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Our vision is that every TN family has access to all types of doula care no matter their race or income level. Doulas work to ensure the voice of the family is the center of care, which is crucial for safety, trust, and better outcomes. We believe that through collaboration and respect among doulas, community partners, and healthcare professionals, we can increase the accessibility of respectful, evidence-informed, and supportive care from the community and healthcare system. This change will improve birth and postpartum outcomes, making Tennessee the best state to be pregnant and birth our children. Doulas don't just change birth. We change generations.

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Benefits of Joining TNDA

  • Listing on TNDA doula directory 

  • Continuing education videos (including loss, client interviewing, and conflict resolution)

  • Access to doula business files 

  • TNDA digital badge 

  • Office depot printing discount

  • Updated about TN doula legislation

  • Mentoring with an experienced doula 

  • Community networking: connect with other doulas in your area. 

  • Attendance to October Nashville doula conference for free

Requirements to Join

  • Proof of training as a doula (all trainings accepted)

  • Serve clients that live in TN

  • CPR trained, or within 90 days of joining

  • Annual fee: $70 (+fee for background check the first year of membership)

Joining TN Doulas Association

Annual Membership cost $70.


Requirements to join:

  1. Proof of training as a doula

  2. Serve clients that live in TN

  3. Background check unless already a licensed TN health professional

  4. CPR/BLS/ NRP trained, or within the year of joining

Would you like to be listed on our public doula directory
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We all benefit from helping in the doula community. How would you like to be part of us?
I would like to volunteer instead of paying for a membership. +Please select your areas of interest and we will contact you to discuss the options.

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Want to Train or Certify as a Doula?

Is your burning desire to be the guiding light, steady hand, and compassionate heart to walk alongside families on their journey of birth and beyond?  Are you dreaming of becoming a doula, but not sure where to start? Stop dreaming and put your desire into action. We can answer your questions on how to start your doula career and even have scholarships to help train and certify doulas. Fill out the application and we will contact you to give you more information.

Our Current Projects

All Hands In

Doulas in Every County

We are working to locate and train at least 2 doulas in all 95 TN counties.

3 TNDA DOULA STAGES
Level Up Your Doulaness!

TRAINED

This is a new doula who has attended doula skills and lactation support training. 

CERTIFIED

This type of doula has completed training and many hours of prep work along with supporting multiple clients. She can support you well and usually her fees increase based on her level of experience. 

STATE VERIFIED

She is trained, certified, has a clean background check, and has taken advanced training: Mental Health Awareness, Rebozo, Peanut Ball, Conflict Resolution, Doula Presence, Partner Support Training, CPR, Cultural Competency, and more.

Become a State Verified Doula

Please fill out this form to enter your verification steps. Once we receive your submission, we will review it and get back to you. It could take 1 to 2 weeks for us to respond. If there is clarification needed, please respond to our email requests as we might ask to be sent proof of certificates. Once all items have been verified and completed, we will email you the verification certificate. 

+You must already be a member of TNDA to get verified. If you are not a member, please join the TN Doulas Association first.

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3. List the date you were CPR/ BLS/ NRP trained?
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11. What date did you complete the TN Mandated Child Abuse Reporting? If not completed yet, please complete it at the following link https://www.tn.gov/dcs/program-areas/training/cw-resources/mandated-reporter-training.html
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We serve everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, immigration status, religion, or disability. We believe we all have something to contribute. We believe we can all learn from one another. 

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Privacy Notice

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Tennessee Doulas Association. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.

2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.

4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

 

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing 
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

 

Your Access to and Control Over Information 
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.

  • Change/correct any data we have about you.

  • Have us delete any data we have about you.

  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

 

Security 
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 859-533-4667 or via email (tennesseedoulasassociation@gmail.com).

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