Become a Trained Doula with Community Aware Birthworker
Join Oily Doula and Holistic Continuum for a weekend packed with tips and tools to prepare you to support families during their birthing time!
During our weekend intensive, you'll gain the fundamentals of becoming a birth doula. Through discussion and interactive activities, you will learn skills and tools to provide support for birthing families from pregnancy, birthing time and early postpartum with a focus on equity and our role in bias and the current state of maternity care.
Training Details:
When: Training weekends offered first weekend of the month in Feb, May, Oct, Dec. Friday-Sunday, 9am-6pm CST (with breaks)
Where: Twin Cities area residents: In-person at Holistic Continuum, Hopkins, MN,
Not a resident of the Twin Cities area: via Zoom
Certification: Full participation required to receive your certificateLive via Zoom with potential hybrid, virtual and in-person option.
Cost: $250 non-refundable deposit due at sign up. Payment plan available after deposit.
*Training qualifies for Medicaid Reimbursement
Birth Doula Training Topics include:
Birth Videos in Different Scenarios
Doula Practice/Ethics/Advocacy
Doula Business
Prenatal Visits, Birth and Postpartum Visits
Bias in Healthcare/Medical Care (Racism and LGBTQIA Focus)
Comfort/Coping Strategies/Birth Positions
Childbirth Education Overview
Lactation Education Overview
Hot Button Issues in the Birth World
Staying Connected/Community Involvement...Make a Difference/Networking
As a CAB Trained Doula, get access to continued programming:
Bridge Events
Birth Doula Certification
Mentorship Program
Lactation Training
And more!
Community Aware Birthworker graduated their first cohort of NINE new birth doulas in June, 2021.
We are an independent doula training. CAB is recognized by the State of MN as a Doula Certifying Organization. If you continue with full CAB Doula Certification with CAB you can join the Doula Registry of MN.