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Bentonville Ignite adds doula training to health‑sciences strand
Summary
Bentonville School District’s Ignite program launched a high‑school doula training this spring in partnership with UAMS and local organizations; 11 students are enrolled in the new course, which district staff say aims to address high maternal and newborn morbidity in Arkansas and create career pathways for students.
At the Feb. 18 Bentonville School District Board of Education meeting, Ignite program staff described a newly launched doula training offered this school year for 11 eleventh‑ and twelfth‑grade students.
Ignite staff framed the doula training as an expansion of the program’s health sciences strand and presented partnerships and curriculum details to the board. “A doula is the very lowest level of support that we can give a mom before, during and after her pregnancy,” said Wendy Broughton, the district’s health sciences instructor, describing the role and how the class was developed after a maternal‑health roundtable in August.
The program is…
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