DTI Trained Doula Certification Pathway

• Comprehensive Certification Guide with tips, FAQs, checklists and forms. Everything you need to certify with DTI for life!
• Portal access where you can upload your documents as they are completed. The system will save your work until you are ready to submit.
• Access to virtual doula-to-doula support each month for community and connection
• Access to our Intro to DTI Basics: Birth Equity & Reproductive Health and our Slow Doula Method® courses.
• Certification for life once you are certified through DTI, you never have to recertify!

If you have trained through a different organization outside of DTI, with a proof of training document you are eligible for lifetime doula certification corresponding with the training you completed:

• Birth trainees may certify for life as a DTI birth doula
• Postpartum trainees may certify for life as a DTI postpartum doula
• Full-spectrum trainees may certify for life as a DTI full-spectrum doula

All DTI requirements must be completed. All client work documented must have occurred within the past 12 months and after your training.

1. A proof of training document denoting the date(s) you completed a full-spectrum (or birth or postpartum) training with another organization (if you trained with DTI, you don't need this)
2. Completion of the Birth Equity and Slow Doula Method modules included with your DTI Certification Pathway purchase
3. A typed copy of the local resource referral list you use with your clients
4. Outline of your business strategy: your goals for the next 1-5 years
5. DTI full-spectrum (or birth or postpartum) reading checklist 
6. Short essay: role of a doula, as if you were speaking to potential clients
7. Short essay: how you are making or plan to make an impact as a doula in your community
8. A proof of current infant & child CPR certification
9. Form documenting your observation of a birth class or series in the last 12 months (full-spectrum and birth doulas only)
10. Form documenting your observation of new parent support group or infant care/feeding class in the last 12 months (full-spectrum and postpartum doulas only)
11. *Evaluation forms for 3 **labor/birth clients and 3 corresponding stories/journal entries from the doula's perspective. May include Cesarean birth stories. (full-spectrum and birth doulas only)
12. Evaluation forms for 2 postpartum clients (full-spectrum and postpartum doulas only)
    

*Client work documented for certification must have occurred within 12 months from the time you submit your completed checklist.

**Certifying DTI full-spectrum doulas are permitted to submit up to 2 instances of reproductive health support, such as abortion care work, fertility treatment support, or miscarriage & loss in place of labor support.

If you are a trained DTI doula you can renew your membership to regain module access. You'll need to email us: hello@wearedti.com and we'll get you set up!

We recommend checking out our start any time / certify any time Full-Spectrum Doula Training Course. The certification pathway is included, as is your first year of membership. Provided your membership remains current, you may certify with us any time, rendering the purchase of a certification pathway unnecessary.

Once your checklist is completed, you'll never have to recertify with DTI. If you're working as a doula, you’re staying current. We do recommend considering the DTI Community Membership! The support and resources provided here include access to special continuing education classes each month.