Category: Community Updates

19 Dec

AMAR Doula Program Celebrates Its First Graduating Class

Posted December 19, 2019

With the support of the Burke Foundation, in early 2019 the Children’s Home Society of New Jersey (CHSofNJ) launched AMAR, a community-based doula program, to improve prenatal, labor, and postpartum [...]

8 Jul

Insights into AMAR – A Community Based-Doula Program by Maheen K.

Posted July 8, 2019

Early on a Saturday morning, I visited the Children’s Home Society of New Jersey in Trenton to sit-in on the seventh training session of AMAR, a community-based doula program. Having [...]

10 May

CHSofNJ launches new community-based doula program AMAR

Posted May 10, 2019

The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey (CHSofNJ) recently launched AMAR, a community-based doula program in Trenton. AMAR—which means ‘to love’ in Spanish—is the first Spanish-speaking community doula program in [...]

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