Parenting
Father2Child Program
License to Freedom’s Father2Child Program addresses a critical gap in services for refugee and immigrant men, focusing on parenting, mental health, and adjusting to life in the United States.
The program offers a safe, supportive space for men to share their experiences, discuss challenges, and develop healthier relationships with their children and spouses.
Through weekly sessions with 8–12 participants, the program encourages emotional expression, open communication, and mental well-being, areas often stigmatized in many cultures.
By tackling these issues directly, the program promotes stronger families and helps reduce the stigma around seeking mental health support.
Maternal Health
License to Freedom’s early childhood program offers educational information and discussions on maternal health and how that can affect both the mothers and their children. Our program serves pregnant moms and mothers with children from birth to age three.
Mothers in the program often face multiple, intersecting barriers to care, including language differences, limited access to culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services, economic hardship, and isolation from extended family networks. Many have survived traumatic events such as political persecution, gender-based violence, and abrupt separation from loved ones.
License to Freedom’s early childhood program model’s design ensures that participants receive support in their native languages, from facilitators who share their cultural background and lived experience, creating a safe and trusted environment for healing.
By centering these communities, the model addresses a critical gap in maternal mental health care, offering culturally rooted, community-led interventions during the most formative years of a child’s life.
The model integrates therapeutic and cultural healing practices tailored to the community. Narrative Healing uses story circles and life mapping to help mothers reframe traumatic migration and displacement experiences as evidence of resilience, while preserving cultural heritage and language.
Somatic Health provides body-based tools, such as culturally adapted breathwork, grounding exercises, and sensory activities, to regulate stress during pregnancy and postpartum. Early Childhood Flourishing focuses on emotional coaching, attachment-building routines, and play-based learning that integrate heritage songs, foods, and stories.