Groups for Birth Professionals.

This is a listing of local groups for childbirth educators and labor assistants/birth doulas. These groups provide networking opportunities, continuing education, public awareness activities, or peer support for birth professionals. Please call the contact person for information. If you know of a group that should be listed here, or if there is information on this list that should be changed, please contact the ALACE office.

California

Berkeley: East Bay Doula Circle, meets
monthly. Call Holly Wiersma at (925)
947-5874.

Los Angeles: Doulas Association of
Southern California, meets monthly. Call
DeAnne Spicer Todd at [phone].

Sacramento: Valley Foothill Doula
Collective, meets monthly. Call (888)
DOULA-4-U.

Santa Cruz: Birth Network of Santa Cruz
County. Call Laura Maxson at (831) 425-
3373.

Connecticuit

Hartford: Connecticuit Doula Network,
meets bimonthly. Call Joanne Baker-
Guerrette at [phone].

Maine

Bangor: Maine Association of Inter-
national Doulas (MAID), meets monthly.
Call Evelyn Conrad at [phone].

Maryland

Columbia: Chesapeake Midwifery Guild,
meets bimonthly on the second Friday.
Call Eloise Stager, [phone].

Massachusetts

Boston: Labor Assistant Group, meets
bimonthly: Call the ALACE mare office
at [phone].

Boston: Labor Support Backup Network,
meets every three months. Call Mary
Evans at [phone].

Minnesota

Minneapolis: The Childbirth Collective,
weekly parent topic nights, continuing
education. Call Noelle Haland at (612)
721-4820.

Missouri

Columbia: Mid-Missouri Doula
Cooperative, meets on the third Monday
of the month at 6 p.m. Call DeeDee
Farris-Folkerts at [phone].

New Jersey

Bergen County: BirthNet, meets several
times a year. Call Vicki Hedley at (201)
505-1214.

Lakewood: Childbirth Study Group, meets
on the third Thursday of the month. Call
Heather Baek at [phone].

New York

Ithaca: Women's Health Study Group.
Call Marlo Capoccia at [phone].

New York City: Metropolitan Doula
Group, meets one Sunday per month
from 5-8 p.m. Visit their website at
www.nydoula.com.

Rochester: Rochester Birth Network.
Call Lynn Barnett at [phone].

North Carolina

Charlotte: Charlotte Doulas. Meets
bimonthly. Call Deborah Sue Griffin at
(1704) 544-9806.

Ohio

Cincinnati: Doulas Unlimited. Call Pam
Kleingers at [phone], or Susan
Keith-Hergert at [phone].

Columbus: Birth Workers of Central
Ohio. meets every six to eight weeks.
Call Jill Vagedes at [phone].

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City: Doula Association of
Central Oklahoma, meets on the third
Sunday of the month. Call Gwen Hill at
[phone].

Pennsylvania

Lancaster/Harrisburg: Susquehanna
Birth Network, meets every other
month. Call [phone].

South Carolina

Florence: Northeastern South Carolina
Doula Group, meets every six weeks.
Call Uta Mattox at [phone].

Texas

Austin: Heart of Texas Doulas, meets
bimonthly on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Call Lanell Coultas at [phone].

Utah

Salt Lake City: Utah Doula
Association, twice-yearly conferences
and monthly gatherings. Call (888)
838-1456.

West Virginia

Hurricane: Doula Network of West
Virginia, meets monthly. Call (866)
55DOULA.

Wisconsin

Milwaukee: C.A.R.E. Network
(Childbirth Assistants, Resources and
Education), meets monthly. Call (414)
529-3667.

Racine: Birth Partners, meets bimonthly.
Call Annmarie Klyzub Kalmar at (262)
634-2892.

Ontario, Canada

London: The Doula Study/Networking
Group, meets the third Sunday of
every other month. Call Jill Ritchie at
[phone].