Partner Spotlight · Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County
Building a community’s doula workforce in Palm Beach County
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County (HMHB) created Stronger Together to grow a local workforce of doulas who offer culturally aligned physical and emotional support to families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Today, training is delivered by HMHB’s own Doulio-certified trainers, building lasting local capacity for doula care.
75
Doulas graduated
171
Births supported
HMHB Stronger Together program totals, as reported by HMHB on August 31, 2026.
Watch the program story
Stronger Together: Doula Support for Black American Women
HMHB’s 2023 program spotlight video, from the early years of Stronger Together. Published by Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Palm Beach County on YouTube.
Program milestones
How Stronger Together grew
Stronger Together began with a focus on Black American women in selected Palm Beach County neighborhoods with higher rates of poor birth outcomes. As the program grew, HMHB opened participation across the county, including Haitian women.
HMHB sought a doula consultant for the program, and Brittany Fadiora filled that role. Recruitment for the first Stronger Together cohort began later that year.
The first Stronger Together cohort graduated.
HMHB hired Latoya Rawls, a first-cohort graduate, as its on-staff Doula Certification Coordinator to support the growing program.
HMHB celebrated 100 births supported by Stronger Together doulas. This earlier milestone is included in the August 2026 total of 171 births, not added to it.
HMHB reported 75 doulas graduated and 171 births supported since the program began.
Participant voices
In their own words
Growing local trainers
“One of the accomplishments I am most proud of in my work as a doula is becoming a doula trainer. It represents a full-circle moment for me.”
Herlie Bertrand
Stronger Together Cohort 2, now a doula trainer
Supporting families
“What makes me the proudest is supporting my clients and helping them feel seen and heard.”
Chelsea Mojica
Stronger Together Cohort 4
Video testimonial
The Faces of HMHB: Bree
Bree Spence
Stronger Together first-cohort graduate · Video by HMHB
Moments from the program
Training, graduation, and community support
Graduation celebration
Hands-on comfort techniques in training
Classroom training
Supporting a family after birth · Photo: Mary Beliz
The partnership
Led by HMHB, supported by Doulio
HMHB leads the program
HMHB launched Stronger Together and runs it: recruiting and selecting each cohort, matching doulas with HMHB clients, and supporting doulas through certification. The program is led by HMHB’s team, including CEO Michelle Gonzalez, Program Director Angelique Francois, and Doula Certification Coordinator Latoya Rawls.
Early consulting, 2021
When HMHB sought a doula consultant in 2021, Brittany Fadiora filled that role as the program took shape and recruitment for the first cohort began. Brittany is now co-founder and CEO of Doulio.
Doulio’s role today
Doulio provides the doula training curriculum and certification. Since 2025, HMHB has been a Doulio Certified Training Partner, so HMHB’s own Doulio-certified trainers deliver the training locally.
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