The AMAR Community Doula Program
What is a community doula?
A community doula is a person in your community trained to provide emotional, physical and informational support to pregnant women and their families during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.
How will a community doula support you?
- Provide you with ongoing emotional and physical support during labor and delivery of your baby
- Provide you with information about childbirth and breastfeeding
- Connects families to bilingual community resources
- A minimum of four prenatal visits during pregnancy
- A minimum of four consultations during the postpartum period
- Supports and respects their decisions
- Offers services in English and Spanish
If you are pregnant and would like the services of a community doula, please call: Silvia Corado at 609.649.2433 or contact via email: scorado@chsofnj.org
AMAR is a program offered by The Children’s Home Society of NJ with support from the Burke Foundation, which duplicates HealthConnect One’s Community Doula Program. Contact Silvia Corado at scorado@chsofnj.org for more information about HealthConnect One’s 20-week curriculum for Community Doulas.
COMMUNITY DOULAS: COMPLEMENT THE CARE TEAM, SUPPORT BIRTH ATTENDANTS AND IMPROVE THEIR OUTCOMES
Would you like to work as an AMAR doula? Fill out our AMAR Doul Referral Form below.
AMAR- Doula Referral Form
CHSofNJ extends a special Thank You to The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL)! Our AMAR program has received funding from NJDOL’s Cultivating Access, Rights, and Equity (CARE) grant program. We are very excited about this opportunity, and we look forward to educating our clients around the agency about CARE’s program.
First launched in March 2022, the CARE grant promotes outreach, education, and support to expand access to New Jersey’s many generous benefits and protections for eligible workers, including paid family and medical leave benefits, earned sick leave, and related work rights. For the 2023 funding cycle, the CARE grant has expanded its focus to raising employer awareness of these programs and enhancing their capacity to support employees taking leave.