WHAT WE DO
EducateWe offer courses that provide an overview of what they will encounter during their pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience in the United States.
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Advocate
We pair trained staff and volunteers with a refugee mother to journey alongside her as an advocate, helper, and most importantly, a friend.
Learn about volunteering |
EmpowerWe train local refugee women to serve as childbirth educators, birth and postpartum doulas, and leaders within their ethnic communities.
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Thank you to my volunteer, Jamie. She took care of me when I was pregnant. She slept with me at the hospital for two days when I was having my baby. I'm so happy. God bless her." |
OUR APPROACH
Cultural Sensitivity
Though childbirth is an experience connecting women from every culture in the world, childbirth is not void of culture. Embrace seeks to understand birth cultures and find ways to integrate a refugee's home culture into her birth experience in America.
Learn more about our community
Learn more about our community
EmpowermentBirth has the potential to be an empowering or invalidating time in a woman's life. In its work to help women achieve empowering birth experiences, Embrace provides refugees information about the options and procedures they will encounter so they can make informed decisions for themselves and their child.
Challenges refugee mothers face |
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PartnershipRecognizing that there is a wealth of knowledge, experience and resources in the Atlanta community, Embrace intentionally seeks partnership with refugees, volunteers, refugee resettlement organizations, care providers, doulas, childbirth educators and others across philosophical, ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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I realized recently how much these women are like my children. I feel protective of them and have an immediate bond. – Tracy, volunteer
