Navigator Training & Certification
Become a certified Build Your Nest Postpartum Navigator.
What Is Covered In This Training?
Learn how help parents plan for the postpartum time and navigate their way through it.
The training that takes each participant from concept and vision, through the process of actualizing the work in their community.
About the Training
The training includes:
7 modules that include pre-recorded classes, the slide decks, homework, and resources.
a navigator’s manual
optional comprehensive certification process
This training is for people who want to serve their communities as postpartum navigators or who simply want to enhance their current work with families. (doulas, midwives, social workers etc.)
Postpartum navigators fill a huge gap in our maternal healthcare systems. This training supports you in adapting this work to your community and to your life.
Build Your Nest Postpartum Navigators recognize that maternal health is multifaceted and supported by medical, social, and cultural solutions. We support parents by helping them to create a postpartum plan and in accessing important resources throughout the fourth trimester.
This work can be a stand-alone practice or it can be layered with other care that you offer, such as doula work, postpartum care, or midwifery.
Benefits Of This Training?
Benefits of offering a postpartum navigator package:
• Have a service to offer that is not on call.
• Have a service to offer that doesn’t require in person contact.
• Postpartum planning consults will help improve access / market your other services
• Offering this service gives language, value, and compensation for ongoing support.
• Navigation support helps build relationship with families you are serving in other ways (birth support etc).
Benefits of offering community events (classes, groups etc):
• Have a service to offer that is not on call.
• Have a service to offer that doesn’t require in person contact.
• Events will help improve access / market other services.
• Community involvement can build relationships with other care providers.
• Navigation support helps build relationship with families you are serving in other ways (birth support etc).
Benefits of becoming certified:
• Guided certification process with support through creation and implementation of offerings. • Listing on the Build Your Nest website + use of the certified navigator logo.
• Validation of the concept and term.
• Clatsop County: Promotion of the concept and Navigators.
• Non-locals: Promotional materials to share in your communities. • Community support of other navigators.
Commonly Asked Questions:
Hopefully, these will answer some of the questions you might have. Feel free to reach out (email link) if there is anything else I can answer for you!
Q. I'm interested in this training, but don't want to get certified or add a new service to my care, how will it benefit me?
A. You will be given tools that you can integrate into your current care, whether you are a birth or postpartum professional.
Q. I am a postpartum doula, how is this work different?
A. The navigator support is not the in person and practical care that a postpartum doula offers. The navigator support begins during pregnancy and extends through the third month postpartum. Postpartum doula care can fit within the navigator care.
Q. I’m not a postpartum doula, how do I not seem like I am in competition or stepping on toes?
A. This role is different. You can reach out to postpartum doulas and show that you are ready to refer clients to them. It might be that your client is struggling, so you refer a few postpartum doulas to them. That care lasts, say three weeks, and then you continue checking in with them, supporting them through the third month. Encouraging the care of a postpartum doula becomes part of your care.
Q. I am a mother of small children and looking to have an offering that works within my day-to-day life as a parent, would navigator work fit into my life?
A. It may! One of the advantages of this model of care is that it can be all through your phone and can be arranged into your life as works best for you. You don't need to be on call, you don't need to have an office space.
Workbook Sale Section
A quick message about purchasing The Workbook. “If you haven’t yet, be sure to grab a copy of The Workbook as it is the first step on the journey to becoming a Certified Build Your Nest Navigator!”