The Solar Road Foundation
We believe that everyone deserves rest, nourishment, warmth, safety, and community during the postpartum period.
Purpose
The goal of the Solar Road Foundation is to help provide access to postpartum wellness care that supports families, allowing them to thrive in the early postpartum time.
During the postpartum period, there are essential elements that are required for a person to fully heal after birth, and for a mother and baby to thrive, grow, and develop.
The Solar Road Foundation believes that everyone deserves these basic human needs which include rest, nourishment, warmth, safety and community during the postpartum period.
Unfortunately, these needs are not supported in our current healthcare model.
As a result of this gap in support, the United States is experiencing an epidemic of postpartum depression and anxiety, which has huge impacts not only on new mothers, but also their children, families, and communities at large. The US also has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high resource country in the world. Most of these deaths occur within the first year after birth.
In response to the lack of support mothers, families, and babies receive from today’s healthcare model, The Solar Road Foundation provides scholarships for families to help them afford in-home and virtual postpartum wellness care, specifically through postpartum doula support, lactation support, nutritional support, postpartum education and postpartum community support groups.
When mothers thrive, we all thrive.
The Solar Road wants to bridge the gap in care that exists for women and families during the postpartum period. We believe that all women should have access to the support and care they need to thrive in the transition to motherhood because when mothers thrive, we all thrive.