This event is hosted by The Family Preservation Project.

A virtual training centering Disability Justice–informed advocacy, consent-based support, and strategies for standing alongside Disabled people and families throughout their perinatal journey. Our goal is to equip doulas with tools to support Disabled parents and pregnant people within systems that often conflate care with control.

*Certificates of completion will be provided to all doulas.

Focus and Scope

• This training is open to doulas of all backgrounds and practice settings. While the content addresses working with Disabled people across a wide range of experiences (including physical, sensory, psychiatric, and chronic health disabilities) particular attention will be given to supporting pregnant people and parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).

• We will explore how doula care can be adapted to meet diverse communication styles, cognitive access needs, supported decision-making practices, and autonomy-centered frameworks. The training will also examine the distinct forms of surveillance, ableism, capacity-questioning, and paternalism that disproportionately impact people with I/DD in perinatal systems, and how doulas can provide protective, respectful support within those realities.