About Us

BEE is a collective of families, birthworkers, early educators, artists, healers, organizers, cultural practitioners, community partners, and neighbors working together to build communities where children and families can thrive.

Founded in 2018, our work brings together birth justice, early childhood justice, healing justice, and community organizing. We believe care is something we build together—through relationships, shared knowledge, cultural traditions, advocacy, mutual support, and spaces where people experience dignity and belonging.

Parents and caregivers, children and young people, doulas and birthworkers, educators, artists, elders, healers, organizers, and community partners all help shape and carry this work.

Some have been with BEE for years; others enter through a program, gathering, coalition, or moment of community care and become part of the larger BEE community.

What connects us is a shared belief that the people most impacted by the systems we seek to change should also have a meaningful role in imagining and building what comes next.

​Our Mission

BEE works alongside families and communities to advance birth justice, early childhood justice, healing justice, and community power. Through direct care, culturally rooted learning, healing practices, workforce development, organizing, and coalition building, we create conditions where children, families, and care workers can experience dignity, belonging, well-being, and the power to shape the systems affecting their lives.

Our Vision

We envision beloved communities where children and families are surrounded by care, culture, connection, and opportunity; where birth and care workers are valued and sustained; and where the people most affected by inequitable systems have the power to imagine and build what comes next.

How We Help

BEE works alongside families, care workers, and communities—from pregnancy and the early years to healing, organizing, and systems change. There are many ways to enter our community and stay connected.

Parenting Families

Parenting Families

Pregnancy, postpartum and early childhood shouldn't have to be navigated alone. Connect with doulas, our Perinatal Safe Spot, family resources, healing-centered programs, early childhood experiences, and community.

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

BEE invests in the people who care for families. Explore community-based doula training, mentorship, professional development, cooperative opportunities, educator learning, and spaces designed to sustain care workers.

Birth Workers / Educators

Birth Workers / Educators

Community is how this work grows.

Join gatherings, advocacy, community research, coalitions, volunteer opportunities, family events, and collective efforts to change the systems affecting children and families.

Community Care Makes a Difference

Our work begins with relationships, but its impact reaches families, workers, organizations, and systems.

  • 19+ Community birthworkers trained (19 birthworkers trained through BEE’s currentDONA/CAPPA community birthworker pathway)
  • 50+ birthworkers reached through training and professional development.
  • 100% of clients in FY24–25 cohort delivered at term
  • 100% initiated and continued breastfeeding in that cohort
  • 9 average doula encounters per client
  • South Carolina’s First Community-Based Perinatal Safe Spot

Our Work

We recruit, train, and support a new generation of birth workers that honor the wisdom and traditions of the many elder and ancestor granny-midwives that have served and protected our communities.

Perinatal Services
Perinatal Services
Early Childhood
Early Childhood
Coalition Building
Coalition Building
Water Activities
Healing Justice

Our Leadership

Our leadership team helps steward the vision, relationships, resources, and day-to-day work of BEE, but BEE has always been bigger than any one person or leadership team. We are accountable to and shaped by the larger collective of people who make this work possible.