Group Care Global‘s mission is to promote group health care for pregnant and parenting people, infants, partners, and their families to improve health and well-being.

To support this mission, Group Care Global collaborates with international partners to integrate Centering-Based Group Care into health systems.

What is Group Care?

Want to learn more about Group Care? Here are two videos made through the GC_1000 initiative.

Stories about GroupCare

“Little Pearls, short group care stories with a large impact”. A joint publication of TNO, the KNOV, the Centering Nederland Foundation and Group Care Global. The book was first distributed in the English version at the GC_1000 launch meeting in Leiden, Netherlands, February 2020.

Read the full publication here.

Community Building

A Blueprint for the Newborn Neighbourhood

One of the three core components of Group Care is Community Building, both among participants in the group itself, as well as with the larger community where they live, work, and raise their families. The Blueprint is a community approach that connects (future) parents with neighborhood resources. Because it takes a neighbourhood to raise a child! 

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2 weeks ago

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The Burke Foundation Senior Program Officer Renée Nogales joined CenteringPregnancy creator and founding member of Group Care Global Sharon Schindler Rising, CNM; Boston Medical Center pediatrician, social epidemiologist, founding director of the Vital Village Networks, and Burke trustee Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD; and a dozen other clinicians and thought leaders from the GROWBABY Practice-based Research Network for the inaugural Group Care Leadership Workshop in Boston. Dr. Boynton-Jarrett and Clare Madeline Viglione, MPH RD, facilitated an engaging afternoon of small group discussions, consensus building, and action planning on the future of group well-child care and what’s needed to scale and sustain it throughout our healthcare system for healthier kids and families.#centering #groupcare #healthequity #First1000Days Centering Healthcare Institute ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

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Group Care trainers extraordinaire, Anne Bedaux and Amy Welde Selase, collaborated with health care providers in six hospitals in Kampala, Uganda to support Group Care implementation. They discussed challenges experienced while implementing Group Care and then worked intensively on improving skills to FACILITATE (not teach) groups, a key to success. A moving certification ceremony and dinner served to close the sessions and build community and morale among health worker participants from the six hospitals. Anne and Amy then supported the launch of three groups with Eritrean refugees now living in Uganda. They assisted with recruitment and facilitation so that everyone could continue to learn together. During one of those groups, a participant from Eritrea stated, "I'm here in Kampala for 6 months, and I felt so lonely all the time, it's for the first time I'm together with all these women. I'm so happy"... After the closing they all exchanged phone numbers and said they would go for a coffee together! Find out more by watching this powerful video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPfwq9_kEyc @annebedaux @weldeselase #Groupcare #Eritrea #UgandaGroupCare #RefugeesGroupCare #GroupCare1000 ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

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Jalana Lazar, thanks for your exceptional work to train colleagues in Canada! GCG was delighted to be invited to lead a two day training in centering-based group care facilitation for the midwives at Oak Valley Health in Markham, ONTARIO, CANADA. Lots of great learning, sharing and problem-solving as the prenatal clinic has grand plans to implement group care as a standard. Special thanks to Stephanie Zaheer for spearheading the effort and Abigail Corbin for support. Are you interested in starting, training or expanding group care in your context? Please reach out to us at GCG!#groupcare #midwivescanada #groupcarefacilitation ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

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New publication from the GC_1000 project! Available at doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2024.104166 (in-press, Journal pre-proof). Congratulations to Astrid Van Damme for leading this effort. #GC1000 #groupcare1000 #groupcare #midwifery ... See MoreSee Less

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