BACE Mission & Vision

Mission: To make pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and parenting more informed and satisfying family experiences by providing ongoing education, emotional support, community services, and advocacy.

Vision: To see childbirth and breastfeeding become universally recognized as natural, normal, and healthy. To empower women and their families with the knowledge, skills, and support they need to make informed choices about their childbearing years.

Core Values:Childbirth and breastfeeding are natural, normal, and healthy human experiences. Women deserve to be encouraged and supported to trust their innate abilities.Comprehensive childbirth education includes disseminating evidence-based information about pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and parent-infant bonding. Women and their families have the right to culturally appropriate, comprehensive childbirth education in their primary language at a price they can afford. This quality of education and support for parents can equalize disparities in health outcomes. A community setting is a sensible and appropriate place to offer childbirth education because it is familiar, safe, and convenient. Comprehensive childbirth education classes should be fairly valued and recognized as a reimbursable service.As peer educators, maternal and child community health workers should be recognized as an essential workforce and duly compensated.