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Give mothers a path before they need it.

A prenatal visit can make postpartum warning signs, after-hours care, mental-health support, food, rest, and a realistic no-helper backup easier to reach later. The education guide is free, browser-based, and does not require an account or patient story.

Open the clinic toolkit

A prenatal education handoff

Show it, scan it, and make the local care path explicit.

Use the guide during pregnancy or at discharge as a conversation aid. It should supplement—not replace—the patient’s own discharge instructions, local triage number, follow-up plan, qualified interpreter, accessible format, and clinician judgment.

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Show the digital guide

Open it with the patient, point out the urgent-warning-sign path, and save the office and after-hours numbers that apply locally.

Open Before You Need It →
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Offer the QR handout

The QR code and visible URL lead to the same no-account guide. A visible address remains available for people who cannot or prefer not to scan.

Download the clinic handout →
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Complete the handoff

Ask the patient to repeat the after-hours route in her own words, provide language and disability access, and document who owns every open follow-up.

Read sources & review standards →
Pilot before broad distribution

The current release has completed editorial, safety, accessibility, route, and source-link checks; it has not yet completed named independent clinical review. Before distributing it at scale, obtain local OB and perinatal mental-health signoff and test it with mothers who reflect the community. Clinic use does not imply endorsement of The Village or its outside links.

Separate future professional circle

Independently licensed means independently accountable.

The founding list is intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, licensed professional counselors or mental health counselors, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and psychiatric nurse practitioners with a current independent U.S. license. Trainees and associate-license holders are not eligible for future unsupervised care through this model.

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Perinatal competence

Relevant training or experience is reviewed; interest alone is not represented as expertise.

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Scope before access

A professional may serve only within their license, competence, authorization, and insurance.

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Safety before scale

Clinical care does not begin until operations can support consent, privacy, escalation, records, and complaints.

Verification ladder

Before any future clinical match.

Telehealth licensure generally follows the patient's physical location, and requirements vary by jurisdiction. The federal telehealth guidance also advises clinicians to confirm liability coverage for telehealth and every location served.

HHS cross-state licensure guidance ↗HHS telehealth legal considerations ↗Counseling Compact FAQ ↗
  1. 01

    Identity

    Confirm the applicant is the professional represented.

  2. 02

    License

    Check active status and public disciplinary information with the issuing board.

  3. 03

    Location

    Confirm authorization in the state where the woman is physically located for each session.

  4. 04

    Coverage

    Verify professional liability coverage includes volunteer telehealth and every jurisdiction served.

  5. 05

    Operations

    Complete informed-consent, privacy, records, crisis, mandatory-reporting, complaint, and referral protocols.

  6. 06

    Recheck

    Reverify standing and authorization on a recurring schedule before a profile remains active.

Two future ways to serve

Generosity should not require clinicians to work for free.

The founding circle may include professionals who choose to donate limited hours. A separate future Village Care Fund is intended to pay verified clinicians a fair, pre-disclosed rate for approved sessions for women facing financial barriers. Neither pathway is active yet, and participation in one will never require participation in the other.

VOLUNTEER PATH

Offer a limited hour

Optional, bounded donated time with the same verification, scope, safety, privacy, and documentation standards as paid care.

FUNDED PATH

Be paid for approved care

Future charitable funds pay the clinician for completed eligible sessions; donors never choose the recipient or direct clinical decisions.

See the proposed Care Fund →
Operating boundary

The Village After Birth does not currently practice medicine, psychotherapy, or counseling. A public launch of donated clinical care would require qualified legal and clinical review, appropriate entity and insurance decisions, state-by-state workflows, informed consent, secure technology, emergency coverage, and documented governance. A disclaimer by itself is not a substitute for those safeguards.

PUBLIC INTAKE TEMPORARILY PAUSED

We are building the privacy and review process before collecting credentials.

Professional submissions are not being accepted right now. Intake will reopen only after a monitored contact, withdrawal and deletion process, documented reviewer access, retention schedule, and secure verification workflow are operational.

Please do not send license numbers, identity documents, patient information, or clinical records through an unlisted email or another site form.