What's in the toolkit
What this guide covers
Training and certification. DONA, CAPPA, ICTC, ProDoula, community-based: what each means, what to ask about training, and why community-based certifications carry equal or greater weight in Black-maternal advocacy.
Billing and Medicaid. Direct-pay rates, sliding scale, Medicaid managed-care enrollment status, how to find a Medicaid-billing doula in your state via the Medicaid doula coverage tracker.
Hospital relationships. Whether the doula has worked with your delivering hospital, what to expect from labor-and-delivery staff, and how to handle a doula being asked to leave.
The Black-maternal-mortality competency questions. Five questions that surface whether a doula has trained on Black-specific maternal-mortality risks (preeclampsia, hemorrhage advocacy, postpartum monitoring).
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