Overview of the Great Starts Workshop

The Great Starts workshop is a basic teacher education program: a four-day workshop designed to lay the foundation for providing education about the perinatal period. Parent Trust for Washington Children's Great Starts' program is a recognized leader in childbirth education, with a half century of experience.

The workshop is designed for nurses, midwives, labor support doulas, physical therapists, maternal-child health care professionals, and anyone with a solid working knowledge of the birth process who would like to learn how to effectively share that knowledge with expectant families.

The Purpose of the Workshop

The purpose of the Great Starts Basic Teacher Education Workshop is to increase your knowledge and confidence so you feel prepared to begin teaching birth preparation and parenting classes.

We offer a training which combines all the best techniques from a wide variety of childbirth education methods with current, evidence-based information on maternity care practices, and concrete tools for how to present the information in an engaging, memorable way.

 

Additional Information

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