Birthworkers of Color Collective
Birthworkers of Color Collective (BWOCC) is a community-based doula organization. BWOCC is a training, services, education, healing, and advocacy based birthworker organization that focuses on and supports pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people of Color, their families, and communities.
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LIVE ·2024 Grants ChallengeDoula Access for All
This grant will support marginalized communities by diversifying and expanding the doula workforce to ensure barrier-free access for pregnant and birthing people of color in Los Angeles. The program will address systemic barriers and offer sustainable solutions, increasing the number of doulas covered under the Medi-Cal doula benefit and improving maternal and infant health outcomes for BIPOC individuals, thereby reducing the reproductive crisis impacting communities of color.
- LIVE ·2023 Grants Challenge·🎉 Runner Up
Accessible doula care for Los Angeles
This grant will support providing doula trainings to Black Indigenous, People of Color to increase the number of visibility and diverse support available to pregnant, birthing, & postpartum people, their families, and communities. And increase the number of doulas able to provide culturally relevant, skilled, and community centered support to Medi-Cal recipients. All with the goal of improving reproductive health & birth outcomes of people of Color, especially decreasing the overwhelming Black maternal and infant health disparities in LA.