Heartbeat International Academy offers life-affirming leaders, staff members, volunteers, and supporters access to pregnancy help training through various educational formats tailored to the needs of pregnancy help professionals. Webinars provide on-demand training accessible anytime and anywhere with an internet connection, featuring a growing selection of programs at cost-effective prices. Online courses offer customizable options for group instruction or self-paced study, available 24/7 with dynamic, multi-media activities and progress-tracking features. Additionally, Heartbeat Academy hosts live virtual classes each quarter, taught by Heartbeat faculty members. These classes, varying in topic and length, provide in-depth training designed to enhance your expertise over a few weeks.
Learn the difference between a webinar, course, and live class. ▼
Plus, the Academy offers an online Store with a library of previously recorded training and in-depth Manuals.
Why Academy? ▼
Essentially, with Academy, we hope to offer a one-stop shop where pregnancy help leaders can access sector-specific training that will help them and their organizations continue to serve their clients and communities with excellence. We recognize the difficulty of trying to research where to go get training on raising funds, leading organizations, and serving clients, while simultaneously doing all of those things so our goal is to come alongside you to make it a bit easier. With our new learning plans feature, it's even easier to identify what you need to know about any given topic and locate those trainings and resources that you need to raise funds, lead your organization, serve clients, etc.
Plus, Affiliates receive 20% off in the Academy! Click here to learn more.
What's in the Academy? ▼
It doesn't take much effort in today's age to find a piece of information or training video online, but what sets Academy apart is our training goes beyond social work, Christian counseling, and nursing education, instead offering training and information through a Christian worldview specific to our pregnancy help community. With the expertise that we tap into through our faculty, we're able to provide sector-specific training which means we're not just training nurses in the physics and technical stuff on ultrasound, but training nurses to perform ultrasound in a pregnancy help organization as part of the process of building a relationship with that client. Not just the latest information on chemical abortion, but how best to respond to clients in this shortened window of opportunity. Now with our learning plan feature added in, even if you don't know where to start, and don't know what you don't know you have a built-in guidance system of sorts to help make sure you find the right training for you.
Where does training happen? ▼
The short answer is anywhere and everywhere! When Heartbeat Academy was first launched, we focused on creating online coursework and a virtual learning space; that was what we were missing! Since 2020, we've brought those virtual and in-person worlds together so that now by completing the surveys offered onsite you can receive credit for training you're doing in person with Heartbeat as well as credit for those digital and online training.
How to use the Academy? ▼
With each webinar in the Heartbeat Academy, we now include an affiliate bonus registration for another member of your staff!
Each registration gives you access to the live presentation for yourself AND access for 1 additional person from your affiliated organization to access the recording through Heartbeat Academy! That recording access includes all the benefits of the webinar, including any CEUs offered.
How? Just register for yourself, and when the recording becomes available, you'll have the opportunity to enroll your additional staff member. That's one more benefit of being a Heartbeat International affiliate!
Ultrasound Image Review: Spring 2026
Next review is Tuesday, June 2nd at 12 pm ET
Join us once a month for a live image review, discussion, and case study. Click the button below for more!
4 Tools for Critical Incident Stress Management
Wednesday, June 10th at 12 pm ET
Do you desire to provide excellent care that includes exploring matters of faith, heart values and even biblical promises where appropriate? As a leader of a pregnancy center you are a crisis intervention specialist who can do this. Attend this webinar and learn 4 lessons that will help you and your team identify as specialists within the field of crisis intervention.
Value-Driven Leadership: Kingdom Values = Kingdom Impact
Wednesday, June 17th at 12 pm ET
Pregnancy Help leaders are facing unprecedented pressure to protect mission integrity while leading teams through spiritual, cultural, and organizational challenges. Value-Driven Leadership: Kingdom Values = Kingdom Impact with Doreen Jansson is a powerful, Scripture-centered webinar designed to equip leaders to lead with clarity, courage, and spiritual authority. Through practical leadership strategies, biblical truth, and personal reflection, this transformational training helps leaders strengthen Christlike character, build healthy organizational culture, prevent culture drift, align hiring and decision-making with Kingdom values, and multiply mission-focused leadership throughout their organization. Participants will walk away with actionable tools to assess cultural alignment, develop values-based leadership practices, and lead their teams with greater integrity, confidence, and Holy Spirit-led influence—so their ministry impact remains strong, unified, and life-giving in the fight to protect life and advance God’s Kingdom.
Finish Well: Succession Planning for Pregnancy Help Organizations
This 4-part series will take place Wednesday, June 24; Wednesday, July 29; Wednesday, August 26; and Wednesday, September 30 at 12 pm ET
If you are hoping to finish well and walk away with a successful handoff, it will take intentionality and you need a plan. In this 4-part series we will talk about the four primary areas that need focus: how to prepare yourself, the organization, the staff, and the board. Whether you will leave in one year or ten, start planning today!
Featured Courses
Use the links below to explore the different ways you can use the Academy to enhance the knowledge and skills of you and your organization.
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