Our Portfolio

Healthy Pregnancies and Strong Beginnings

Transforming Pediatric Care

Child Care for New Jersey Families

Healthy Pregnancies and Strong Beginnings

Finding and supporting innovative, effective, and equitable healthcare solutions that improve maternal and infant health and well-being.

Healthy Pregnancies and Strong Beginnings

Family Connects NJ

A nurse visit for every new baby

Through this groundbreaking program, New Jersey families receive a free visit from a nurse within a few weeks of welcoming a new baby.
Transforming Pediatric Care

HealthySteps

A child development expert in every pediatric team

HealthySteps transforms primary pediatric care by integrating a child development expert into primary pediatric teams for children’s well visits.
Child Care for New Jersey Families

Start Strong NJ

Affordable Child Care for All

Start Strong NJ is a campaign to make child care affordable for New Jersey families – boosting New Jersey’s economy and reducing stress for families.
Healthy Pregnancies and Strong Beginnings

Community Doula Portfolio

A trusted guide for every new parent.

To address the maternal mortality crisis in New Jersey, the Burke Foundation supports community doulas who improve the health of mothers, babies and families.
Healthy Pregnancies and Strong BeginningsTransforming Pediatric Care

Centering

Relationship-based group care to improve health of mothers, babies, and families

CenteringPregnancy and CenteringParenting expand healthcare visits to include parental learning and connection.
Child Care for New Jersey Families

All Our Kin

Enhancing family child care in Trenton

All Our Kin and Children’s Futures are partnering to make child care available to more families in Trenton, NJ, by strengthening family child care businesses.
Healthy Pregnancies and Strong Beginnings

AMAR Community Doulas

Supporting community doulas in Trenton

The AMAR Community Doula program uses an evidence-backed model to advance equitable, community-based, peer-to-peer support for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and early parenting.
Healthy Pregnancies and Strong Beginnings

South Ward Healthy Beginnings

Enhancing career pathways for community doulas in Newark

South Ward Healthy Beginnings provides accessible, quality maternity care in Newark, NJ; creates career pathways in maternal health; and helps families prepare their children for kindergarten.
Transforming Pediatric Care

Reach Out and Read New Jersey

Strengthening parent-child relationships at pediatric visits

Reach Out and Read incorporates the importance of early relational health by distributing books during pediatric care visits and encouraging families to read aloud together.
Healthy Pregnancies and Strong Beginnings

Doula Business Support

Strengthening doulas’ business acumen in New Jersey

Civitas Strategies is strengthening doula business success by providing doula-specific training, resources, business coaching, technical assistance, and evaluation services.
Healthy Pregnancies and Strong Beginnings

Hospital Doula Pilot at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center

Adding doulas to hospital care teams

The doula pilot at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, NJ, is assessing the viability of integrating doulas into the hospital’s maternity care team.
Healthy Pregnancies and Strong Beginnings

PRAMS for Partners

Reaching out to dads with the New Jersey Fatherhood Survey

The New Jersey Fatherhood Survey will focus on the health and behaviors of fathers and non-birthing parents during the perinatal period.
Transforming Pediatric Care

Early Childhood Development for Future Pediatricians

Preparing the next generation of NJ pediatricians to promote early childhood development

Mount Sinai Parenting Center developed an early childhood curriculum for pediatric residents in all nine of New Jersey’s pediatric residency programs.
Transforming Pediatric Care

Mount Sinai Parenting Center Videos

Promoting practical child development resources and videos for parents

The new Parent Video Series developed by Mt. Sinai Parenting Center aims to promote the parenting behaviors that have proven to positively impact child development and well-being.
Past Initiatives

New Jersey Families Study

Deepening understanding of how families raise young learners

The New Jersey Families Study examines home life to help researchers, healthcare providers, and early childhood specialists better understand early parent-child interactions.
Past Initiatives

Resilient Minds on the Front Lines

Helping New Jersey Schools and Law Enforcement Build Strong Partnerships to Address the Impact of Trauma
Past Initiatives

Foundation for Educational Administration

Addressing the Impact of Trauma and Creating Healing-Centered Schools in New Jersey
Past Initiatives

Reinvestment Fund

Identifying the Most Effective Child Care Solutions for Mercer County’s Children
Past Initiatives

MSU – Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

Strengthening Teacher-Student Relationships in Early Childhood Education
Past Initiatives

Safer Childbirth Cities Initiative
Past Initiatives

Advocates for Children of New Jersey Statewide Census Outreach to Count Young Children

Ensuring All Children Are Counted in Census 2020
Past Initiatives

South Ward Children’s Alliance (SWCA)

Transforming Pediatric Care

Advancing groundbreaking models of relationship-based pediatric care that bring families, clinicians, and communities together to improve health outcomes for families in the early years.

Child Care for New Jersey Families

Making high-quality child care available to all New Jersey families through common sense policies and deep partnerships — giving children a strong start, helping parents stay at work, and growing New Jersey’s economy.