Community Partners

Prison Birth Project

Prison Birth Project (PBP) supports, encourages, and trains currently and formerly incarcerated mothers and trans* parents to become community leaders within a reproductive justice framework. In the jail today, they provide trauma-informed doula care, childbirth classes, family-centered advocacy, a peer support group, and a vehicle for member-led organizing. They also offer a group outside the wall for previously incarcerated women and trans* parents. PBP groups help members to remember core strength, heal as individuals and collectively, and create societal change. Members explore reproductive justice and the history of incarceration, contextualize each of our personal stories within the overall power structure, and learn organizing methods to change the system itself.

Pioneer Valley Workers Center

The Pioneer Valley Workers Center (PVWC) seeks to build power for low-wage, and immigrant workers in Western Massachusetts. Through innovative and creative worker-driven organizing strategies, the Center unites community allies to win real change in the lives of working families and our communities. The PVWC is committed to taking a range of actions to address issues of concern.