The Black Maternal and Infant Health Equity Collaborative (BMIHEC) is a growing community initiative in which SBJN partners with Metro Mommy Agency, Magnolia Birth House and YWCA. Through this collaboration, SBJN offers our Birth Justice Doula Training. This initiative also includes training for hospital-based practitioners on the tenets of Birth Justice and how to facilitate physiologic birth. We believe this type of cross-sector model will build health equity infrastructure by enhancing the doula workforce and transforming hospital systems. The targeted outcome of this intervention aims at breaking existing silos within healthcare institutions and addresses existing social determinants affecting Black and Brown mothers and birthing people.
The Birth Justice Doula Training is open to the community; ideal for aspiring, new, and experienced doulas, or anyone else eager to gain skills in advocacy, holistic care, and justice in birth work. The training participants’ will develop knowledge and skills to support birthing families while improving outcomes.
The training is a 30-hours training that will cover Birth Justice 101, Community-Based solutions to the Black Maternal/Child Health national crisis, the Birth Justice Doula Scope of Practice & Advocacy Skills, Community Births VS Hospital Birth, Supporting a Healthy Childbearing Person, Lactation Support and the Role of the Doula, Postpartum Support and the Role of the Doula, Self-Care, How We Doula (Physical Support: Hands on Skills, Emotional Support, Information Support), Supporting Through Loss, Virtual Doula Support, Abortion Doula Care, Death by Delivery (State of Maternity Care for Black women in the USA), and Preconception Health, Interconception Health & Infertility and many more topics.
Following the 30 hours training, you will have the opportunity to pursue your certification as a Certified Birth Justice Doula. See table below with more details on the certification process.
Eligibility Requirements
Expectations
*If you are already a SBJN Birth Justice Doula, although you are not required to repeat the Birth Justice Doula Training, you are still required to complete the application, interview and acceptance letter to participate in the Pilot Doula Program.
What makes Southern Birth Justice Network's Birth Justice Doula Training & Cohort unique from other doula trainings?
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
― Assata Shakur
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