We Were Built to Transform Generations.

Hatch Community was founded in Oakland, CA with a mission that was always bigger than any single program: disrupt cycles of poverty, nurture parent-child relationships, and build a real community of support for and by young parents under 25.

The design of Hatch was intentional from the start. Not a service delivery model. Not a provider-client relationship. A village. One built around the nervous systems of families, where the fabric of the organization itself was trauma-informed — where supporting one another’s regulation was as important as any program offered.

We trained birth doulas, postpartum doulas, nurturing touch doulas, and street doulas — all from within the community we served. Young parents became the practitioners. The people who needed a village became the builders of it.

After significant success and years of transformative impact, Hatch closed in 2020.

But here’s what we learned: when you build something right — built from the community, by the community, in service of something true — it doesn’t just end. It graduates.

THE REBIRTH SECTION

The Legacy Kept Moving.

Shayanna Love graduated from Hatch’s 2017 doula training program. Like many Hatch graduates, she didn’t stop when Hatch closed. She kept going — carrying what she had learned into the community, building relationships, staying in touch, and eventually founding Love’s Pathway: a Bay Area nonprofit dedicated to empowering foster and formerly incarcerated adolescents who are expecting or parenting.

Shayanna became the living proof that the work Hatch started was never finished. It was just waiting to be carried forward by the people it grew.

Now Shayanna and Kat Whipple, Hatch’s founding executive director, are partnering to rebirth what Hatch started — with Love’s Pathway as the legacy organization leading the way forward.

VALUES BLOCK

What Has Always Been True.

Holistic by Design

We use ‘holistic’ in the physics sense: all parts included. That means all of a person — every intersection of identity, every lived experience, every part the system has tried to separate out and manage. The village holds all of it.

Trauma-Informed to the Core

The fabric of this organization is built around nervous system support — not just for the families we serve, but for every person who works within it. When the organization is regulated, it can hold the community. When the community is held, generations shift.

Community For and By

The people who most need a village are the ones best equipped to build one. That principle has always been at the heart of Hatch — and it remains at the heart of this rebirth.

Growing Together

This is not a provider-client model. Everyone in this community is a resource for someone else. The doulas who train become the support for the next generation of families. The families become the community that holds the next doulas. We grow together or not at all.