NUESTRO EQUIPO
Our community-based training program prepares you to support families in your community.
Created by SisterWeb and Oklahoma Birth Equity Initiative (OKBEI), The Blossoming Birth Community Doula Training is a full-spectrum doula training program which prepares doulas to develop skills in perinatal emotional, physical, and educational support for birthing people and families in their communities. The training curriculum exemplifies a strength-based and community-focused approach to birthwork that integrates evidence-informed practice with ancestral wisdom.
What will I learn?
Practical Doula Skills
Labor and delivery support techniques, prenatal and postpartum health, lactation and infant feeding support, and more.
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Community-Based Practice
Combining ancestral wisdom with evidence-informed practice, providing culturally-concordant care, and deep listening techniques.
Interactive Learning
Hands-on skill development, participatory activities, discussions, and guest presenters.
This training is centered around Black and Indigenous birthing people of color and the community doulas that are supporting them nationwide. Utilizing the knowledge, wisdom, and lived experience of current doulas, lactation specialists, midwives, OB/GYNs, and additional providers, the curriculum will be holistic in its approach to birth work.
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Am I eligible?
To qualify for the program, you must be able to attend all in-person sessions in San Francisco. Due to a limited number of seats, not all qualified applicants are guaranteed admission into the program.
What is the cost?
Our program is grant-funded and provided at no cost to accepted applicants.
When does the next cohort begin?
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Su donación apoya a las doulas comunitarias, y la atención culturalmente congruente de las doulas y de alta calidad sin costo alguno para las familias Afroamericanas y
Latinas que dan a luz en
San Francisco.
¡Recuperemos nuestra ciudad, un nacimiento a la vez!
Blossoming Birth Train the Trainers Workshop
Bring the Blossoming Birth Community Doula Training to your community! This model of doula training is highly adaptable to different community needs, and uses strengths of individual communities to honor local wisdom and create a simplified and easy to use framework that communities can retain and use to train their own community members. SisterWeb and OKBEI provide the Blossoming Birth Train the Trainers Workshop and offer consultation for program design.
To learn more about the Blossoming Birth Trainers Workshop, email workforce@sisterweb.org. ​
In the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year, SisterWeb Community Doulas and Community Doulas from BirthMatters in South Carolina and OKBEI in Tulsa, Oklahoma, participated in the Blossoming Birth Train the Trainers Workshop. This workshop prepared them to facilitate Blossoming Birth Community Doula Training in their communities. According to workshop evaluations:
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100% of trainees felt that presenters respected the diversity of cultures and backgrounds represented in the training
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100% of trainees felt safe throughout the training
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94% of trainees agreed that the learning environment was welcoming and inclusive