The Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort

The Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort has, for 25 years, served people in New York City with serious illness who are at the end stage of life and largely alone.

Our services are free to anyone who needs them, and we coordinate with the medical teams of the people we serve to help ensure that all facets of their care are being addressed.By carefully screening, intensively training and then thoughtfully matching volunteers to people who need our help, we foster supportive relationships that, in many cases, become the only meaningful and ongoing relationship in a client’s life, as their illness progresses and their isolation increases.

We continue to supervise and provide ongoing education and support to our volunteers, who commit to regularly visiting the person they serve, wherever that person is and for as long as they live—whether that’s for 6 months or 6 years.