Our Mission

Our mission is to expand access to culturally responsive health care, perinatal programs, family wellness support, and community engagement in order to improve maternal and infant health outcomes in underserved communities.

Our Vision

The Birthing Place Foundation (TBPF) will engage, inform, empower, and care for reproductive and sexual health and wellness. By nurturing community relationships, leveraging mobile wellness hubs (Womb Buses) and incubating free-standing reproductive health clinics and birth centers, TBPF will model how evidence-based strategies for culturally responsive care and community empowerment transform maternal and infant health outcomes.

Our History

Founded in 2020 in response to the maternal healthcare crisis for BIPOC families in New York City, The Birthing Place (TBP) has worked steadily to empower those starting families while providing culturally responsive care through multilingual perinatal classes, our mobile wellness hub (Womb Bus) and brick and mortar clinic (Maryam Reproductive Health & Wellness),  with access to an OB/GYN and midwives as well as mental health care and wellness modalities. In all of our work, we center the whole person within their community. Next, we will establish The Birthing Place itself, a free-standing birthing center in the Bronx.

The Birthing Place Foundation (TBPF) is a 501(c)3 that builds on The Birthing Place’s mission by engaging in community outreach, empowerment, and advocacy.