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Become a CAPPA Certified Postpartum Doula (CPD)
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Live In-Person or Virtual Training
Our top training option! Register for an in-person or live training experience and get the benefit of asking questions from your expert CAPPA trainer. Choose your training dates. Prep materials available before the course start date.
Traditional Training
Dual/Transfer Training
Online Distance Training
About Postpartum Doulas
The CPD training program is designed to train and certify professionals to work with families during the postpartum period, offering emotional, physical, and evidence-based informational support, along with encouragement, education, and referrals as needed.
Postpartum Doulas can be found working in private practice, cooperatives, agencies, and community-based programs, as well as supporting families in home and community settings.
Which Course is Right for You?
Live Training
This course is designed for students who choose to take a training class with approved Faculty. Training classes have in-person, virtual, and hybrid options!
Traditional Training
This course is designed for students who choose to take a training class with approved Faculty. Training classes have in-person, virtual, and hybrid options!
Dual/Transfer Training
This course is designed for students who choose to take a training class with approved Faculty. Training classes have in-person, virtual, and hybrid options!
Online Distance Training
This course is designed for students who choose to take a training class with approved Faculty. Training classes have in-person, virtual, and hybrid options!
The CAPPA Postpartum Doula is not a clinician and therefore does not:
- Diagnose medical conditions
- Interpret medical diagnoses or clinical results
- Prescribe or administer treatment of medical conditions
- Perform clinical procedures, including taking infant’s temperature or administering medications to infant or mother
- Prescribe, perform, or provide alternative/complementary therapies including, but not limited to, essential oils, placenta medicine, herbal treatments, etc. without further training. These services must be provided separately from the role of the CAPPA certified professional.
- Make parenting or infant care choices or decisions
- Transport any family members
- Stay alone with babies or other children routinely and for extended periods of time
- Buckle infants or other children into cars or car seats or install car seats in cars
- Teach a cry it out approach
- Act as a housekeeper or nanny
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