Healing Hands Community Birthing Project (HHCBP) is a nonprofit community based birth worker organization based in Austin Texas. Since its inception, HHCBP has been

  • Training birth workers, primarily birth workers of color, to work in and with marginal and under resourced communities in Texas

  • Working with other public health stakeholders to eliminate maternity deserts across the state

  • Working to lower (severe) maternal birth injury and lower maternal deaths that result from pregnancy and delivery complications.

Our Work: “We help people out”

We developed The Healing Hands Community Birthing Project Perinatal Community Health Worker certification.

This certification requires: 

  • 40 hours of birth support 

  • 160 hours of state approved CHW training and certification,

  • Trainees support 10 childbearing families through pregnancy, labor and delivery and though 6 weeks postpartum. 

We train and employ PCHWs!

These highly skilled public health workers educate, support and assist childbearing people and their families to access information, healthcare, and social service resources to make wise and informed health choices for themselves, their babies, their families and their communities. 

Our PCHWs

  • Educate clients and their families about reproductive health

  • Educate clients about their healthcare options and human rights

  • Provide direct, non-medical physical and emotional support through pregnancy, continuously through labor and delivery, and for up to 12-18 months postpartum

  • Provide case management and referral services for the families we serve. 

  • Connect clients with commuity and social services resources (i.e. access Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, housing assistance, etc.)