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Mom Prom
Mom Prom was created as a special evening to celebrate YOU because so often women spend their days nurturing everyone else. You deserve a night where you feel beautiful, appreciated, seen, and celebrated.
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Come enjoy an evening filled with music, dancing, laughter, friendship, self-care, and connection with other amazing women in our community. Dress up if you want or not. This night is about joy, confidence, and making memories together.
Cash bar. Silent auction. FREE CHAIR MASSAGE!
A fun girls’ night out you truly deserve.
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is working to develop Medicaid reimbursement for doula care. You can view the proposal from MT DPHHS here. There’s an opportunity to provide public comment to help inform what the Medicaid benefit will include. Public comment must be submitted to dphhscomments@mt.gov by the end of Thursday, July 30th.
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In collaboration with Montana Doulas and Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, we have developed recommendations that we will be submitting to DPHHS. Please read the document and send public comment to DPHHS encouraging them to support our recommendations.
The Montana Doula Collaborative serves as a statewide organization supporting all perinatal doulas, including but not limited to Indigenous Birthworkers and Recovery Doulas. We provide support and resources for all doulas as well as publicly educate and advocate for the benefits of doula care.
VISION
Every doula working in Montana will have the support and resources to succeed in a sustainable career.
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Every family in Montana will have access to compassionate and competent perinatal doula care, allowing them to feel supported, empowered and safe. This will result in improved health outcomes and equity for all parents and babies.
GOALS & VALUES
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The primary goal of this group is to increase access to doula support for all populations that ordinarily wouldn’t be able to afford such care.
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Ensure doulas will be adequately reimbursed for the care they provide.
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Promote the profession of doulas in Montana through education and awareness to medical institutions, care providers and the public.
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Provide educational, professional and collaborative opportunities for Montana doulas.
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Create a central registry for the public to find doulas in their area of Montana.
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Provide support for doulas navigating the billing and reimbursement process.
WHAT IS A PERINATAL DOULA?
"Doulas are trained perinatal care workers whose role draws on long traditions of community support to individuals and families before, during, and after birth. Doulas work directly for pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people. They provide comprehensive, non-clinical, one-on-one care that meets emotional, physical, social, advocacy, and informational needs. Doula care is preventive care that is proven to significantly improve health outcomes for birthing people and families."
Birth doulas assist families to prepare for and carry out their hopes for birth. They provide emotional support and physical comfort measures throughout the labor, birth and first few hours postpartum.
Indigenous doulas play an especially important role in aiding families as they provide education on peripartum concerns as well as supporting traditional practices and ceremony.
Postpartum Doulas serve families in the postpartum weeks by providing emotional and practical support during the transitional time of the fourth trimester.
Peer recovery doulas utilize their own life experience to provide support to birthing persons and families in the perinatal period with substance use and/or mental health challenges.
CODE OF ETHICS & SCOPE OF PRACTICE
Our members agree to abide by our Code of Ethics and Scope of Practice.