Yanam2M

About the Organization

Organization category

Public Charity

Country / State

United States / Colorado

Mission

YANA's mission is to ensure that all moms and families never feel alone.

Programs or services

YANA offers programs and services that help moms feel safe, valued, accepted, and less alone throughout motherhood.

Strong Mamas, Thriving Babies

A hospital integrated postpartum peer support program offered to families before they leave the hospital with their baby. Families receive a full year of connection through personal outreach, community groups, educational opportunities, family events, expert resources, and access to additional YANA services.

Peer Support Groups

Free, welcoming groups where moms can connect with others who understand the realities of motherhood. Groups provide a safe space for honest conversations, encouragement, friendship, and support without judgment.

Support Mom Program

Moms are matched with a trained volunteer Support Mom who offers consistent, personal encouragement based on shared experiences. A Support Mom is not a therapist or medical provider. She is a trusted peer who listens, checks in, and reminds another mom that she does not have to navigate motherhood alone.

YANA Community Room

A free resource space where families can access donated baby supplies, maternity items, clothing, diapers, hygiene products, and other essentials. Families are welcomed with dignity and can take the items they genuinely need.

Let’s Be Real Mama Journeys Podcast

A podcast featuring honest conversations about motherhood, mental health, caregiving, grief, resilience, relationships, and lived experience. Each episode helps normalize difficult conversations and reminds listeners that real motherhood does not have to look perfect.

Community Events and Education

YANA hosts family gatherings, stroller Walk and Talks, webinars, support activities, and educational events. These opportunities help families build meaningful relationships while learning from trusted community professionals.

Through every program, YANA works to make generational mental health change by supporting the people who create the people.

Detailed programs

YANA offers programs and services that help moms feel safe, valued, accepted, and less alone throughout motherhood.

Strong Mamas, Thriving Babies

A hospital integrated postpartum peer support program offered to families before they leave the hospital with their baby. Families receive a full year of connection through personal outreach, community groups, educational opportunities, family events, expert resources, and access to additional YANA services.

Peer Support Groups

Free, welcoming groups where moms can connect with others who understand the realities of motherhood. Groups provide a safe space for honest conversations, encouragement, friendship, and support without judgment.

Support Mom Program

Moms are matched with a trained volunteer Support Mom who offers consistent, personal encouragement based on shared experiences. A Support Mom is not a therapist or medical provider. She is a trusted peer who listens, checks in, and reminds another mom that she does not have to navigate motherhood alone.

YANA Community Room

A free resource space where families can access donated baby supplies, maternity items, clothing, diapers, hygiene products, and other essentials. Families are welcomed with dignity and can take the items they genuinely need.

Let’s Be Real Mama Journeys Podcast

A podcast featuring honest conversations about motherhood, mental health, caregiving, grief, resilience, relationships, and lived experience. Each episode helps normalize difficult conversations and reminds listeners that real motherhood does not have to look perfect.

Community Events and Education

YANA hosts family gatherings, stroller Walk and Talks, webinars, support activities, and educational events. These opportunities help families build meaningful relationships while learning from trusted community professionals.

Through every program, YANA works to make generational mental health change by supporting the people who create the people.

Target Audience

YANA’s primary target audience is moms during the first year after having a baby, regardless of income, background, diagnosis, or previous parenting experience. Through Strong Mamas, Thriving Babies, support is offered universally to families leaving participating hospitals with a live baby.

YANA also supports moms throughout every stage of motherhood through peer support groups, Support Mom connections, community events, educational resources, the Community Room, and the Let’s Be Real Mama Journeys podcast.

YANA places particular emphasis on moms who may experience increased isolation or barriers to support, including single moms, teen moms, moms of color, moms in recovery, moms experiencing postpartum mental health challenges, families with limited resources, and adoptive or kinship caregivers. Fathers and other caregivers may also participate in appropriate programs and family activities.

Geographic Focus

United States, Colorado (USA), Arapahoe County (CO), Denver County (CO), Douglas County (CO), El Paso County (CO), Elbert County (CO), Jefferson County (CO)

Current projects

YANA’s current projects include:

Strong Mamas, Thriving Babies

Expanding YANA’s hospital integrated postpartum peer support program to additional hospitals across Colorado and beyond.

