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!
From Contact to Connection: Client Care, Follow up, and Generational Intelligence
Presented by Michele Cheresnick, Heartbeat International
What if silence isn’t disinterest—but a signal we’re meant to understand? In this workshop, we’ll reframe follow-up from a task into an extension of care, exploring what non-response may communicate in moments of stress, overwhelm, or uncertainty. Together, we’ll learn how to communicate in ways that feel safe, clear, and respectful across generations—reducing missed connections and strengthening trust through consistency, tone, and intentional presence. This session will equip you to move beyond simply making contact and toward building meaningful, lasting connection when it matters most.
Presented by The Heartbeat International Affiliate Services Team
Join Kathy, Michele, Lauri, & Alaina for Better Together, a live, one-hour quarterly webinar created especially for Heartbeat International affiliates. This interactive, unrecorded session is designed to foster meaningful connection, real-time support, and shared learning.
This is your space to:
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Ask questions and receive guidance from our Affiliate Services team
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Connect with fellow affiliates across the network
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Share insights, challenges, and practical wisdom
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Learn from one another in a collaborative, encouraging environment
Better Together is for your entire team—whether you’re an Executive Director, board member, part of your client services team, or serving in marketing, fundraising, or another role. Everyone has something valuable to contribute and gain.
Whether you come with specific questions or simply want to listen and learn, Better Together is a valuable opportunity to strengthen relationships, gain fresh perspective, and be reminded that you are not alone in this work.
Come as you are. Leave encouraged, equipped, and empowered.
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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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