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Doula Programs: Scholarships for Doula Training
It is essential that community-based doula programs, seeking to recruit women to serve their low-income sisters as doulas, establish a scholarship program to underwrite the costs of doula training. Otherwise, your program will end up with a doula pool consisting primarily of middle class white women. Please don’t expect the doula trainers to eat this cost. We do what we can do, but we cannot make a living, giving something for nothing, over and over and over again.
When writing grant proposals to fund your doula program, include doula training scholarships for low-income women to become doulas as a line item in your grant budget. See my book, The Doula Business Guide to learn more about how we managed to fund hundreds of women to complete doula training, including pre-requisite classes and, in some cases, even covered certification fees.
The Doula Programs blog provides a forum for doula program visionaries and implementers to consider common challenges, ask questions, and learn from each other. Patty Brennan is the author of The Doula Business Guide: Creating a Successful MotherBaby Business.