The 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, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Creole and Arabic

If you are pregnant and would like the services of a community doula, please call: Silvia Corado at 609.649.2433 or scorado@chsofnj.org para Español, or Carla Graves at 609.690.0558 or cgraves@chsofnj.org for all other languages. 

AMAR Community Doulas

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.

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AMAR community doulas offer services in Spanish. If you are pregnant and would like the services of an AMAR community doula, please contact Silvia Corado at 609.649.2433 or scorado@chsofnj.org.

Multicultural Community Doulas

Through $631,500 in federal funding championed by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman in August of 2023, CHSofNJ expanded on the AMAR program to offer doula training and services to additional diverse populations including Black/African-American, Muslim/Arabic-speaking and Eastern European women within greater Trenton.

Multicultural community doulas offer services in English, Arabic, Russian, Creole and Polish.

If you are pregnant and interested in obtaining the services of a Multicultural community doula, please contact Carla Graves at 609.690.0558 or cgraves@chsofnj.org.

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Community Doula Request Form

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Doula Information for Medical Professionals

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. 

AMAR was chosen to be a recipient of the 2022 Princeton Area Community Foundation Fund for Women and Girls grant. Check out the video below to see AMAR and other local recipients.

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