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Childbirth Educators Training Program
The Douglas College Perinatal Program offers training for those who would like to become a Childbirth Educator. We are excited to be offering this training as a Lamaze approved program with all the benefits of partnering with the internationally recognized leaders and experts in childbirth education.
Why Become Lamaze Certified
A Lamaze educator is a skilled and knowledgeable teacher who guides women and their families through the extraordinary journey of pregnancy and birth. Integrating traditional wisdom and contemporary knowledge with the high-tech world of modern obstetrics, Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators provide women and their families with evidence-based education on nature's simple plan for birth. LCCE educators work collaboratively with other birth professionals to advance the mission of Lamaze International -- to promote, support and protect normal birth through education and advocacy and to achieve the Lamaze vision for a world of confident women choosing normal birth.
For nearly 50 years, Lamaze International has been the leading provider of evidence-based education programs that prepare childbirth educators to teach with skill and confidence. The Lamaze certification program meets the highest standards for validity, reliability and fairness and is recognized as the only such program accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), the accrediting body of the National Organization of Competency Assurance (NOCA).
Flexible eligibility requirements make Lamaze certification achievable for experienced childbirth educators, midwives and midwifery students, doulas, nurses, and other health professionals as well as those new to childbirth education. The Lamaze credential, demonstrates to maternal-child health professionals and expectant families that a standard level of knowledge and skill has been achieved by the LCCE credential and is the mark of a competent, highly qualified childbirth educator. The purpose or goal of Lamaze certification is to provide childbirth educators who work as advocates for childbearing women throughout the world.
Certification by Lamaze is the most respected and recognized credential in childbirth education. Lamaze certification offers you the opportunity to:
- Gain and validate skills and knowledge.
- Increase confidence in your teaching ability.
- Enhance professional opportunities and career development.
- Expand knowledge of resources and teaching strategies.
- Earn the recognition and respect of colleagues.
- Demonstrate competence to expectant women and their families.
Competency Statements for LCCE Educators
A Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE) is able to:
- Promote the childbearing experience as a normal, natural, healthy process that profoundly affects women and their families.
- Assist women and families to discover and use strategies that facilitate normal, natural, healthy pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting.
- Help women and their families to understand how interventions and complications influence the normal course of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting.
- Provide information and support that encourages attachment between babies and their families.
- Assist women and their families to make informed decisions for childbearing.
- Act as an advocate to promote normal, natural, healthy, fulfilling childbirth experiences for women and their families.
- Design, teach and evaluate a course in Lamaze preparation that increases a woman's confidence and ability to give birth.
Options to choose from:
- You are an Experienced Childbirth Educator
As an experienced childbirth educator, you will challenge the final examination.
- You are a Midwife or Midwifery Student
As a midwife or midwifery student, you will register for the program and the Teaching Skills Workshop. You will be exempt from birth and class observations.
- You are New to the Childbirth Educator Field
As you are new to the field of childbirth education, you will register for the program and the Teaching Skills Workshop.
For further information about the program and application process e-mail Kathie Lindstrom at: lindstromk@douglas.bc.ca
This program is offered through distance education. Start anytime!
Fee: $850 (includes Lamaze Study Guide and Program Coordinator support).2010
Jan 4 – Mar 31
CRN: 11243
Apr 1 – Aug 31
CRN: 21233
Sep 1 – Dec 31
CRN: 31115