Empowering Moms. Nurturing Children.
The Nurture® Program is dedicated to supporting and empowering mothers of young children through our innovative mentorship program. Our trained mentors, all mothers themselves, provide compassionate guidance and understanding to help navigate the challenges of motherhood.
Recognizing the demands on mothers’ time, our mentorship is delivered virtually via text message. This flexible approach allows for convenient and accessible support, ensuring that mothers can engage with their mentors at their own pace, whenever it suits them.
Our program emphasizes the importance of maternal mental health and its direct impact on the social-emotional development of children. We also incorporate age-appropriate early infant literacy and other brain building strategies, empowering moms to cultivate a love for reading and learning from the very beginning.
Together, we are building a community where moms feel supported, informed, and connected, fostering resilience and nurturing the next generation.
Our program is always free and confidential. We support families of all backgrounds, socio-economic statuses, and lived experience. There are no income guidelines or requirements to enroll.
At the Nurture® Program, we embrace our responsibility to create a culture that is welcoming to everyone. We believe that inclusion and diversity are imperative for many reasons, but most importantly for the moms in our program and those who mentor them. The vast majority of our enrolled moms state that they have a positive, trusting relationship with their mentor. Along with supporting moms, the Nurture® Program focuses heavily on building trust and reciprocity in the relationships between moms and mentors. Also, when we enroll parents in the Nurture® Program, all moms are welcome…there are no screening criteria.
The Nurture® Program does screen parents for signs of possible postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD) which affect an estimated 15% of parents. It is critical that we continue to educate and bring awareness to the subject of postpartum depression and the daily struggles of motherhood, specifically the increased risk those in underserved communities face. Addressing the factors involved will lead to better health outcomes for both mothers and their children.
The Nurture® Program stands firm against racism and inequality. Discrimination in any form is not tolerated within The Nurture® Program.
At the Nurture® Program, we know that children thrive when they experience a stable relationship with at least one consistent, responsive, and trusted caregiver. Oftentimes, that primary caregiver is the child’s mother, so our focus has always been on enhancing the relationship between moms and their babies, and we commonly describe our work in that context. However, we also understand that these parenting roles are not exclusive to female-identifying parents and we welcome and celebrate all gender identities and family dynamics in the program. We are happy and eager to support all parents who identify as the primary caregiver and as a source of trusted, consistent nurturing of a child.