Chicago Volunteer Doulas
Doulas are professional birth workers who provide crucial physical, emotional and informational support to families before, during and after birth. Chicago Volunteer Doulas provided nearly a thousand hours of labor, breastfeeding and postpartum assistance in 2018. The organization focuses services on communities in the city that are most in need, and on families that make less than $50,000 per year. In line with that goal, the group has started a peer doula and workforce development doula program at Logan Correctional Facility. (Kerry Cardoza)
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Best of Chicago 2019
