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Happy Mama Healthy Baby Alliance

HEART AND HANDS POSTPARTUM DOULA TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

Participants in this class will learn essential skills to provide support to new mothers and care for newborns during the first few months after birth. Class content includes care of postpartum mothers, breastfeeding, newborn care, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, communication and counseling skills, cultural awareness, and addressing perinatal health inequities and disparities occuring among BIPOC persons. This course focuses on working with low-income African-American, Native-American, and Latina mothers and babies, who have the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality in the USA, California, and Los Angeles County. We provide Certification, apprenticeship, and employment opportunties. We also help graduates become credentialed as Medi-Cal doula providers in California. Course is Virtual. Can join from anywhere.

Cost: $1000.00

Instructor(s): Cordelia Hanna, MPH, CHES, ICCE, CLE, CBA

This is a live, virtual training event.

This training event meets from August 9 to August 30.

Meets Saturday from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Pacific Standard Time

This training event meets 4 times for a total of 24 hours.