The Burke Foundation team penned a blog post for Health Affairs on the importance of community doula care. As the pandemic highlights the need to address inequities in maternal care, we aim […]
Tag: New Jersey
Breaking Ground to Build Futures: Burke Foundation Invests $500,000 in New Childcare Center
Princeton, NJ, May 15, 2020 On Monday, May 11, YWCA Princeton began major renovations to improve its existing facilities and programs. The construction includes a new childcare wing named The […]
Atiya Weiss Contributes to NJ.com Op-Ed on Safer Childbirth Cities Initiative
The Burke Foundation’s Executive Director Atiya Weiss contributed to a new op-ed on NJ.com that shines a spotlight on the maternal mortality crisis affecting the US and addresses specific challenges […]
AMAR Doula Program Celebrates Its First Graduating Class
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 […]
Support from The Burke Foundation Helps New Jersey Expand Medicaid Program to Include Coverage for CenteringPregnancy
The state of New Jersey has taken a significant step to improve maternal health and birth outcomes, in large part due to the Burke Foundation’s support of CenteringPregnancy, an evidence-based […]
New Report by The New Jersey Funders ACEs Collaborative
Over 40% of children in New Jersey—more than 782,000—are estimated to have experienced at least one Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) and 18% are estimated to have experienced multiple. In response […]
Insights into AMAR – A Community Based-Doula Program by Maheen K.
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 […]
Trenton Kids Count 2019 Release
The recent release of Trenton Kids Count 2019 on June 13th marks the first Kids Count initiative in the city in nearly twenty years. The Burke Foundation partnered with the […]
CHSofNJ launches new community-based doula program AMAR
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 […]
Nicholson Foundation and Partners Announce Major Commitment to Address Childhood Adversity
On Tuesday, November 13 in Princeton, NJ, The Nicholson Foundation joined with political, business, and philanthropic leaders from across New Jersey to launch a major new initiative to address Adverse […]