The Birth Circle Mission Statement
Our Mission Statement:
Our mission is to educate, support and empower women and their families as they journey through pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, and early childhood. By making families aware of the resources available to them, we are hoping to build community – which may be just as important as anything else we do.
Goals:
In 2006 we received a grant from the Athens Foundation to purchase educational items – books, DVDs, and more – for our Lending Library. As part of our continuing effort to be an educational resource for the Athens community, we hope to further expand the Library as time goes on, with newly released and up-to-date materials.More distant goals include purchasing or leasing building space so that we could become a resource center for expectant and new families in our community. This space could be used to schedule and hold meetings, host play groups and teach classes such as prenatal childbirth education, prenatal yoga, sibling classes, refresher classes, etc.
Our ultimate long-term goal is to have an out-of-hospital birth center here in our own community.