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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.

As a US-based independent non-governmental organization, we commit to continuing to work in partnership with colleagues around the world to ensure that local knowledge, supportive relationships, and connection are at the forefront of how care is delivered and experienced. We value the lives of people wherever they live, respecting and celebrating the diversity that exists throughout the world, including differing abilities, sexuality, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, age, language, and economic and immigration status. We strive to strengthen meaningful collaboration based in equity, inclusion, and human dignity.

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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What does it take to make group care work?Across seven countries, GC_1000 explored what helps group care take root in real healthcare settings and what can stand in the way.The project revealed several important lessons:🔎 Understand the context firstBefore implementation begins, teams need to understand the needs of families, providers, facilities, and the wider health system. Cultural expectations, language, staffing, funding, available space, and existing policies can all influence success.🤝 Build support at every levelCommitted facilitators are essential, but they cannot sustain group care alone. Successful implementation also requires supportive leadership, engaged facility staff, community involvement, and, where possible, backing from policymakers.🎓 Invest in people, not only materialsFacilitators need practical, interactive training to transition from delivering information to guiding discussion and shared learning. Continued coaching, reflection, and peer support help teams strengthen their skills over time.🗓️ Prepare the practical systemsGroup care depends on reliable enrollment and scheduling, appropriate space, necessary equipment and materials, clear staff responsibilities, referral pathways, and systems for monitoring progress.🌍 Adapt thoughtfullyGroup care must respond to local realities while protecting its three essential components: clinical assessment, interactive learning, and community building.🔄 Keep learningImplementation is not a one-time event. Teams need to listen, review what is working, address challenges, and adjust as conditions change.Perhaps the strongest lesson from GC_1000 is this: group care succeeds through collaboration.Training can begin the process, but long-term sustainability depends on people, relationships, organizational commitment, resources, and health systems working together.Explore the lessons and implementation resources:groupcare.global/resources/group-care-toolkit/#GC1000 #groupcare #implementation #lessonslearned #MaternalHealth #HealthSystems #First1000Days #HealthEquity ...

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2 days ago

Better care happens when people feel informed, connected, and supported. 💙Research on Group Care has shown positive outcomes across the care experience, including greater satisfaction with care, stronger social support, and increased engagement among participants.By bringing people together for individual health assessment, interactive learning, and community building, Group Care creates space for participants to learn not only from their healthcare providers, but also from one another.Because sometimes, one of the most powerful parts of care is knowing you’re not going through it alone.#GroupCare #GroupCareGlobal #MaternalHealth #CommunitySupport #MaternalCare ...

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1 week ago

Across seven countries and diverse healthcare settings, GC_1000 turned a shared vision for group care into practical action.By the end of the project:🌍 7 countries participated📍 32 healthcare sites implemented group care👥 219 healthcare workers were trained🎓 46 in-country trainers were prepared to strengthen local capacity🤰 210 antenatal groups were conducted👶 19 postnatal groups were conducted🤱 12 groups continued from pregnancy into the postnatal period🗺️ 7 country-specific blueprints were developedThe project also produced a global implementation toolkit, a manual for assessing local context, training resources, and a growing body of research to support the adaptation, implementation, sustainability, and scale-up of group care.But these figures represent more than project milestones.They represent healthcare professionals building new skills, organizations transforming how care is delivered, and pregnant and parenting people experiencing care through participation, shared learning, and supportive relationships.Together, the seven GC_1000 country journeys created practical knowledge that can help other health systems introduce group care in ways that are locally relevant and grounded in its essential principles.Explore the project results:cordis.europa.eu/project/id/848147/results#GC1000 #groupcare #resultsbythenumbers #MaternalHealth #NewbornHealth #First1000Days #HealthEquity #GlobalHealth ...

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2 weeks ago

Seven countries. Seven contexts. One shared vision.Through GC_1000, group care was implemented across Belgium, Ghana, Kosovo, the Netherlands, South Africa, Suriname, and the United Kingdom.These countries represented different cultures, communities, resources, and healthcare systems. They also began from different starting points: Belgium, Suriname, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom had previous experience with group care, while the model was new in Ghana, Kosovo, and South Africa.That diversity was central to the project.GC_1000 was not designed to introduce one rigid program in seven locations. Instead, country teams worked with healthcare providers, stakeholders, and communities to understand what could support or hinder group care in each setting.Teams considered questions such as:• How is antenatal and postnatal care currently organized?• What do women and families need from their care?• What cultural and social factors shape participation?• What resources, spaces, staffing, and referral systems are available?• What changes would help providers deliver group care successfully?Those findings informed local implementation strategies, training, materials, and site-level plans.Adaptation did not mean losing the model’s foundation. Across settings, group care continued to bring together its three essential components: clinical assessment, interactive learning, and community building.What changed was how those components were delivered in ways that made sense locally.The seven-country experience reinforced an essential lesson: meaningful healthcare transformation is not achieved by copying and pasting a model. It requires listening, collaboration, local knowledge, and the flexibility to respond to each community and health system.The result was not one universal pathway, but seven country-specific journeys and a stronger foundation for implementing group care in other settings around the world.Discover the GC_1000 country stories and resources:https://www.groupcare1000.com/#GC1000 #GroupCare #MaternalHealth #HealthEquity #ImplementationScience #ContextMatters #First1000Days #GlobalHealth ...

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