Equipping families. Honoring birth. Serving with purpose.

Prepare to teach, encourage, and equip families for pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum season through a Christ-centered, evidence-informed approach to birth education.

Our Faith-Based Childbirth Educator Certification Academy combines foundational knowledge, practical teaching skills, physiological birth education, and business training to help you confidently serve families in your community.

Whether you are answering a long-standing calling, beginning a new career, or expanding your existing birth-related practice, this program will help you develop the knowledge and tools to teach with compassion, confidence, and integrity.

Learn with purpose. Teach with confidence. Serve families with heart.

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Welcome to Hosanna

Is this program for you?

This certification is designed for both aspiring childbirth educators and experienced professionals who want to strengthen their teaching skills and build a faith-centered approach to birth education.

You may be a:

Aspiring childbirth educator exploring a new vocation.
Birth doula who wants to expand into childbirth education.
Midwife, nurse, lactation professional, or other birth professional seeking additional educational tools within your professional scope.
Christian ministry leader or community advocate who wants to equip families with reliable birth education.
Experienced educator ready to refine your curriculum, teaching methods, or business.

You do not need to have years of experience to begin. You do need a willingness to learn, serve families respectfully, and uphold the academy’s educational and ethical standards.

What you will learn

Our curriculum brings together birth physiology, family preparation, Christian values, evidence-informed education, and practical business skills.

Explore the role of the childbirth educator, Christian service, professional ethics, informed choice, and respectful family-centered teaching.
Understand the relationship between the brain, stress, hormones, environment, and the experience of labor.
Study the progression of labor and birth, the body's natural processes, comfort strategies, and the importance of individualized support.
Explore prenatal development, family transitions, emotional wellbeing, and the psychological dimensions of pregnancy and birth.
Learn to teach breathing and relaxation options, movement, positioning, partner support, and other nonclinical comfort strategies.
Help families prepare for feeding, early newborn care, postpartum recovery, and the transition into family life.

Integrate your faith into your professional practice with compassion, humility, respect, and a commitment to serving families without shame or coercion.
Explore topics such as red-light therapy and homeopathy through an evidence-informed lens, including limitations, safety considerations, and appropriate referrals.
Learn to recognize barriers to care and develop practical approaches to community-based education, resource navigation, and accessible teaching.
Build your service offerings, pricing strategy, marketing plan, referral network, and professional brand.
Explore tools and resources that can support education, communication, and business operations, including relevant birth-support platforms and apps.
Bring your learning together through a teaching demonstration, portfolio, and practical launch plan.

This is a curriculum overview. The complete lesson sequence, learning materials, and assessments are provided to enrolled students.

Your Certification Pathway

One year to complete your training

You will have 12 months from enrollment to complete the required online coursework and attend the required two-day workshop.

The program combines independent study with hands-on learning so you can build your knowledge while practicing the skills needed to teach families effectively.

Step 1 — Complete your online coursework

Work through the self-paced curriculum, lesson activities, knowledge checks, and assignments within your one-year completion window.

Step 2 — Attend the two-day intensive workshop

Participate in the required workshop, offered in person or live virtually according to the academy’s published schedule and availability.

Step 3 — Demonstrate your competency

Complete the required knowledge assessment, teaching demonstration, portfolio, and practical learning activities.

Step 4 — Complete certification review

Meet the academy’s academic, professional, ethical, and safety requirements to earn the independent organizational certification.

Frequently asked questions

No. The program is designed for beginners as well as experienced birth professionals. All students must meet the same published certification standards.
You have one year from enrollment to complete the online coursework and attend the required two-day workshop.
Yes. Workshop attendance is a required part of the certification pathway. Check the current schedule for available in-person and live-virtual options.
The coursework is self-paced online, but certification also requires attendance at the two-day workshop. Depending on the published schedule, the workshop may be offered in person or live virtually.
Yes. Business foundations, marketing, professional partnerships, and practice development are included in the curriculum.
No. This is an independent organizational certification in childbirth education. It does not authorize clinical practice or replace any professional license required by law.
The one-year deadline and any extension or re-enrollment policy will be stated in your enrollment agreement. Please review these terms before registering.