pennsylvania
Inner Circle Midwifery - Philadelphia Area
Inner Circle is proud to be the first and only community-based midwifery practice in Greater Philadelphia to have its own in-house network of doulas!
Tennessee
SisterReach – Memphis
SisterReach is a non-profit supporting the reproductive autonomy of women and teens of color, poor and rural women, LGBTQIA+ people and their families through the framework of Reproductive Justice.
Texas
Bundle Born - Frisco
Midwifery services, including home birth, water births, VBAC, and lactation support.
Dallas Birth - Dallas
Dallas Birth is a collective of licensed professional midwives, certified birth doulas, certified childbirth educators, certified lactation counselors, and placenta encapsulators. Their team includes several licensed master social workers, professional counselors, and former nurses.
Root Mama - Duncanville
RootMama is a leading Afrocentric wellness company helping women grow healthy families. We provide maternal care in your Divine reflection. Services span fertility, pregnancy and birth, postpartum, and breastfeeding
Shades of Blue Project – Houston
The Shades of Blue Project is dedicated to breaking cultural barriers in maternal mental health by raising awareness and ensuring action is taken to break the stigma surrounding seeking treatment in the minority community when experiencing complications after childbirth. We do this by helping women before, during and after child-birth with maternal mental health advocacy, treatment and support.
The Afiya Center – Dallas
TAC is unique in that it is the only Reproductive Justice (RJ) organization in North Texas founded and directed by Black women. Their mission is to serve Black women and girls by transforming their relationship with their sexual and reproductive health through addressing the consequences of reproduction oppression.
Virginia
Birth in Color RVA - Richmond
Birth In Color RVA is a birth, policy, and advocacy collective focused on providing culturally-centered support to pregnant families, and the birth community.
Washington DC
Mamatoto Village is a non-profit organization devoted to creating career pathways for Women of Color in the field of public health and human services; and providing accessible perinatal support services designed to empower women with the necessary tools to make the most informed decisions in their maternity care, their parenting, and their lives.
Wisconsin
Harambee Village - Madison & Central WI
Harambee Village is a network of providers focused on supporting pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting for women of color.
Maroon Calabash - Milwaukee
Maroon Calabash is a community of Black Radical Doulas supporting Black folx in decolonizing our reproductive experiences at the intersection of cultural traditions and modern medicine.