GPS Community Programs

GPS for New Parents

The transition into parenthood is profound, filled with love and growth, but often marked by isolation, anxiety, and stress. Many parents experience perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) and feel overwhelmed by the changes of early parenthood. Organizations serving parents know firsthand how essential it is to provide effective, accessible, and culturally responsive support. GPS equips your team to do just that — creating spaces where parents feel connected, supported, and empowered.

Strengthening Parents Through Peer Support

GPS partners with organizations to bring evidence-based, trauma-informed support to new and expecting parents. We provide facilitator training, customized curriculum, and ongoing expertise so that your team can successfully run peer support groups that strengthen families during the perinatal period. By partnering with GPS, your organization can:

Train Facilitators – Equip staff, peer specialists, and community health workers with the skills to lead safe, trauma-informed groups.
Access Proven Curriculum – Use our evidence-based, culturally responsive content designed to address the real challenges of early parenthood.
Offer Parent Support Groups – Integrate GPS groups seamlessly into prenatal and postpartum programs, pediatric clinics, and community organizations.
Rely on Ongoing Expertise – Receive coaching, program design support, and evaluation tools to ensure long-term success.

For organizations serving parents, GPS for New Parents is a powerful, scalable way to extend support beyond traditional clinical care—helping families not only survive but thrive in the earliest and most critical stage of parenthood.

How GPS for New Parents Helps

GPS for New Parents equips organizations, families, and communities with the tools, training, and support they need to create safe, connected, and resilient spaces where parents can thrive. By combining evidence-based practice with peer-led compassion, GPS strengthens the web of support around new parents and the systems that serve them.

For Organizations and Professionals
GPS equips staff —including clinicians, community health workers, and peer specialists— with facilitator training, evidence-based curriculum, and ongoing support. This builds your team’s capacity to deliver effective, trauma-informed parent groups without requiring major new infrastructure.
For Parents and Families
GPS groups reduce isolation, normalize the emotional ups and downs of new parenthood, and provide practical tools to navigate stress and anxiety. Parents leave groups feeling more confident, more connected, and better supported in caring for themselves and their children.
For Systems and Communities
GPS integrates seamlessly into prenatal care, postpartum programs, pediatric practices, and community initiatives. By strengthening the safety net around parents, GPS ensures long-term impact while keeping costs manageable.
For Long-Term Resilience
GPS not only addresses immediate needs during the vulnerable perinatal period but also builds lasting coping skills and networks of support. Parents carry these tools forward, creating healthier families and more resilient communities.

Why GPS for New Parents?

GPS doesn’t deliver a one-size-fits-all program. We partner with organizations to co-create support that reflects the realities of the parents you serve. Using our evidence-based curriculum and training expertise, we adapt group content to meet the needs of diverse populations — ensuring it is culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and directly relevant.

With GPS, organizations are able to expand their impact while parents gain the connection, skills, and confidence they need to thrive.

Populations We Support Together

GPS has extensive experience tailoring groups for a wide range of parents, including:

Parents of color and immigrant parents
Parents experiencing postpartum depression/anxiety/PMADs or pregnancy/birth trauma
Parents in recovery, coping with illness, or facing housing insecurity

Parents navigating NICU stays or infant loss
Parents building families through IVF or other nontraditional paths
Families of many forms including stepparents, foster parents, grandparents

By collaborating with GPS, your organization can offer programming that honors these realities while strengthening families and communities.

“This group has helped me feel welcome and like I have people I can talk to when motherhood gets overwhelming.”
GPS For New Parents Support Group Participant
“I’m a first-time mom of color, and not only does the group get me and baby out of the house, it gives me a chance to connect with other parents of color, and my baby a chance to socialize as well!”
GPS For New Parents Support Group Participant
“Thank you, because in this place I felt supported, listened to and above all I was able to express my feelings.”
GPS For New Parents Support Group Participant
“This group has shown me that parenting isn’t easy, but there are ways to get through tough times, and there are people to talk to.”
GPS For New Parents Support Group Participant

Curriculums for New Parents

GPS has developed specialized, evidence-based curriculums designed to address the unique realities of pregnancy, birth, and early parenting. Each curriculum is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and adaptable to the families your organization serves.

We partner with organizations to customize and co-create curriculum content so that it reflects the strengths, challenges, and cultural contexts of your parent population.

Our curriculums for new parents include modules on:

Identity and Role Transitions: Exploring how parenthood reshapes identity, relationships, and family dynamics.
Emotional Well-Being: Addressing stress, anxiety, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs).
Partner and Family Relationships: Strengthening communication and shared caregiving.

Coping and Resilience: Practical tools for navigating sleep loss, stress, and the unexpected challenges of new parenthood.
Healing and Recovery: Supporting parents through pregnancy and birth trauma, loss, or NICU stays.
Self-Care and Empowerment: Building confidence in parenting while maintaining personal well-being.

These curriculums can be used to train facilitators, guide support groups, or be integrated into broader prenatal, postpartum, and community-based programs.