Perinatal Health Advocate Training

Do you work with pregnant women in your community? Are you concerned about the huge inequities in birth outcomes for low-resource mothers you serve? Learn to address these problems by adding “Perinatal Health Advocate” to your skill set.
How is a Perinatal Health Advocate different from a regular Birth Doula or from other Community Service Providers?
-A Birth Doula provides support directly related to pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.
The focus is on birth!
-A community service provider helps connect people with resources and support throughout the life course. The focus is on a family’s global needs!
-A Perinatal Health Advocate focuses on connecting mothers with resources and support for her pregnancy, birth and for parenting. The focus is on the mother’s global needs during pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum.
A Perinatal Health Advocate understands how the environment in which a mother lives affects her pregnancy and birth.
A Perinatal Health Advocate is aware of the unacceptable health disparities affecting women in our communities.
Perinatal Health Advocates help connect women to the resources they need to lead healthy lives and to complete healthy pregnancies.
BirthWell Partners’ goal is for women in our communities to carry pregnancies to term, growing chunky healthy babies.
We believe that Perinatal Health Advocates help make this happen!