REMOVING BARRIERS TO
SAFE CARE
BEGINS AT

birth

  • SERVICE PROVIDER

    Are you looking to provide care to your clients through Birthing Families Foundation?

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  • DOULAS

    Are you a birth or post-partum doula looking to work with Birthing Families Foundation to support clients?

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  • PREGNANT PERSON

    Are you looking for support from BFF during pregnancy & postpartum?

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  • DONOR

    Are you looking to support families through a one-time or recurring monthly donation to Birthing Families Foundation?

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OUR MISSION

Birthing Families Foundation is a reproductive justice based charitable organization whose mission is to support vulnerable birthing families with perinatal care in the form of skilled doula services, community supports and food security. BFF provides continuing education to perinatal professionals and is working on large scale systems challenges that impact all birthing families.

BFF Programs serve the birthing community with objectives to reduce health disparities for equity deserving families (low-income, marginalized, racialized, oppressed populations and for those encountering disability, family violence, and/or addiction).

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View fullsize The Birthing Families Foundation was founded to address perinatal health care inequity: Marginalized groups in our communities experience social and economic disadvantage – inequities – due to the unequal distribution of power, wealth and

BFF’s Commitment to

Breaking Systemic Barriers

WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO

Birthing Families Foundation is a reproductive justice based charitable organization whose mission is to support vulnerable birthing families with perinatal care in the form of skilled doula services, integrative community support, and food security. Our goal is to offer families support through doula care, counselling, food and mentorship to fill the gaps that we find in our systems.

OUR SPONSORS

  • https://victoriafoundation.bc.ca/

  • https://ssifoundation.ca/

  • https://raffifoundation.org/

  • https://uwsvi.ca/

  • https://www.cccu.ca/

  • https://communityfoundations.ca/

  • https://canadianwomen.org/

  • https://www.vancouverfoundation.ca/

Are you looking to support equity deserving families?

Birthing Families Foundation is a Registered Canadian Charity that has been actively and successfully providing access to barrier free doula care on Vancouver Island and on the Gulf Islands since 2021.

As of February 2024, Birthing Families Foundation is getting more requests than ever for support, and we urgently need more funding to meet these requests for support.

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