NYC Doula Institute
Are you ready to love what you do and do what you love?
Do you want to know more about pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond?
Do you want to be there for people as their hearts and their families grow?
Join us as we share everything we know about being doulas in NYC.
The births. The hospitals. The families. The partners. The nurses. The providers. The middle-of-the-night phone calls. The long labors. The fast births. The hard days and the really, really beautiful ones.
We can’t wait to show you what we know.
2025
The NYC Doula Institute is New York City's comprehensive training program for doulas working within the unique landscape of birth in NYC.
Founded by Kerri Evers, a birth doula with more than 20 years of experience in New York City hospitals, the NYC Doula Institute is built on decades of work inside NYC birth spaces. Kerri was instrumental in establishing one of the city's first hospital-based doula programs, bringing years of experience working within New York City's hospital systems to the foundation of the Institute.
Kerri's longstanding relationships with OBs, midwives, nurses, and hospital care teams have shaped the foundation of the program and its approach to doula education.
Co-taught by Kerri and a Certified Nurse-Midwife, the NYC Doula Institute trains doulas in pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum support, hospital systems, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the realities of professional doula work in New York City.
The curriculum is evidence-based, continually evolving, and grounded in real birth experience. Students are taught both the clinical context surrounding birth and the role of the doula within it — how to support families, understand the birth space, communicate within a care team, and maintain the professional standards required for this work.
Training also includes the business of doula care, sustainable practice, on-call life, professional relationships, and the mental and emotional demands of a long-term career in birth work.
Graduates of the NYC Doula Institute are known as Rosies.
Rosies are part of an ongoing professional community built around mentorship, case consultation, continued education, and referrals.
The Rosie Standard is simple: skilled doulas, deeply trained, professionally supported, and prepared for the realities of birth work in New York City.
Because the best support for birthing families begins with doulas who are supported themselves.