Four Months. One Family. A Stronger Beginning.
Cultivated Beginnings is a free, four-month reproductive and perinatal education program for expecting families in Franklin County.
Designed for 20 expecting families, the program creates a welcoming space where parents, partners, and teens can learn together, ask questions, build community, and prepare for the journey ahead.
What You’ll Experience
Each month, families will participate in a family-centered workshop led by trained community health and birth professionals.
Topics include:
Pregnancy and prenatal wellness
Childbirth education
Postpartum wellness
Infant care
Infant feeding
Parenting and family wellbeing
Reproductive health education for teens
We've Thought About the Details, Too.
Every session includes:
🍽️ Family-Style Meals
Enjoy a meal together while connecting with other families.
🧸 Childcare
Free childcare helps make participation easier for families with young children.
🧘🏾 Mindfulness Activities
Each session creates intentional space to pause, breathe, and reconnect.
🎁 Participant Incentives
Families receive incentives throughout the program.
🤱🏾 Doula Support
Participants are eligible for doula support.
Who Can Participate?
Cultivated Beginnings is designed for expecting families in Franklin County who want to build knowledge, confidence, and community as they prepare for birth and parenthood.
Space is limited to 20 families: the expecting person being up to 6 months pregnant and (1) partner, (1) teen relative; childcare for up to 2 children between the ages of 2-10
Why Cultivated Beginnings?
We believe reproductive and perinatal education should extend beyond the expecting parent. When families learn together, knowledge travels across generations.
Cultivated Beginnings helps families prepare for pregnancy, birth, postpartum life, and infant care while giving teens the knowledge they need to make informed reproductive health decisions of their own.
Register Your Family
Complete the registration form below to be considered for the upcoming Cultivated Beginnings cohort.
Cultivated Beginnings is offered at no cost to participating families through generous community support, including funding from the Mount Carmel Foundation.
Cultivated Beginnings is Here!
A free, four-month experience designed to help families prepare, connect, and grow together.
Cultivated Beginnings is a free, four-month reproductive and perinatal education program serving 20 expecting families in Franklin County.
Led by trained community health and birth professionals, Cultivated Beginnings brings families together for monthly, family-centered workshops covering pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum wellness, infant care, infant feeding, and parenting. Teens in participating families receive age-appropriate reproductive health education designed to help them build knowledge and make informed decisions about their health and future.
Each session is designed with the whole family in mind and includes family-style meals, childcare, mindfulness activities, and participant incentives to make meaningful participation easier. Adult participants are also eligible to receive a postpartum doula visit.
Cultivated Beginnings is more than a class. It is an opportunity to build knowledge, strengthen families, connect with trusted community professionals, and enter parenthood with greater confidence.
Ready to cultivate your beginning?
Registration is now open for our next cohort, January-April 2027: January 6, February 3, March 3, April 7.
5:30p Dinner & Mindfulness Activities
6:00p Learning Sessions
8:00p Conclusion
Thanks to the generous support of the Mount Carmel Foundation, Cultivated Beginnings is continuing to create space for families to learn, connect, and thrive.