Resources The Doula Project is lucky to have a strong network of partners and allies. Our partners are the incredibly generous and radical organizations, hospitals and clinics where we offer our doula support in NYC. Our allies are the organizations and individuals we love and admire for their vision and the work they do to achieve reproductive justice for all people.
Partners:
Public Hospital Reproductive Choices Clinic
www.nyc.gov/hhc
The Reproductive Choices Clinic offers its services to people who have miscarried and those who seek an abortion or a medical induction. They accept Medicaid and are the largest referral clinic in the area.
Spence-Chapin Children and Family Services
www.spence-chapin.org
Spence-Chapin's mission is to find adoptive homes for children in need here and in countries around the world. They are a pro-choice organization.
Columbia University Narrative Medicine Program
www.narrativemedicine.org
Narrative Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness.
Planned Parenthood Brooklyn
www.plannedparenthood.org/health-center/centerDetails.asp?f=2522
Planned Parenthood's mission is to provide sexual and reproductive health services and education to women, men, and teens, regardless of age, income, or immigration status.
Planned Parenthood Bronx
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-center/centerDetails.asp?f=2524
Planned Parenthood's mission is to provide sexual and reproductive health services and education to women, men, and teens, regardless of age, income, or immigration status.
Allies:
Basic Health International
www.basichealthelsalvador.org
Basic Health International's mission is to eradicate cervical cancer and improve women's basic health in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Miriam Cremer, the Executive Director of BHI, is the former Director of Bellevue's Reproductive Choices Clinic and played a major role in launching The Doula Project's abortion services.
Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP)
www.protectchoice.org
PEP is a national reproductive justice organization that works to engage and inform organizations, young women, transgender and gender non-conforming young people, ages 16-25, especially those whose voices are not heard in spaces where sexual and reproductive health and rights are addressed. They do this through action research, leadership development, movement building, raising unheard voices, and changing the conversation.
Inwood House
www.inwoodhouse.com
A leader and innovator in teen pregnancy prevention, youth development, and family support, Inwood House is dedicated to helping teens take charge of their lives and become healthy and self-reliant adults.
National Advocates for Pregnant Women
www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org
National Advocates for Pregnant Women seeks to protect the rights and human dignity of all women, particularly pregnant and parenting women and those who are most vulnerable including low income women, women of color and drug-using women.
Exhale
www.4exhale.org
Exhale creates a social climate where each person's unique experience with abortion is supported, respected and free from stigma. Exhale provides services, training, and education to empower individuals, families, and communities to achieve post-abortion health and well-being.
Backline
www.yourbackline.org
Backline is dedicated to addressing the broad range of experiences and emotions surrounding pregnancy, parenting, adoption, and abortion. Their vision is of a society in which pregnancy options are discussed with openness, honesty, and the deepest respect for reprodutive justice.
Feministing
www.feministing.com
A go-to website for anything related to women and reproductive justice. Not only does Feministing offer their own perspectives on the issues, they link to other must-read blogs and articles.
Radical Doula
www.radicaldoula.com
A website by blogger, writer, activist, and doula, Miriam Zoila Perez. Miriam is a founding member of The Doula Project. This blog offers a radical perspective on birth, doula-ing, and reproductive justice.
Translate Gender
www.translategender.org
Translate Gender is a collective-based consensus-run nonprofit organization that works to generate community accountability for individuals to self-determine their own genders and gender expressions.
Law Students for Reproductive Justice
www.lsrj.org
Law Students for Reproductive Justice is a national nonprofit network of law students and lawyers. They educate, organize and support law students to ensure that a new generation of advocates will be prepared to protect and expand reproductive rights as basic civil and human rights.LSRJ is currently helping The Doula Project apply for 501c3 status.
Katrina Cass
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Katrina Cass is a web-designer who helps non-profits and individuals create communications strategies and build online communities to better support their work. A long-time activist, Katrina offers specialized support to organizations with radical ideas for change, from the art community to the reproductive health movement. Katrina produced The Doula Project website.