CAPPA is one of the recognized organizations for the

Tricare Childbirth and Breastfeeding Demonstration.

The CAPPA Labor Doula Training -

Fee: $550 with a $100 deposit to hold your space.

This eighteen hour workshop meets the first requirement of your CLD program and prepares you to work through the steps for certification. This course is designed to provide a foundational skill base, knowledge, and perspectives on professional labor support for perinatal professionals, as well as providing training for those seeking certification as certified labor doulas with CAPPA. Offering 18 CAPPA Contact Hours. Nursing contact hours potentially available on request. The CAPPA Labor Doula Training Class includes the CAPPA Labor Doula Manual, and covers the following topics:

• CAPPA certification and policies

• Practical application of Scope of Practice, ethics, and integrity

• Building bridges with medical/midwifery professionals

• Modeling and teaching positive communication and self-advocacy

• Support for every stage of labor and birth

• Hands on practice of proven comfort measures and labor support techniques

• Emotional support for labor and birth, as well as unexpected events

• Hospital procedures – risk/benefit as well as alternatives and support

• Cesarean and VBAC support

• Prenatal and postpartum consultations and support

• Breast/chest feeding initiation and support

• Business development, marketing, and networking to create a successful career

• And much more!

What does your registration include?

All registrations will have:

• A One Year CAPPA Membership (Required for certification). This will be provided upon receiving the manual

• Access to CAPPA’s online community called CAPPA Connection

• Access to Amanda’s Group of Trained Doulas which provides on-going support in business and doula work

• Monthly emails with great information from CAPPA about doula work and evidence-based information

• 200+ page manual, folder of practical resources to help you get started as a doula, and hands-on materials for all trainings

• Connections with the local military community

• And more!

Certification Process

If you are interested in learning about the entire certification process including additional fees and requirements, please visit the CAPPA Labor Doula page.

Each student must be in attendance during the entirety of the training provided in order to receive a certificate of attendance for this Training Class. This training is through Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association (CAPPA).

Fees & Times

Cost of Tuition:  $550.

There may be a minimum number of participants for certain locations.

A $100 non refundable* deposit is required at the time of registration to reserve your seat in the training. The remaining balance, minus the deposit, is due before the training date. Some locations may require the remaining balance due by a certain number of days out. Contact Amanda at connect@oceansidehypnobirthing.com for payment plans or financing options.

Times vary for each training but typically run 8:30am-6:30pm for two day trainings. Details about breaks will be available prior to training. Doula meet and greets prior to training dates are optional to attend.

*For overseas trainings, if the minimum number of participants is not met by the deadline, the $100 deposit will be reimbursed.

About your trainer

Amanda Dodson has been supporting families since 2008 after she took her doula training while living in California with her husband when he served in the USMC. The majority of Amanda’s career has been providing services and advocating for military families stationed around the world. In 2011, their move brought them back to Okinawa, Japan where much of her time was spent learning how to navigate birth and doula support on and off base at military duty stations in Japan, educating Military Treatment Facilities and running a private organization called the Japan Birth Resource Network, now known as MBRNPC, a non profit. Since returning to the states in 2017 and her husband retiring from the USMC, Amanda has finally been able to fulfill one of her goals of becoming a labor doula trainer. She realized the need of having this type of resource and training readily accessible to the military community. Many families living at overseas and other stateside duty station lack resources or support needed during the pregnancy, birth and postpartum period. Doulas can help make that difference. It is one of her goals to saturate these locations with doulas to provide this type of support but potentially participate with the Tricare Demonstration. ( Amanda does not represent or work for any DoD government program or Tricare.)