The Doula Alliance of Arkansas has been awarded $860,500 through Arkansas’s Rural Health Transformation Program for Access Starts at Home: Rural Maternal Care Coordination and Doula Support.
The program will place 10 certified doulas in partner clinics across Northwest, North Central, Upper Delta, Lower Delta, and Southwest Arkansas, helping connect families, doulas, and clinical care teams throughout pregnancy and through six months postpartum. The program will also work in partnership with MySwaddle to help strengthen that connection and continuity of support.
For families living in rural communities, access matters. Distance, transportation, limited local resources, and fewer maternity-care options can all create additional barriers during pregnancy and postpartum. Bringing community-based doula support closer to families is one more way to help bridge those gaps.
Doulas from Bright Blessings Birth Services will be represented at this year’s annual Doula Alliance of Arkansas Conference in Pine Bluff, and we’re looking forward to hearing much more about Access Starts at Home, how the program will be implemented in Arkansas communities, and the role MySwaddle will play in supporting families and care coordination.
Congratulations to the Doula Alliance of Arkansas, and especially to the rural Arkansas families who will ultimately benefit from this investment in maternal health.
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