NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Square Roots, a mission-driven company focused on defining and empowering healthy birth, introduces the Birth Bonds Initiative to reduce disparities in birth across the U.S. by investing in community health workers.
By collaborating with Ancient Song Doula Services, a non-profit organization providing doula services to low income families and at-risk mothers, Square Roots is supporting holistic methods, trainings, and workshops.
“The dynamics within our communities move faster than our solutions. Birth Bonds invest in two principles. No mother should go through pregnancy alone, and no community member is more valuable to mom than the community health worker,” said Morad Fareed, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Square Roots. “How can we invest in strengthening these bonds now?”
“Too often, families with the greatest need receive the least support,” said Chanel Porchia-Albert CD, CLC, CHHC, Founder of Ancient Song Doula Services and Square Roots Advisory Board Member. “Through strategic investments and public-private partnerships, Square Roots is working to ensure all mothers receive the quality care they need and deserve, and we are proud to be a part of this movement.”
Birth Bonds will also continue to support key non-profit organizations, including Every Mother Counts, a non-profit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. “The funding we receive from organizations like Square Roots allows us to continue to educate the public about the importance of improving access to quality care through programs like Ancient Songs Doula Services. Through our running program, social media initiatives, and our ‘Giving Birth in America’ film series we are raising awareness of this important issue. Square Roots’ Birth Bond Initiative has the power to positively impact the lives of so many mothers and infants by strengthening programs on the ground in vulnerable communities,” said Christy Turlington Burns, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Every Mother Counts.
About Square Roots
Square Roots (www.squareroots.com) is a mission-driven company focused on defining and empowering healthy birth. By integrating new technology and scientific findings with intelligent partnerships from medicine to policy to maternal care takers, Square Roots brings needed solutions and resources to the most critical period of life: our beginning. We identify the highest impact programs and tools that have a proven health impact for mothers and coordinate the distribution of these programs and tools between academia, policy, public agencies, and private companies.
Follow Square Roots on Twitter with @SquareRootsLife and on Facebook and Instagram with @SquareRootsBirth.
About Ancient Song Doula Services
Ancient Song Doula Services (www.ancientsongdoulaservices.com) was founded in the Fall of 2008 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. Over the course of six years we have grown to offer trainings and workshops, midwifery care, well woman services, and advocacy through community engagement and campaigns to address the lack of resources to communities of color.
Ever enduring is our commitment to lower the Infant Mortality & Maternal Morbidity Rate through collective work and offering resources to the families and community that we serve information to make informed decisions about the care they receive. Our approach comes from a Holistic and Traditional foundation intertwining that with modern modalities realizing that in order to move on in the future we must not forget the foundation that has been left for us to continue to build on.
Ancient Song Doula Services mission is to offer all women regardless of their socioeconomic standing quality Doula Care and empower young mothers to make healthy choices in their lives. Ancient Song is committed to the lowering of the Infant Mortality Rate by changing the way mothers view birthing, advocating on behalf of all mothers, and challenging the current healthcare systems quality of care regardless of one’s socioeconomic standing.
Follow Ancient Song Doula Services on Twitter with @AncientSong7, on Facebook with @AncientSongDoulaServices, and Instagram with @ancientsong.
About Every Mother Counts
Every Mother Counts (www.everymothercounts.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. Every Mother Counts informs, engages, and mobilizes new audiences to take action to deliver life-saving care around the world.
Every Mother Counts makes pregnancy and motherhood in safer in Haiti, Uganda, Bangladesh, India, Tanzania, Guatemala, Syria and the United States.
Follow Every Mother Counts on Twitter & Instagram @EveryMomCounts
