Doula Training Scholarships

Support for community-based birth workers.

Each year, BirthPro sets aside sixteen scholarship seats: eight full and eight partial.

This page walks you through how they work, who they’re for, and what to do if a scholarship seat isn’t available this round.

How Our Scholarships Work

Learn at your own pace

BirthPro's Full-Spectrum Doula Training prepares birth workers to support families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, with a foundation in physiology, emotional support, advocacy, and trauma-aware care.

Rolling entry dates allow for flexible starts.

We award two types of scholarships

Full scholarship: Tuition is covered. The only cost is a $100 admin fee, the one piece we ask every full-scholarship recipient to contribute so this program can keep running cohort after cohort.
Partial scholarship: 50% off tuition. No admin fee. No other cost beyond your discounted tuition

Prioritizing Community

These scholarships are funded directly by BirthPro, not by an outside grant or workforce program. Lorie reduces tuition for these seats because growing the number of skilled, community-rooted birth workers matters more than the revenue from those seats.

How We Award Scholarships

We review applications on a rolling basis, not in quarterly batches, so you don't have to wait for a deadline to apply or hear back. BirthPro awards up to 16 scholarship seats a year, across both full and partial scholarships.

Every application gets a real read. We look at your goals, your community, and the priorities below, and make a decision case by case, so you don't need to check every box to be considered.

Typical turnaround: approximately 10 days from a complete application.

Accepting your offer: once you're awarded a scholarship, you'll have one week to accept. Training is self-paced, so there's no cohort start date to plan around, we just ask for a quick yes so we can offer the seat to someone else if you're not ready to begin.

The Details

This is a hands-on program that asks for real time and real presence.
Knowing what you’re signing up for is part of setting you up to succeed.

Who Scholarships Prioritize

Every applicant is welcome to apply. Priority consideration goes to those who:

Plan to serve Medicaid or publicly insured families
Live or work in an area with limited access to birth support
Identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, or another underrepresented community in birth work
Are veterans, active-duty military, or military spouses
Are experiencing financial hardship that limits access to training

You don’t need to meet every point above to apply. Partial scholarships and reduced tuition are considered based on capacity and individual circumstances.

Time
Committment

Before applying, make sure this training fits your schedule. The program includes:

Core trainings, watch anytime via recording, at your own pace
Monday night mentoring calls, 8:00-8:30pm ET, required for the full length of your training, this is where the live component of this program happens (we can go slightly over time with lively discussions)
Offline coursework, about 3 hours a week
Births and postpartum shifts, hours vary by pathway

Attendance matters. Since Monday calls are the live piece of this training, we ask for real consistency: attend at least 8 sessions, with no more than 2 missed in a row. If you fall short, you'll have a chance to catch up, watch the recording and submit a short reflection, before your certification is finalized.