This curated collection of trainings explores trauma-informed care across the full continuum of pregnancy and family support. They are designed to equip staff, volunteers, nurses, and caregivers with the knowledge, language, and practical skills needed to respond with confidence, compassion, and sensitivity in moments that matter most.
Evidence-Based Trauma-Informed Training
These on-demand trainings help pregnancy help organizations foster environments of safety, trust, and healing—empowering caregivers to meet women and families where they are, reduce re-traumatization, and walk alongside them toward healing and hope. Two trainings below offer CEUs and draw from current research, clinical best practices, and real-world scenarios to ensure learning translates directly into client care.
On-Demand
Each training is self-led, so you can watch them on your schedule.
100% Online
Complete each training from any device, anywhere in the world.
Discount Eligible
Heartbeat affiliates receive 20% off! Click the learn more button to see your discounted price.
Product Code 1279
Trauma-Informed Care for Pregnancy Help Organizations
This course is designed to equip staff and volunteers in pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, and related life-affirming ministries with practical tools for supporting women who have experienced trauma. The training explores how trauma, especially adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), can influence pregnancy, parenting, and overall well-being, while offering biblically grounded strategies for fostering healing and resilience. Students will learn the key principles of trauma-informed care as defined by SAMHSA, how trauma impacts brain development, stress response systems, pregnancy outcomes, and maternal-child bonding. Practical applications are reinforced through scenario-based learning and reflection questions. This course is ideal for individuals working in pregnancy help organizations who want to increase their effectiveness in walking alongside women with trauma histories. It is particularly helpful for caregivers seeking both evidence-based knowledge and faith-rooted approaches to serve with compassion.
$54.95
Product Code 1138
Bad News Delivery by the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care
Gain practical tools and language that help you respond with confidence and compassion when patients face reproductive loss. Learn how you can transform moments of profound grief into opportunities for healing, support, and compassionate care.
Objectives:
- Distinguish communication approaches that facilitate emotional healing rather than intensify emotional pain in those enduring a miscarriage. - Utilize the learned communicative strategies that help to counteract the emotional trauma that often accompanies a miscarriage.
$30.00
1
CEU
Product Code 975
Prenatal Diagnosis and NICU Trauma: Educating the Medical Community About Its 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 are critical. The trauma reverberates through the entire family system, oftentimes with long-lasting and irreversible effects.
$14.95
1.25
CEU
Product Code 99
Women's Mental Health After Abortion
A large and growing body of research using good methodology shows that abortion places women at increased risk of mental health problems. This workshop will give attendees/nurses an overview of what current research is showing, from PTSD and substance abuse to sexual dysfunction and relationship problems.
Objectives:
- Identify risk factors for post-abortion mental health problems - Review PTSD diagnostic criteria and symptoms in post-abortive clients - Summarize research on post-abortion PTSD and related client/partner impacts - Outline basic nursing interventions and referral resources for post-abortive care
$29.95
Product Code 805
Healing from Medication Abortion Trauma
Join Kylee Heap, COO of Support After Abortion, and Melissa Ohden, Founder and Director of Abortion Survivors Network, for a research-focused discussion of the impact of medication abortion on women - after completed abortions and after failed/stopped/reversed abortions, and how to meet their needs for healing. They will apply research findings to client care, language nuances, programming options, and marketing tips for concrete action steps in providing compassionate care, reducing barriers, and meeting people where they are to help them move past disenfranchised grief to find hope and healing.
$9.95
Product Code 412
Housing: De-Escalation Strategies
In this webinar, Suzanne walks us through practical applications for de-escalation strategies in the trauma-informed home. Attendees will learn which components are needed for a resident to return to a place of “calm” in the unique environment of maternity housing.
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.
On-Demand
Each training is self-led, so you can watch them on your schedule.
100% Online
Complete each training from any device, anywhere in the world.
Discount Eligible
Heartbeat affiliates receive 20% off! Click the learn more button to see your discounted price.
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.
Academy Suite of On-Demand Courses on Reproductive Grief Care
We offer six on-demand courses for pregnancy help professionals to equip your team with the essential skills and knowledge to provide compassionate, evidence-based care for clients experiencing reproductive loss.
In Partnership with
A Collaboration for Powerful Grief Care Training
Our collaboration with the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care brings expert training right to your organization through Heartbeat Academy.
On-Demand
Each course is self-led, so you can take them on your schedule.
100% Online
Complete each course from any device, anywhere in the world.
Discount Eligible
Heartbeat affiliates receive 20% off! Click the learn more button to see your discounted price.
Product Code 1138
Bad News Delivery
Gain practical tools and language that help you respond with confidence and compassion when patients face reproductive loss. Learn how you can transform moments of profound grief into opportunities for healing, support, and compassionate care.
$30
1
CEU
Product Code 1134
Grieving Well
To better assist our clients and patients and to protect against vicarious trauma, it is helpful to gain a deeper understanding of our own grief history. This course offers self-guided reflections and exercises that will broaden our appreciation of the uniqueness of our own and other’s grief journey. Obstacles to grieving, grieving styles, practical ways to memorialize loss, and the ability to grow through loss are also covered as we explore how to grieve well.
$30
Certificate Eligible
Product Code 1251
Individual Certificate: Reproductive Grief Care
Reproductive Grief Care Certificate for Individuals is for those committed to offering the highest standard of compassionate care to those impacted by reproductive loss. A certificate is awarded to those who complete the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care specialized track of 8 online courses. After completion of these courses, individuals will have a foundational proficiency in reproductive grief care, be able to serve as an example of compassionate care, and be a resource for those in their community who have been touched by reproductive loss.
$495
1
CEU
Product Code 1135
Invigorating Compassion
Compassion fatigue and burnout often deprive healthcare providers of altruistic motivations and attributes that initially attracted them to caregiving. Aside from the recommendations for a healthier lifestyle, little has been offered to assist those in caring occupations to nurture their empathetic resiliency and enduring passion for helping others in need. This course helps care providers reclaim their compassionate zeal by uncovering factors that can derail empathetic caregiving; it also provides practical applications that are beneficial both personally and professionally.
$30
1
CEU
Product Code 1137
Reproductive Grief Care for Health Professionals
Reproductive loss, including miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, and infertility, can be devastating, and healthcare professionals are often at the front lines of responding to those experiencing reproductive grief. Reproductive Grief Care for Healthcare Professionals is an introduction to standards of grief care for physicians, nurses, and other medical providers. This course equips learners to recognize the impact of reproductive loss, respond effectively both individually and organizationally, and help patients begin to cope with their loss experiences. Participants will learn a variety of effective communication strategies, cultural and spiritual competency skills, and options for memorialization to positively impact the grief trajectory for the bereaved.
$60
Upcoming Live Class
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