We are honored to have Willow Wish presented to 100+ Women Who Care - Valley of the Sun. Thank you for your kind consideration of our programs.

Willow Wish is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit organization that exists as a Grant Program seeking to make compassionate care accessible to families in Arizona. By raising funds that are then directed to families, Willow Wish is removing the inability to pay as a barrier to high-quality pregnancy and birthing options.

It is our belief that peaceful, evidence-based care should not be a privilege for those who can afford it. The kind of care that focuses on the individual person and honors them as a knowing participant in their pregnancy, labor, and birth journey is the right of all birthing people.

Birthing at a freestanding birth center costs upwards of $5,000. Although the midwifery care at the birth center is generally covered by insurance, the facility fee ($2500 - $3500) remains the responsibility of the birthing family. The cost for trained doula to support the family's birth journey can range from $750 - $2500 depending on the range of services offered by the doula.

Birth Center and Doula Grants:

We are working to make it possible for anyone who is wishing to receive patient-centered care in Arizona to do so. If someone cannot afford to pay the fees for doula care in any birth setting (home, hospital or birth center) or the facility fee at the accredited birth center of their choice, they can apply to the Willow Wish Grant Program to help make their birth dreams come true.

Read more about the benefits of the Midwifery Model and Doula Care HERE (link: https://willowwish.org/2023/01/07/willow-wish-expands-grant-programs-arizona).

Our vision is to increase the access to and the availability of out-of-hospital birth and doulas for all birthing families. Our long-term goal is to be able to award grants to student midwives in nursing programs, birth centers undergoing the accreditation process, and continue awarding families grants so they can access compassionate care through their childbearing year. We will know we are achieving our goal when there are more families receiving doula care, and more midwives practicing in more birth centers providing access to more healthy, low-risk birthers who desire to birth outside the hospital setting.

Our current objective with our grassroots fundraising efforts is to fund 24 Birth Center Grants and 12 Doula Grants per year for birthing families in Arizona that need help underwriting the cost of an out-of-hospital birth experience or doula support for their birth journey. As our fundraising efforts grow beyond the needs of the Birth Center and Doula grants for families, our next step will be to fund midwifery students and doula students. We want to make it possible for them to pursue their educational goals and increase the number of compassionate care providers in the world.

100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun

By Willow Wish

100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun

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