Sufficient Grace Ministries provides support for families facing a life-limiting diagnosis in pregnancy as well as those enduring miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal, or infant loss. We are in need of doulas or support companions to provide support, offer comfort and hope, and help families celebrate the lives of their precious babies.

This training equips nurses, chaplains, social workers, physicians, doulas, volunteers, and caregivers to implement a more comprehensive family-centered approach to caring for families facing a perinatal loss or life-limiting diagnosis in pregnancy with the following learner results.

• Recognize the bereaved parent’s perspective and the need for options and resources.

• Describe the caregiver’s responsibility in helping to create a lasting, tangible memory for bereaved parents experiencing
perinatal loss.

• Apply companioning methods when forming a comprehensive family-centered perinatal loss support program in the hospital setting and
beyond.

• Prepare a collaborative, multi-faceted palliative care team plan for perinatal hospice patients.

The Virtual Perinatal Loss Support Training offers multiple registration options to participants including: (Descriptions below)

• Introduction to Perinatal Loss Support for Birth Professionals (4 hr)
• Perinatal Loss Support Companioning Method (16 hr)
• Perinatal Loss Support Companion/Doula Certification (40 hr) (Both certifications include 16 hr. faculty-directed training and 24 hr. independent study - Doula Certification also includes Labor Support)

Discounted group rates available for bereavement organizations and hospitals.
Contact sufficientgraceministries@gmail.com for more details.

Prior to the training you will a receive an informational packet including details about the independednt study portion of the training (required for Doula Certification), the schedule, online meeting links, and videos that can be viewed prior to the virtual gathering.

When registering, there are several payment options. If you would like to apply for the scholarship rate, please email a reason the discount is needed, a bit about your background, and your heart and plans for serving families to sufficientgraceministries@gmail.com.

Introduction to Perinatal Loss Support for Birth Professionals (4 contact hours)

Great for Birth Professionals or others interested in learning more about this program. The training includes an introduction to the companioning method, perinatal hospice support, and parent-centered bereavement support as well as an overview for using the SGM Perinatal Loss Support Program.

Perinatal Loss Support Companioning Method (16 contact hours)

Training focuses on bereavement support, companioning families, establishing a perinatal loss program, perinatal hospice, labor support (optional), and demonstrating/role play support for a family experiencing perinatal loss through labor and beyond. (See Purpose & Objectives above)

Training includes:

• 16 nursing contact hours of Perinatal Loss Training 
• SGM Perinatal Loss Support Training Manual
• Access to videos, and telephone/online support from trained SGM Perinatal Loss Support professionals
  
  

Perinatal Loss Support Companion/Doula Certification (40 contact hours)

(16 hr. faculty-directed workshop & 24 hr. independent study)

Training focuses on bereavement support, establishing a perinatal loss program, labor support (for Doula Certification), and demonstrating/role play support for a family experiencing perinatal loss through labor and beyond. Completion of an independent study module is also required.

Training includes:

• Full 40 nursing contact hours of Perinatal Loss Training
• Independent Study Module
• SGM Perinatal Loss Support Training Manual
• Access to videos, and telephone/online support from trained SGM Perinatal Loss Support professionals

SGM Perinatal Loss Support Training" (ONA #2020-0000000653) has received ONA approval for 4, 16 and 40.0 contact hour(s). The Ohio Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91)

CEU's also available for chaplains. 

Please call Kelly Gerken at 419-278-7640 for more information about contact hours.

Select your relationship with SGM and then choose the desired training option.

• Prices are linked to the training options; therefore, the relationship will show "free" until the desired training option is chosen.
• See Training Options above for training descriptions.

Please note that all payments are non-refundable. Training fees are used to cover training costs and support bereaved parents through outreach programs.

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• Prior to submitting this registration, confirm that you have chosen your relationship with SGM and used ALL of the dropdown options associated with that relationship to select desired training details.
• If you have not yet applied to be an SGM Volunteer or Affiliate, please use the links at the top of the registration section to apply.