Black Birth Justice

02/06/2026

Doula training Alert !!!

Join us for an interactive doula training lead by our Community Midwife. This class is inspired by the diaspora, highlighting the history of black birth work. Our training is unique as it embodies the joy of birth and teaches doulas how to support, nourish and advocate for their families.

Happy Black History Month ❣️

02/02/2026

OFFICE CLOSURE NOTICE

Due to inclement weather,
Healthy Beginnings Connect Us
and
Black Birth Justice

will be CLOSED

Monday, February 2, 2026

Your safety is our priority.
Please stay safe, warm, and well. 🤍

02/01/2026

Join us for Chocolate Fest 2026 🍫

01/21/2026

**📢 Attention, Attention! Calling 15 Families!**

Join us for **Play With Purpose** – a *free* play-to-learn group for families with children ages **birth to 3 years old**!

🗓 **When:** Once a week for 9 weeks
📅 **Start Date:** February 10, 2026
⏰ **Time:** 11:00 a.m.

Families will enjoy:
✨ Fun fellowship
📚 Early learning experiences
🎁 Free books and toys each week
🥤 Light refreshments

This is a great opportunity to connect, learn, and grow together in a nurturing environment. Please share with friends and family who may benefit!

👉 **To register:**
When signing up, please select **“Healthy Beginnings Connect Us”** from the list of locations.
🔗🔗 https://s.alchemer.com/s3/Application-and-Informed-Consent-for-Play-with-Purpose-groups

01/09/2026

🌎🌎🌎 We are still on a high from our baby shower at Redemption Hospital in Liberia, West Africa.

Our BBJ LIBERIA team jumped into over drive to find the perfect location to start our partnership. The administrator was so polite and welcoming of our ideas.

What we learned:

They deliver 300 babies a month
They have 50 beds in the postpartum unit where they put 2 mother's and 2 babies per bed on any given day!
They received a grant that will build a brand new state of the art building that can accommodate their need with really good equipment. However, when we asked what they needed from us, the answer was simple.

Things to keep the hospital clean and sterile.

We can certainly make a way to do that.

For privacy reasons we were not interested in photographing the mother's and babies. But we can assure you everyone was being cared for so beautifully.

These small gifts from BBJ went to the most vulnerable, the NICU babies. Just our luck there were the perfect amount of NICU babies for the gifts we brought.

Videos with the gifts contents will follow.

A special thanks you to our BBJ USA chairman Marquel Lett-Jones for her generous donation. Thank you also to Midwife Victoria for her baby lotion and wash that the mother's loved. 🍼🤱🤰👼

12/04/2025

We’re Headed to Africa — Support Our First Baby Shower at JFK Hospital!

This December, our team will be traveling to Monrovia, Liberia, where we will host our very first community baby shower at JFK Hospital. We are honored to serve 50 new mothers with essential postpartum and newborn supplies that support safe and nurturing new beginnings.

We are asking for donations to help us purchase critical items such as diapers, wipes, postpartum care kits, baby clothing, hygiene essentials, and more. Every contribution—big or small—directly impacts a family in need and helps ensure these mothers feel supported, celebrated, and cared for.

If you would like to donate or partner with us in this effort, please reach out. Your generosity will go a long way in uplifting families and strengthening maternal health in Liberia.

Thank you for standing with us on this journey of love, care, and global community support. 🌍💛👶🏽

11/11/2025

Thank you 🤍🤍

11/09/2025

Another successful Doulo and Doula training 💕💕

10/22/2025

Thank you to our amazing vendors, community partners, and all the beautiful families who joined us for our HBCU Community Baby Shower! 💛

Your love and support made this day unforgettable.

10/12/2025

Bleeding. Feeding. Feelings.

Our doulas practiced it all — showing up with heart, hands, and cultural care.

We’re building birth workers who see the whole person, not just the moment of birth.

We explored postpartum support — the tender, sacred space after birth — and practiced responding to everything from heavy bleeding and breastfeeding frustration to postpartum depression.

Our doulas showed compassion, wisdom, and confidence in every scenario.

This work is more than a skill… it’s heart work.

10/07/2025

Our partner is doing amazing things

We are so excited to announce that in partnership with Passport by Molina Healthcare, we have been given the opportunity to launch our Doulas into the world of birthwork via a national platform. Mae Health has welcomed us with open arms to pilot a program here in Louisville, where our Doula's will be reimbursed through them. They will provide us with support while we navigate serving the famiies we know and love. This is a pilot program so there are certain parameters that we have to follow, but we are ready to hit the ground running!! Also the history of Mae that details the founder, and where the name came from is a VIBE!!! We're so happy to watch this partnership come to life.

10/07/2025

A message from our founder:

I am deeply thankful to the Community Foundation of Louisville for granting me the opportunity to cross oceans, both literally and metaphorically.

In London, I found myself in a room filled with brilliance. Women researchers from every corner of the globe, each carrying stories, data, and dreams that could change the world. To sit among them was humbling. To listen was empowering. I didn’t just attend, I absorbed. Every word, every statistic, every shared experience became a seed planted in my spirit.

One study that stayed with me was “Unwanted Consensual S*x: The Implications for Women” by Dr. Beatrice Hughes of Ireland. Her work was haunting and necessary , illuminating the complex layers of consent, power, and emotional safety that so many women silently navigate. It reminded me that research is not just about discovery, it’s about truth-telling. It’s about naming the things society often avoids, and holding space for healing through knowledge.

As I return home, I do so renewed, carrying these insights back to my own community. This journey was more than professional development; it was personal transformation.

I’m endlessly grateful to the Community Foundation of Louisville for believing in women’s leadership and for making global learning like this possible. Because when women gather across borders, disciplines, and oceans, change becomes inevitable. ✨