Building Strong Partnerships for Community and Care in the First 1,000 Days
Launching Our Next Chapter
We are delighted to share the Burke Foundation’s new strategy, “Building Strong Partnerships for Community and Care in the First 1,000 Days,” through which we will significantly increase our support for initiatives focused on the time from pregnancy through a child’s second birthday.
The new strategy pairs primary prevention in the earliest years with wraparound services for caregivers with young children — delivered by a community-based workforce — to support healthier families, homes, and neighborhoods by focusing on four vital initiatives aimed at revolutionizing the continuum of care for children and families. The initiatives are:
- Community doulas
- Universal newborn home visiting
- CenteringPregnancy and CenteringParenting
- HealthySteps
Our vision is to create intergenerational impact in economic mobility, health, and well-being by transforming health systems to deliver better care, prevention, and community connections during the First 1,000 Days for babies, mothers, fathers, and families. This includes growing and diversifying New Jersey’s perinatal workforce by building the pipeline for community doulas, public health nurses, and midwives.
The Burke Foundation welcomes your feedback on our new strategy.
You may provide your feedback anonymously, but we encourage you to provide your email address so we can start a conversation!