A Job Training Pilot Project Designed to Train Previously Incarcerated Women to Become Birth Doulas

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Investigator: Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN
Sponsor: Alameda County Health Care Services Agency

Location(s): United States

Description

Expand the current Birth Justice Project services provided in San Francisco to Alameda County:

·     Develop a vocational doula training program,

·     Provide women's health empowerment groups for incarcerated women, and

·     Provide birth doula care and breastfeeding support for pregnant inmates.