Registration: https://www.birthisjustthebeginning.com
Training Dates and Times:
May 13-15, 2026 Wed, Thurs, Fri 11:00am EDT 5:30pm EDT
Cost:
$565 includes CAPPA Childbirth Educator Training manual
include 1 year of CAPPA membership
Want to be inspired and empowered to begin or enhance your perinatal career? Train with the Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association, an international certification organization for Doulas, Childbirth Educators and Lactation Educators. CAPPA trainings are designed to educate and equip the contemporary perinatal professional for a successful career in a fun, supportive and collaborative environment. Trainings are evidence based and comprehensive, and are designed to appeal to all learning styles. Students will enjoy engaging and interactive instruction, with practical and real-world scenarios. CAPPA instructors have in depth knowledge and follow standardized curriculums to ensure the highest quality training and most comprehensive perinatal education for CAPPA certification programs. As one of the first and most comprehensive perinatal organizations in the world, CAPPA is respected for its longevity, stability, and its commitment to excellence in both education and unsurpassed student and member support.
The CAPPA 18 Hour Childbirth Educator Training
Ready to become more proficient when offering childbirth education? Take the first step towards becoming a Certified Childbirth Educator with CAPPA. This eighteen-hour training meets the first requirement of your CCCE program and prepares you to work through the steps for certification. This course is designed to improve the skill base, knowledge and perspectives on childbirth for perinatal professionals.
Offering 18 CAPPA Contact Hours.
This course satisfies the following:
*The CAPPA Childbirth Educator certification steps for training attendance. Ideal for anyone wanting to become a Certified Childbirth Educator, CCCE.
Includes:
The CAPPA 18 Hour Childbirth Educator Training Class includes the CAPPA Childbirth Education Manual and resources to enhance your practice.
The training covers the following topics:
· Goals/Roles of the Childbirth Educator
· Teaching Adult Learners
· Developing an Engaging Curriculum
· Innovative Teaching Activities
· Stages of Labor
· Labor Support Techniques
· Interventions and Cesarean Births
· Making Decisions and Communication
· And much more!
Why Certify as a CCCE?
Certified Childbirth Educators (CCCEs) provide evidence based information to the community, families and professionals. Childbirth Educators can be found working in a variety of settings to offer their services to families. Families can find them working as public health educators, hospital/community educators, in care providers’ offices and in private practice as educators.
CAPPA Childbirth Educators are non-clinical professionals. CAPPA Childbirth Educators do not dispense medical advice, diagnose medical conditions, or prescribe/administer medications or treatments of any kind. Educators do not offer information that directs families to act against medical advice.
Whether your goal is to begin a new career, enhance your current position, or for your own enrichment, this two-day training will start you off in the right direction!
CAPPA Childbirth Educator Trainer – Gwynne Knap, BA, CCCE, CLD, CPD
Gwynne Knap has been a CAPPA certified childbirth educator since 2009, teaching hundreds of birthing persons and their partners how to achieve a low-intervention birthing experience. Originally, her classes were conducted under the Confident Childbirth of Atlanta brand and then later, under the Kopa Birth – Classes for Natural Birth in the Hospital. Gwynne graduated from Georgia State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish/International Business focus. Then after 20+ years in the field of importing and exporting architectural materials and traveling worldwide to trade shows, she began her passion project (at the age of 50) as a perinatal professional. First certified as a labor doula and then a postpartum doula, she combined all three disciplines, to support families with education during pregnancy, then supporting labor doula clients through the childbirth experience and concluding with in-home postpartum support. Gwynne Knap has also taught childbirth classes through Dekalb Medical Center as well as with Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies of Georgia. In 2014, Gwynne Knap joined the CAPPA Childbirth Educator Faculty to conduct the 18-hour CAPPA Childbirth Educator Training Course. Gwynne has taught the CCCE certification training classes to many nurses and birth doulas seeking CAPPA Childbirth Educator certification, including several from Wellstar Health Systems. Gwynne continues to conduct virtual or in-person CCCE Training events to serve perinatal professionals as well as hospital systems and community health programs across the US and Canada. Gwynne Knap also serves as a CAPPA Labor Doula and a CAPPA Postpartum Faculty Trainer.
Details of Refund Policy:
Training fees are non-refundable. Training fees may be transferred to a future CCCE training event taught by Gwynne Knap, CCCE Faculty Trainer with a $75 transfer fee.