• Our Foundational Doula Training will equip you with the skills and knowledge to support women and birthing people through:
  – Pregnancy
  – Labour and birth
  – The early postnatal period
  – Navigating the Australian maternal health system

• You will gain a true understanding of how your practice will contribute to health equity and community-based doula support, which responds directly to, and respects, the cultural and/or social needs of women and birthing people
• You will experience a trauma-informed and culturally sensitive training perspective via evidence-based practice, and benefit from the value of lived experience and peer learning provided by our experienced team
• You will graduate prepared to work with all birthing people, including – and especially – Birth for Humankind client groups and other people experiencing financial and social disadvantage who encounter barriers when accessing the health system
• You will have the opportunity to volunteer as a doula with Birth for Humankind on completion of your training in order to fulfill the practical birth support requirements to attain certification – our pricing structure reflects this
• You will receive advice on working as a doula in private practice, that will allow you to grow your own business should you choose to
  
  

Who can apply for our Foundational Doula Training Program?

• This course is open to anyone interested in becoming a birth doula – no prior training is necessary
  
  

How is the program delivered?

• Our in person training runs over six days in March (March 4, 5, 6, 18, 19, and 20). After that, there is a one day in person Organisational Volunteer Induction Training session (March 27); OR
• You can choose to do the training as a fully online self-directed learning option.