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The Professionals' Series course started on Monday 3rd June - there are still spaces if you wish to register. The June content has been released and totals 5.5 hours of learning, so it's not too late to catch up.
You can register here or email Vicki on [email protected]
You can register here or email Vicki on [email protected]
The 2024 Sands NZ & VCA Professionals' Series runs from June to September 2024.
"As professionals working with families during a time when they feel their most vulnerable, it's paramount that we know how to hold them tenderly, with our words, our presence, our support. This course gives you the tools you need to journey with those suffering loss in a way that offers light in a time of great darkness." (2023 participant)
The Professionals' Series offers four months of online learning about 16 different and important aspects of baby loss in Aotearoa NZ. (That's four months of active learning and then there's a further month to complete the content). It has been developed for anyone who interacts with or supports bereaved parents, families and whānau in a professional capacity.
The course is made up of 16 hours of online content and (optional) evening discussion webinars (two in June, one in July, One in August and two in September, alternating between hearing from bereaved parents and discussion and networking with other course participants). As well as the course content, I also offer additional content that is optional.
Dates - we'll start on Monday 3rd June (King's Birthday) and end on Friday 27th September 2024. Access to the course will close on Thursday 31st October 2024.
TOPICS:
June (4.5 hours)
July (4 hours)
August (3 hours)
September (4 hours)
PRICING
In 2024, we won't be offering month by month registration. The cost for the four months is $550.00 +GST ($632.50)
(The price in 2023 was considerably lower because it was subsidised by Sands NZ.)
"I can highly recommend this course to any health professional who supports bereaved parents and whānau as part of their role. As a [health professional in the baby loss space] I initially wasn't sure that I would learn much from this series, however every topic brought a new perspective and new learning that I hadn't previously came across or considered. Hearing the voices of bereaved parents through the webinars was hugely beneficial and helped to focus my practice more closely onto the parents' perspective and away from the clinical needs and day to day pressures of providing health care."
(2023 participant)
Please email [email protected] if you have any questions at all
2024 participants - link
"As professionals working with families during a time when they feel their most vulnerable, it's paramount that we know how to hold them tenderly, with our words, our presence, our support. This course gives you the tools you need to journey with those suffering loss in a way that offers light in a time of great darkness." (2023 participant)
The Professionals' Series offers four months of online learning about 16 different and important aspects of baby loss in Aotearoa NZ. (That's four months of active learning and then there's a further month to complete the content). It has been developed for anyone who interacts with or supports bereaved parents, families and whānau in a professional capacity.
The course is made up of 16 hours of online content and (optional) evening discussion webinars (two in June, one in July, One in August and two in September, alternating between hearing from bereaved parents and discussion and networking with other course participants). As well as the course content, I also offer additional content that is optional.
Dates - we'll start on Monday 3rd June (King's Birthday) and end on Friday 27th September 2024. Access to the course will close on Thursday 31st October 2024.
TOPICS:
June (4.5 hours)
- Baby Loss in Aotearoa NZ
- Self-Care for Professionals Working with Baby Loss
- Grief and Baby Loss
- Caring for Māori Whānau
July (4 hours)
- Models of Care
- What Should I Say and Not Say?
- Tender Conversations (talking about challenging topics)
- Memory-Making When a Baby Dies
August (3 hours)
- Early Loss
- Decision Making Following an Unexpected Diagnosis
- Perinatal Hospice
- Ending a Wanted Pregnancy
September (4 hours)
- Rainbow Inclusive Perinatal Bereavement Care;
- Fathers and Baby Loss
- When a Baby Dies in NICU
- Pregnancy and Parenting After Loss
PRICING
In 2024, we won't be offering month by month registration. The cost for the four months is $550.00 +GST ($632.50)
(The price in 2023 was considerably lower because it was subsidised by Sands NZ.)
"I can highly recommend this course to any health professional who supports bereaved parents and whānau as part of their role. As a [health professional in the baby loss space] I initially wasn't sure that I would learn much from this series, however every topic brought a new perspective and new learning that I hadn't previously came across or considered. Hearing the voices of bereaved parents through the webinars was hugely beneficial and helped to focus my practice more closely onto the parents' perspective and away from the clinical needs and day to day pressures of providing health care."
(2023 participant)
Please email [email protected] if you have any questions at all
2024 participants - link
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- home
- about
- vca online learning
- Informed Pregnancy
- resources for bereaved whānau
- baby loss research
- other learning providers
- holding on & letting go
- Whetūrangitia
- rainbow communities and baby loss
- the call for change
- baby loss directory
- baby loss resources
- podcasts
- conferences
- articles (blog)
- connect
- Be a Better Treaty Partner