How we build a village…

Every program Hatch offers is designed to do two things at once: provide direct support to families, and deepen the web of community that holds everyone in it. These are not services delivered to recipients. They are invitations into a living, growing network of mutual support.

Birth Doula Training & Certification

Our birth doula training program certifies community members as birth doulas — with a curriculum rooted in trauma-informed care, cultural humility, nervous system awareness, and the lived experience of the communities we serve.

Graduates of this program become the doulas for the next generation of young parents — carrying forward a lineage of community-centered birth support that Hatch has been building since our founding.

Birth Doula Training & CertificationTraining is designed for young parents, foster youth, and community members under 25 who want to turn their own experience into advocacy and practice.

Postpartum Doula Training & Certification

The fourth trimester is one of the most vulnerable and under-supported periods in a family’s life. Our postpartum doula training prepares practitioners to provide hands-on support to new families — practical help, emotional presence, nervous system co-regulation, and connection to community resources.

Postpartum doulas trained through Hatch understand what it means to need a village — because most of them have lived it.

Nurturing Touch Doulas & Certification

Touch is one of the most direct pathways to nervous system regulation — for infants, for parents, and for the relationship between them. Our nurturing touch doula program trains practitioners in the evidence-based use of therapeutic touch to support bonding, reduce stress, and build the embodied foundation that families need to thrive.

This program is especially important for families navigating trauma, separation, or systemic disruption — where the body often holds what words cannot yet reach.

Street Doulas → Community Health Workers Certification

Hatch’s street doula program was always about meeting people where they are — in the streets, in the shelters, in the systems — and bringing the village to them. As we rebuild, this program is evolving into a full community health worker model: trained, certified practitioners who serve as a web of support not just around birth, but around every dimension of community health and family well-being.

This expansion reflects what we have always known: the village doesn’t stop at the delivery room. It goes wherever families go.

GEOGRAPHIC REACH

Where We Work

We are currently building program hubs and strategic partnerships across Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and San Francisco County, with plans to expand into surrounding Bay Area communities as the network grows.