Hello, Welcome to the Water Signs Community.
Our mission is to provide support for growing BIPOC families in the Ozarks through community based, culturally conscious practices, holding space for our families through trying to conceive, pregnancy, labor and delivery, fourth trimester and beyond.
Our Story
Educate. Empower. Enhance.
It is incredible how one small idea can grow into something truly special. Water Signs Community Perinatal Services began as a class project. Our Founding Executive Director, Hannah Jayne Harris, was teaching a service-learning section of a college class focused on diversity. The students in the class chose to focus their study on the hidden costs of womanhood. Through their exploration, they focused on the added costs of being a pregnant employee and bearing the costs of switching out a wardrobe for just a few months of your life to keep up with societal and employer expectations for appearance. Through this, our maternity clothing closet was envisioned and was established in 2021.
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Since then, Dr. Harris' students have continued to grow the closet project each semester. Through encouragement from her students and her peers, she started to dream bigger about expanding access to doula care and parent support for the growing BIPOC community in the Ozarks.
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Water Signs was granted 501c3 tax-exempt status in October 2023 and is growing and expanding with passion and intentionality.