Reclaiming Sacred Birth Spaces for BIPOC Mothers & Families.
Cradled in Grace: A Perinatal Advocacy & Support Initiative
This initiative honors the beauty and burden of becoming a mother while confronting systemic injustice with culturally grounded education, community-based advocacy, and wraparound emotional support.
About Perinatal Advocacy Initiative
Who We Are
We are Underground Grace, a trauma-informed, community-rooted initiative based in Massachusetts, committed to walking alongside vulnerable families from crisis to stability. Through culturally responsive care, education, and advocacy, we serve BIPOC families impacted by systemic inequities, generational trauma, and limited access to support.
Our Perinatal Initiative focuses on young, underserved mothers and kinship caregivers—especially Black and Brown women—who are navigating pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery while also facing compounding barriers like poverty, homelessness, addiction, violence, or incarceration.
We believe every mother deserves to be seen, heard, respected, and supported—not dismissed, endangered, or left to survive alone.
What We Offer
We are launching “Cradled in Grace: Reclaiming Sacred Birth Spaces in BIPOC Communities”—a powerful perinatal support and education initiative under the Underground Grace umbrella.
This initiative includes:
- “Dear Mama: A BIPOC Birth Journal” – a one-of-a-kind guided pregnancy and postpartum journal designed for Black and Brown mothers, full of critical vocabulary, emotional wellness check-ins, maternal health facts, prayer prompts, affirmations, and education that empowers.
- Perinatal Advocacy & Navigation – community-based advocates trained through Underground Grace who support expecting mothers from early pregnancy through one year postpartum. Advocates assist with:
- Birth plan preparation
- Medical vocabulary and appointments
- Identifying warning signs often dismissed in BIPOC women
- Accessing mental health, housing, childcare, and transportation services
- Emotional support, journaling, and navigating systems of care
- Birth plan preparation
- Workshops & Support Circles – for pregnant teens, young adults, and kinship caregivers, covering topics like:
- “Know Your Rights in the Delivery Room”
- “From Baby Blues to Postpartum Depression”
- “Navigating Birth Control, Medicaid, and Maternity Leave”
- “Healing After Loss, Trauma, or Birth Disappointment”
- “Know Your Rights in the Delivery Room”
- Hospital & Clinic Partnerships – Underground Grace aims to embed our advocates within birthing centers, OB/GYN offices, and health clinics to ensure that compassionate, culturally aware support is not the exception—but the norm.
Who We Partner With
We welcome Collaborations with:
- Hospitals, OB/GYN practices, and birthing centers
- Faith-based maternal ministries
- Community health clinics
- Youth service providers
- Maternal health advocates and policy leaders
- Statewide and national perinatal equity coalitions
- Local shelters, housing agencies, and child development centers
FOR EXPECTING MOTHERS!
Dear MAMA: A BIPOC BIRTH JOURNAL.
Bloodline & Birthrights
A Guided Yearlong Journal for Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Advocacy
Dear Mama: A BIPOC Birth Journal is more than a planner or pregnancy log—it’s a sacred, guided journey through one of life’s most transformational seasons. Designed specifically for Black, Brown, and Indigenous mothers.
Why It Matters
Because healing starts with being seen.
We meet mothers where they are—in grief, in joy, in transition—and we walk with them. Whether she’s 16 or 36, whether this is her first child or her third, whether she’s alone or in a kinship placement—she deserves to be heard, held, and honored.