Support Mom Program

Recruiting and training volunteers to provide personal peer support and encouragement to moms who need connection.

Peer Support Groups

Offering free groups where moms can discuss motherhood, mental health, recovery, grief, parenting challenges, and other lived experiences.

YANA Community Room

Providing free diapers, baby supplies, maternity items, clothing, hygiene products, and other essentials to families in need.

Let’s Be Real Mama Journeys Podcast

Sharing honest stories and expert conversations about motherhood, mental health, caregiving, resilience, and family life.

Walk and Talks

Creating opportunities for moms to move their bodies, bring their babies, meet other families, and reduce social isolation.

Family Events and Education

Hosting community gatherings, webinars, workshops, and activities that connect families with trusted professionals and local resources.

Hospital Billing and Sustainability

Exploring ways for hospitals and healthcare systems to financially support and bill for YANA’s postpartum peer support services.

Opioid and Overdose Prevention

Using connection, education, screening follow up, and peer support to reduce isolation and strengthen protective factors for postpartum moms affected by substance use.

Statewide Expansion

Building partnerships with hospitals, funders, healthcare leaders, and community organizations to make postpartum peer support available to more Colorado families.

Organization goals

YANA’s organizational goals are to:

Expand Strong Mamas, Thriving Babies into more hospitals throughout Colorado and eventually nationwide.
Ensure every postpartum mom has access to free, consistent peer support during the first year after birth.
Strengthen YANA’s Support Mom Program and peer support groups by recruiting, training, and retaining qualified volunteers and facilitators.
Reduce maternal isolation, postpartum mental health challenges, suicide risk, substance use relapse, and preventable family crises through early connection and support.
Increase access to practical resources through the YANA Community Room, family events, education, referrals, and trusted community partnerships.
Build a financially sustainable organization through hospital investment, insurance billing, grants, corporate sponsorships, individual giving, and long term partnerships.
Continue collecting and evaluating measurable outcomes to demonstrate YANA’s impact on maternal mental health, confidence, connection, and family wellbeing.
Grow YANA’s staff, volunteer network, technology, and operational capacity while preserving the personal, peer led nature of its programs.
Amplify honest stories about motherhood through the Let’s Be Real Mama Journeys podcast and other educational platforms.
Create generational mental health change by supporting the people who create the people.

Leadership

Nichole Brooker, nbrooker@yanamom.com, 303-229-3678, Founder/CEO
Savannah Becerril, sbecerril@yanamom.com, 303-437-6498, Program Director
Mary Hickey, mhickey@yanamom.com, 970-769-2557, Hospital Coordinator

Funding Needs

Grant categories you're seeking

Children, Community Services, Education, Health and Medical, Mental Health, Quality of Life, Women

Funding needs

YANA needs sustainable funding to continue serving families, strengthen current programs, and expand into additional hospitals and communities. Our primary funding needs include:

Strong Mamas, Thriving Babies

Funding for hospital coordinators, bedside enrollment, yearlong family outreach, support groups, educational programming, technology, data tracking, and community events.

Program Expansion

Startup funding for new hospital partnerships, including staff recruitment, training, hospital credentialing, outreach materials, technology, and local community engagement.

Staffing

Support for program directors, hospital coordinators, peer support staff, volunteer coordination, development, data management, and administrative operations.

Community Room

Funding for diapers, wipes, hygiene products, baby supplies, maternity items, storage, and the costs of maintaining a free and welcoming resource space.

Peer Support Services

Resources to recruit, train, supervise, and retain Support Moms and group facilitators who provide consistent support to families.

Transportation and Accessibility

Funding to help families overcome transportation, language, technology, and other barriers that may prevent them from accessing services.

Technology and Evaluation

Support for the Strong Mamas app, Salesforce, data analysis, outcome measurement, family communication, privacy protections, and program evaluation.

General Operating Support

Flexible funding for insurance, technology, office expenses, fundraising, communications, compliance, and other essential costs that keep YANA’s programs operating.

YANA is especially seeking multiyear funding, hospital investment, corporate sponsorships, grants, and individual donations. Reliable funding allows us to provide free support to families while building a sustainable model that can reach more moms throughout Colorado and beyond.

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