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Certification

  • Perinatal Professionals Association

    My Doula University ™ Postpartum Doula Trainings have been approved by Perinatal Professionals Association for certification.

    After taking my training, you can begin the process of certification.

    Certification with Perinatal Professionals Association meets the criteria for insurance reimbursement and employer benefits coverage (Carrot, Maven, etc).

  • Provisional Certification Process

    After taking the Doula University ™ Postpartum Doula Training, you can go through the process of Certification with Perinatal Professionals Association.

    STEPS TO PROVISIONAL CERTIFICATION:

    1. Take a Postpartum Doula Training with Doula University ™

    2. Become a member of Perinatal Professionals Association ($65)

    3. Take a Lactation Class for Doulas. Class must be at least 3-4 hours and geared towards doulas. Doula University ™ offers this class

    4. Get your Infant/Child CPR Certification from American Heart Association or Red Cross. Must have manikin practice.

    5. Enroll in the Certification Portal with Perinatal Professionals Association ($125)

    6. Take the Standards of Practice Exam and pass with 100%

    7. Sign/Agree to PPA’s policies

    After the above steps are complete, you will have earned a 1 year Provisional Certification while you work on your FULL Certification

  • Full Certification

    After completing the Provisional Certification with Perinatal Professionals Association, you need to begin working on your FULL Certification.

    STEPS TO FULL CERTIFICATION:

    1 . Within 1 year of earning Provisional Certification, submit 100 Certification Points, PPA will give you many options to earn these points.

    2. Take a comprehensive exam on various Postpartum Doula topics to demonstrate proficiency.

    3. After certification points are submitted, and the comprehensive exam is passed, you will earn a 3-year Postpartum Doula Certification.

    You must maintain membership with Perinatal Professionals Association at all times.

Who are Perinatal Professionals Association?

  • We all love being doulas and perinatal educators, and we also loved being doula/educator trainers. Helping new birthworkers begin their journey in one of the most rewarding, and very needed, careers is just as meaningful as serving our own clients. With well over 100 years of combined experience, we worked in a system that had its flaws but it is what it is and we stayed because it was the standard in the system and it was adequate. That is, until the day the system inspired the solution.

  • The decades of minor frustrations about awkward client evaluations and busy work steps for the certifications that our students were losing interest in, and increasing fees with decreasing benefits, all prompted us to work together to disrupt the standard. Instead of staying stuck, and staying quiet, to practices and changes that weren’t meeting the needs of the students we trained, we used the feedback of hundreds of birthworkers from the last several years to create an experience we could be proud of.