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title: "Credentials and Continuing Education"
url: https://papercranebirth.com/credentials-and-continuing-ed/
description: "Doulas never stop learning! When she's not giving doula support or teaching birth classes in Connecticut, here's what Vanessa is working on."
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# Credentials and Continuing Education

Childbirth Educator, Birth and Postpartum Doula

**CAPPA Certified Childbirth Educator** - *Certified 01/2018*

**Bebo Mia Maternal Support Practitioner (Doula)** - *Training Completed 06/2017, Certification in Progress*

**Rebozo Training with Gena Kirby**- *Certified 10/2018*

**Infant, Child, and Adult CPR**- *Certified 06/2018*

**Supporting Women with Perinatal Emotional Complications: Recognizing, Supporting, and Referring for Doulas** - *Completed 02/2019*

**Spinning Babies® Workshop with Lorenza Holt**- *Completed 05/2019*

## Volunteer Work

**Volunteer Doula** - Vidone Birth Center, Yale-New Haven St. Raphael campus

**Co-Facilitator, ABC Support Group of Southington, CT**- Postpartum Support Int’l CT Chapter

## Other Related Work

**Director, Scholarship Committee** - bebo mia, inc.

**Coordinator, Peer Support Program** - bebo mia, inc.

## Feeling Social?

Connect with me on [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/papercranebirth), [Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/papercranebirth), and visit my [DoulaMatch](https://doulamatch.net/profile/17823/vanessa-hawke) profile.