Founded in 2004, Birth Roots is Maine’s first non-clinical perinatal 501(c)(3) based in Portland directly serving more than 1,000 families annually. Birth Roots creates a culture of support for parents throughout the critical window of early child development – beginning in pregnancy – with robust programming that emphasizes new parents' social, emotional, and non-clinical needs. Birth Roots believes that families and extended communities flourish by prioritizing parents’ deep need for belonging and perspective in early parenthood. Children and their parents emerge from the early development stages more resilient, confident, and connected. For more information, please visit birthroots.org and follow Birth Roots on Facebook and Instagram.
