Heartbeat Academy

Video can be one of the most powerful tools to connect with your community. Learn how to take your movie making skills to the next level and engage your audience with a compelling client movie.

In this session. Heartbeat Media Specialist Lauren Bell will share tips, tricks and pointers that you can use to ensure your next client movie will create appreciation, interest, and support for the work done by your pregnancy help organization.

Photography and media can be used for clients as well as staff to give a clear picture of your Pregnancy Help Organization and tell stories that inspire. Join us for valuable tips and tricks on everything from using a cellphone camera to professional lighting that will help you capture and tell client stories that inspire the community you serve as well as your supporters. - Presented by Laurie Hughes

A call comes in—It’s a local reporter, and she wants to know if your center gives out birth control. No? Well, don’t you receive funding through the state? Why should you be receiving a dime from the city council when you won’t even refer for abortions?

Questions like these can feel intimidating, but there’s a situation you should dread even more: radio silence. Good press relations is both proactive and reactive, and a well-written press release is an essential component to building credibility in your community to expand your reach to the woman near you who needs it most. Consider these questions and more—including who should be answering questions at your organization in the first place—with Heartbeat International’s former Director of Communications Jay Hobbs.

When you have a good relationship with some in the media, you have a better chance of getting your story out there. Cultivating these relationships in a respectful and effective way is a great strategy pregnancy help organizations can implement right away. In this session not only will you learn how to overcome your fears of the media, but also how to use media power for the good of your organization by cultivating positive media connections and connecting with gatekeepers that will help get your story in the right hands.

We know that God calls each of us to sexual purity, but how can we ensure this standard is maintained within the walls of our own ministries?

In this recorded webinar, you will understanding that self-care is the foundation for resilience no matter what the walk of life. 

This teaching will provide the tools and information needed to become part of the Abortion Pill Rescue Network and to effectively assist women who have started chemical abortion and are experiencing regret. 

Presented by Christa Brown, Lisa Searle, Dr. George Delgado, and Dr. Robert Snyder.

 

We shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, but that's exactly what our clients do when they walk through the door.

Join Heartbeat consulant, Ducia Hamm, LAS for a discussion on what works, what to avoid, and how to make changes without breaking the budget!

 

The Commitment of Care and Competence serves as the ethical code of practice for pregnancy help organizations. As the moral compass that guides how we conduct ourselves at every level of the organization, how often do we think about what the Commitment of Care and Competence (CCC) means for our daily interactions, or even what it actually says? 

 This course will not only cover what the CCC says and what it means, but will go through how it is meant to influence the work being done daily in your Pregnancy Help Organization. This course is approximately one (1) hour and includes a quiz. Both the training and quiz must be completed to earn a completion certificate.

Because Heartbeat views this information as vital for all Pregnancy Help staff, this course is complimentary for Heartbeat Affiliates.

 

This video-based training is for new volunteers, trainers of new volunteers, and will be a refresher for experienced client services staff. 

 

While these uncertain times come with a level of anxiety and fear related to the health of ourselves and loved ones as well as our economic capabilities. As in the book of Habakkuk, we can move from fear to faith, knowing that the three promises God gave Habakkuk can provide us with an anchor in the midst of our crisis as well. 

Presented by Pastor Andy Merritt and Jor-El Godsey

 

To inform about the effect of artificial reproductive techniques (ART), in terms of human embryos produced and destroyed and health problems for the mother and the babies (if born). To present a step-by-step medical flow-chart for diagnosis and treatment of couple infertility.

Presented by Dr. Giuseppe Grande, MD

Whether you are a home hoping to encourage interaction in your living room, or a center hoping to put clients at ease in the counseling room, this training will give you the tools you need to intentionally structure and design the rooms of your space to support the services offered.