CBE training courses

Tashina Marker · 07-30-2006, 06:40 PM

Has anyone taken a or going through a CBE traing course? I am interested in ALACE's ,but would like to know what it takes.I am trying become a certified doula through ALACE.What about DONA's or CAPPA's?

tlcdoula · 07-30-2006, 07:22 PM

I think when looking at training as a CBE you need to first decide where you plan to go with your training and what is accepted in your area. For example, I trained through CAPPA because I had planned on only working for myself. Well, things changed and a job opened that I wanted - unfortunately most of the area hospitals will not accept my training through CAPPA and will only honor Lamaze or ICEA. So now I am certifying through ICEA and spending even more money. The training prices were comparable but now instead of only going through the process once I am doing it again.

So, seriously think about what path you would like to take and if you plan on working for anyone else - even if you don't plan on it you might want to find out who the hospital accepts and go with one of them.

teachinmamaof4 · 07-30-2006, 07:24 PM

I'm currently going thru CAPPA. At training we put together a class outline which was nice to have a base to get started from. Other than the training it's just reading, some class observations, observing births and the test. All the info is on their site. I like CAPPA because while I have the organization behind me, I am free to make the class mine. I'm not required to teach from a curriculum that I might not agree with 100%.

I'd love to do ALACE's some day. I've heard really good things about their program. It's just a little more $$ than I can manage right now.