Creating a Community-Owned Doula Care Platform
HealthConnect One and Widespread Care
January 2022-July 2022
During this New Jersey-centered project, Widespread Care and HealthConnect One worked with doulas to co-design a platform for doulas to support each other and the families they work with in communities of care.
Partners gained an understanding of the doula workflow, analyzed strengths and gaps of currently available platforms and tools, facilitated community-based design thinking and prototyping sessions, and co-designed solutions with doulas.
About the Partners
HealthConnect One (HCOne) is the national leader in advancing equitable community-based, peer-to-peer support for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and early parenting. HCOne has a history of collaborating with communities to support under-resourced Black, Brown and Indigenous communities and birthing families to achieve positive health outcomes and has a vision to see every baby, mother, and family thrive in a healthy community through an equity focused approach supporting the first 1000 days for birthing families.
Widespread Care builds community-owned technology and helps autonomous organizations form, run democratically, and collaborate with one another. The work is informed by a decade of working with community health workers, practices of relational organizing, and histories of collective action in the face of oppression. Widespread Care’s founder formerly co-founded and served as CEO of Medic, a nonprofit technology company supporting 40,000 community health workers globally.