The Perinatal Support Professional is a certified birth professional paid by Birthing Beautiful Communities to render services for BBC clients. This contractor is highly trained and skilled in various areas, including labor support, stress management, emotional support, breastfeeding, contraception education, smoking cessation as well as case management, peer to peer interaction and collectivism. This role requires an interview process and  has some additional training and requirements. This role is available depending on capacity and administrative needs.

The total cost of training and supplies is $800. A $100 deposit is due at the time of registration. $200 is due per week after that until the total amount has been paid. You may also choose to pay the entire amount at one time. Finding scholarships from community and church groups are up to the individual to secure on their own. Payment will still need to be made by money order or check and provided on behalf of the trainee. Payment must be completed before certification can be completed

You will be an entrepreneur and learn how to use birth work to build your own business. We will provide you with best practices for birth work, and general procedures but who and how you serve is up to you and you can truly find your own niche within those guidelines. Do to the nature of birth work we can make no promises or guarantees.

A good candidate for doula work is a detailed, mostly self-directed and disciplined person with a passion for birth equity, improving birth outcomes and supporting mothers during all perinatal stages. This roles requires training with little to no absences, some travel, and organization to insure time management and modeling for clients. This person must have a flexible schedule and be available to serve clients.  A secondary function is to ensure that you attend clients births or serve postpartum clients in a meaningful way.

 A good candidate will be able to serve clients with different backgrounds, family cultures, and needs. Be aware of the community she serves and able to do some community outreach. Creates birth plan with a client. Provides continuous labor support and provides support during pregnancy, labor and/ or postpartum. Provide some breastfeeding support.

This is all up to you and how much you invest into your business. This also means you are able to make decisions around how and when you work as long as the work is completed within the contract guidelines agreed upon with your clients. as we are certifying you, we make no promises or guarantee to how many hours you will actually work or how successful you will be. We encourage individuals to maintain other employment as they explore this business.

Once you have registered you can choose a time slot to make payment, ask questions, pick up supplies or we can ship the supplies. Appointments are limited. Training willl require ZOOM and access to google drive. We require all participants to have cameras turned on during zoom.

Registration is not complete until $100.00 Deposit is paid to Birthing Beautiful Communities. In general payments can be made by pay pal or mailed to our address via check / money order- no cash. Once deposits are received for 15 participants, we will close out training by email. Balance is due in full before The first day of class and before certification exam can be administered. For this particular training, payment must be made by check or money order only or electronic payment and must be made payable to Birthing Beautiful Communities with the participants name printed in the memo line along with the word training. If electronic payments are available by email request to training@birthingbeautiful.org due to issues with postal delays. Training will take place the week of January 15 - 22 1-6, April 10 - 17 4 to 9 and July TBD. * Please note the training is virtual and participants will need to log onto zoom daily between 1 and 6pm or 4 to 9 and if absent they will need to review the virtual classroom used for training on their own and follow along in a self directed format. Changes to timeframes and days of the week can be made if the training group decides to agree to new timeframes including evening and morning training slots. Participants will be required to sign a nondisclosure agreement and general training agreement that includes all policies. Manuals and materials are required to be returned for any person who does not make full payment by the end of their training session.