When Birth Roots moved out of The Ballard House in 2008, the organization began to appeal to a much broader audience. The Birth Roots Perinatal Resource Guide – a free, hard copy booklet distributed throughout southern Maine connected like-minded businesses and created a web of support beyond the Birth Roots groups. The Guide is still published annually with a distribution of about 3,000 (and growing) copies every single year!
Today, Birth Roots is a 501c3 providing community-based education and support focused on pregnancy through the early years of parenting with classes and events that emphasize connection, instinct, intuition, and a cultural context that addresses the social, emotional, and non-clinical needs of new parents.
Birth Roots is dedicated to representing Maine’s diverse communities and needs, knowing that there is not one type of family, situation, or experience. Birth Roots strives to be an organization that is comfortable with change, evolution, and feedback – as the community changes and grows, Birth Roots readily adapts. No parent, no matter their needs, or background, should ever feel isolated in their journey to build and grow a family.
For more than 20 years, Birth Roots has responded to the ever-changing needs of families. Today, Birth Roots stays focused on the lived experiences of their participants with a facilitation style known as their Facilitating Community and the Community Supported Parenting Approach.
Birth Roots is known by every Birthing Center, gynecology office, midwife, doula, mental health professional, young family and more in southern Maine, and their goal is to be valued statewide to effect change not only at the local level but continue to have influence culturally.