Virginia Prison Birth Project
our mission is to nurture Well-Being, Connection and Hope by providing skilled support and compassionate presence for pregnant and postpartum people in prison.
Our vision is to collectively work toward a solution for underlying circumstances that lead to incarceration and promote healing for justice-impacted birthing people and their babies across the Commonwealth.
What We Do
How the Virginia Prison Birth Project Supports Justice-involved families:
Our trained doulas offer emotional, physical, and informational support to pregnant and postpartum people in prison throughout pregnancy and birthing, during separation from baby at the hospital, and postpartum when they return to prison.
We facilitate a program that serves lactating incarcerated parents and their babies by collecting pumped breastmilk and shipping it safely to infant custodians.
Our doulas provide weekly childbearing year education group sessions at the prison. This fosters community among peers, promotes confidence in birthing and parenting, and helps to prepare for positive changes in life after prison.
Support pregnant people in prison and their babies through the Virginia Prison Birth Project.