Pregnancy Support and Healthcare
Our community partners provide free or low-cost healthcare and support for pregnant folks and new parents, with a focus on culturally informed care.
Sign Up
Contact one of our Doorways to Health partners to sign up:
Abide Women’s Health Services: Offers holistic, culturally informed pregnancy care for pregnant people and their families. Services include low-cost prenatal care, postpartum care, doula support and childbirth education
After Birth: Offers comprehensive birthing classes, expert birth support and compassionate postpartum care
The Breast Choice: Expert lactation consultations, prenatal classes, and in-home support for new and expecting parents in Southern Dallas, Tarrant and Ellis Counties
ChildCareGroup: Offers home visiting, early childhood education, childcare and other resources
Daddy Social Stroller Club: Brings awareness to postpartum depression in dads through community building, education, and wellness services
Delighted to Doula: Provides free and low-cost holistic support of mothers in the greater Dallas area. Services include health education workshops, in-home visits, emotional support and personalized assistance
Litehouse Wellness: Bridges the wellness accessibility gap for Black men, thereby transforming families and communities, using contemplative practices, preventative health education, plant-based nutrition and birth work
Rooted Health and Holistic Healing: A clinic committed to holistic healing, with a focus on investigating, addressing and maintaining health through natural techniques
Mothers Magical Milk: Provides expert clinical lactation education and clinical lactation services to parents and healthcare professionals, with a focus on empowering individuals, especially those of color, to achieve their breastfeeding goals
Metrocare Services: Serves Dallas with behavioral health care, primary care, services for veterans and their families, supportive social services, and more
Hope Cottage CeCe’s Place: Provides adoption, foster care, education and parenting support, with a goal of transforming lives with the love of family
What’s available?
- Culturally informed care
- Holistic pregnancy care
- Health and childbirth education
- Pre- and postnatal care
- Doula support
- In-home visits
- Personalized assistance for new parents
About the Program
Doorways to Health is a community partnership that seeks to improve the maternal health outcomes in Dallas. Through our program partners, Doorways to Health offers a variety of resources and programming, including home visiting and holistic maternal healthcare services, to ensure new and expecting mothers have the support necessary to thrive.
For more information, please contact Nailah Johnson, Senior Director, Texas Home Visiting Program and Maternal Health Initiatives at United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.
Doorways to Health is a partnership of:
Kimberly-Clark Corporation • Medical City Health Care Foundation • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas • Community Foundation of Texas • United Way Worldwide