Academy Suite of On-Demand Training on Prenatal Diagnosis Care
This collection of prenatal and perinatal support trainings equips pregnancy help staff and volunteers to compassionately serve families facing difficult prenatal diagnoses and unexpected outcomes. Covering informed consent, genetic counseling, NICU trauma, and hospice ethics, they offer life-affirming tools that foster understanding, empathy, and hope.
Life-Affirming Care for Every Prenatal Journey
Created by Heartbeat International in collaboration with Option Line, PrenatalDiagnosis.org brings together organizations, medical professionals, and advocates to equip and empower those walking with women and families facing a difficult prenatal diagnosis. It serves as a vital resource for promoting life-affirming, compassionate care and education during some of the most challenging moments of pregnancy.
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Each training is self-led, so you can watch them on your schedule.
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1
CEU
Product Code 1234
Supporting Parents with a Prenatal Diagnosis
Prenatal screening is offered to almost every pregnant woman, regardless of risk factors. Although you may not be the clinician delivering prenatal screening results, you still have the opportunity to speak life into whatever situation your client finds themselves in after receiving a prenatal diagnosis. You have the opportunity to provide support and information at that critical moment that can direct parents toward vital support and services. Join us to learn more about prenatal screening, prenatal diagnosis, challenges a client may experience with a prenatal diagnosis, and referrals available for clients who have received a prenatal diagnosis.
$35.94
Product Code 709
Informed Consent Following a Prenatal Diagnosis
Parents are increasingly offered prenatal tests to screen for various prenatal conditions and subsequently offered abortion following a positive result. Ethicists broadly agree Informed Consent is critical in making medical decisions, yet parents often are not presented with the information they need to make an informed decision following a positive test result, which all too often leads to abortion.
$14.95
1
CEU
Product Code 602
Unexpected Pregnancy Outcomes
Abnormal early ultrasound findings are now being used to justify elective abortions and so now, more than ever, it's important that prolife healthcare professionals be accurate in our understanding and communications about these conditions. Join us to learn more about ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage and molar pregnancies.
$12.95
1
CEU
Product Code 1273
The ABCs of NIPT: Understanding Genetic Counseling in Prenatal Care
Join Caroline Aragón, MS, CGC, for a practical webinar exploring the essentials of genetic counseling and prenatal screening. You'll gain a clear understanding of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), how it works, what the results mean, and the clinical and emotional challenges families may encounter. This session will offer valuable insights for anyone supporting parents through a prenatal diagnosis.
$12.95
Product Code 1071
When Perinatal Hospice Isn't Prolife
This workshop will introduce participants to the new national network of Parent Care Coordinators serving parents carrying to term following a prenatal diagnosis and the related first-of-its-kind prolife prenatal diagnosis website managed by Heartbeat International (prenataldiagnosis.org.) The limitations of perinatal hospice as a prolife response to prenatal diagnosis will be reviewed by way of published research.
$14.95
1
CEU
Product Code 975
Prenatal Diagnosis and NICU Trauma: Educating the Medical Community About It's Real Effects in the Family
Education and awareness of the impact of our words and actions around a prenatal diagnosis and the diagnosis as it continues into the NICU is critical. The trauma reverberates through the entire family system, oftentimes with long lasting and irreversible effects.
