Doula Program Consultant Services
Childbirth Professionals International can assist your community based organization, hospital, or birth center to develop a program to provide doula care to pregnant women and their families.
Doulas provide important care as part of the health team. Doula care has the following benefits for women giving birth:
- Reduces anxiety and stress
- Shortens labor
- Reduces labor pain
- Reduces need for medication
- Reduces need for vacuum/forceps
- Reduces cesarean birth
- Increase overall satisfaction with birth experience
Read “The Evidence for Doulas” by Rebecca L. Dekker, PhD, RN, APRN Click to read.
Many hospitals in the United States have successful doula programs using one or a combination of the following models:
- Hospital managed free volunteer doula program
- Hospital managed out of pocket paid doula program
- Partnership with local community doula program
- Families self select their own private doula
Examples of Hospital Doula Programs
- Sutter Davis Hospital
- San Francisco General Hospital
- UC San Diego
- Johns Hopkins Medical Center
- Valley Health System, New Jersey
- Lexington Medical Center
Consultant Services
Assistance with the start or growth of doula programs:
- Proposal preparation
- Program development
- Program management
- Volunteer recruitment and screening
- Training staff
- Cultural competency program design and implementation
Doula Certification Training
We offer Doula training courses and an international certification program.
Additionally we have advanced Doula workshops for experienced doulas to maintain their skills and increase their knowledge.