Registration for the 2025 Sands NZ & VCA Student Series is open - click here to register
Sands NZ & VCA invites students who will be working with bereaved whānau upon graduation to join us for the 2025 Student Series. This includes midwifery, nursing, psychology, medical, counselling and sonography students. And we also invite new graduate midwives in their mentorship year.
We will be offering 18 topics over 10 months in 2025. You will have access to online content and also be invited to join our monthly discussion webinars with bereaved whānau.
The 2025 Student Series will start on Monday 3rd February and end on Friday 28th November 2025.
Our topics are -
Grief and Baby Loss; Models of Care; Memory-Making When a Baby Dies; Baby Loss Legalities and Definitions; Self-Care; Caring for Māori Whānau; What Should I Say and Not Say?; Early Loss; Decision-Making Following an Unexpected Diagnosis; Perinatal Hospice; Ending a Wanted Pregnancy; Pregnancy and Parenting After Loss; When a Baby Dies in NICU; Rainbow Inclusive Care in Baby Loss; Fathers/Partners and Baby Loss; Perinatal Pathology; Loss in a Multiple Pregnancy; Informed Pregnancy.
The Student Series is free, thanks to the generosity of Sands NZ.
If you have any questions, please email me on [email protected] or you can register here