Doula Advocacy Award - APHA
Rachel Abramson, HC One's Executive Director, has been selected for this year's Outstanding Leadership/Advocacy Award by the APHA's Maternal and Child Health Section, for her leadership in advocacy for the community-based doula model. She accepted this award during the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on Tuesday, November 10, at the Martha May Eliot Luncheon.
The Outstanding Leadership/Advocacy Award recognizes leaders who serve at a local, state or national level and who have made significant contributions to the field by creating the political will to improve the health of mothers and children.
For more information on HC One's advocacy work for the community-based doula model, please link here.
Doulas on the Screen
A Doula Story is a movie about a HC One-trained doula and her work. It is powerfully touching and informative. If you did not catch it on PBS, order a copy from us! Send us an email or give us a call for more info. In the meantime, you can watch a trailer.
Doulas in Atlanta
Community-Based Doulas: A Good Investment in Our Future
Blog by Jane Fonda featured in The Huffington Post - July 7, 2009
G-CAPP's Doula Project was one of HC One's original replication sites, and we congratulate them on this great coverage!
Doulas in Japan
As many of you may have read in our Winter 2008 Newsletter, Executive Director Rachel Abramson went to Japan in December 2007 to spread the community-based doula message in the Far East. She, along with former HC One Intern Rieko Kishi and HC One-trained doula Loretha Weisinger, presented at the Japanese Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Conference. The presentations can be found (in Japanese) here. Enjoy!
Doula Project Award
Our original "Doula Project," funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was highlighted at the 20th anniversary meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Local Funding Partnership Program in Scottsdale, AZ. As part of a panel celebrating successful local, statewide and national projects, Rachel Abramson, HC One's Executive Director, shared the story of the HealthConnect One (formerly Chicago Health Connection) Doula Project, which became the pilot for national replication of the community-based doula model. In 2003, The Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies State Impact Award went to HCO for this work. For more information about the original project, check out the report on the Robert Wood Johnson site.
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A Doula Story (DVD)
A Doula Story is a movie about a HC One-trained doula and her work. It is powerfully touching and informative. If you did not catch it on PBS, order a copy from us! Send us an email or give us a call for more info. In the meantime, you can watch a trailer.
The Community-Based Doula: Reclaiming Birth, Empowering Families (Book)
By HC One Executive Director Rachel Abramson and co-authors Ginger Breedlove and Beth Isaacs, this book is about the impact of doula support and the importance of the community-based doula model to families around the country. Order your copy and find out about the work that supports so many mothers around the world!
