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!
Better Together: FREE Monthly Affiliate Webinar
Tuesday, November 17 at 3pm EST
Conversations That Matter — Bringing Faith into the Client Room
As we walk alongside women and men facing pregnancy decisions, we meet people carrying many different stories—hope, fear, loss, faith, doubt, and sometimes deep hurt from the church. In a culture where faith can feel personal, unwelcome, or misunderstood, it can be difficult to know how to bring the hope of Christ into the counseling room with both courage and gentleness.
Join us for Better Together as we consider how to create a safe, caring space for spiritual conversations. We will talk about listening before speaking, recognizing openings without forcing them, asking questions that invite honesty, and responding with grace and biblical truth. We will also explore how to walk compassionately with clients who identify as believers, yet whose words, choices, or circumstances do not seem to reflect the faith they profess.
This conversation is not about finding the perfect script or pressing for an immediate response. It is about being faithful, present, prayerful, and prepared to offer the love and hope of Jesus in ways that honor each client’s dignity and story. Come ready to share what is helping your team and to be encouraged by one another.
Join us for the Better Together webinar - a live, unrecorded, interactive conversation designed to encourage connection, collaboration, and practical idea-sharing among Heartbeat affiliates.
Ultrasound Image Review: Novemberber 2026
Next review is Tuesday, November 3 at 12 pm ET
Join us once a month for a live image review, discussion, and case study. Click the button below for more!
Love Them or Lose Them: The Follow-Up That Counts
Wednesday, October 21 at 2 PM EST
Follow-up is where interest either becomes a trusted relationship—or quietly disappears. This presentation challenges participants to move beyond generic “just checking in” messages and adopt a more intentional way of staying connected. Using methods from the LOVE approach, attendees will learn how to recognize what each client needs next, lead with relevant value, and create follow-up conversations that feel personal rather than transactional. We will explore how consistency builds credibility, how thoughtful timing keeps momentum alive, and how genuine care turns one-time interactions into long term relationship.
Strategic Planning, Simplified
Thursday, November 12 at 12 PM EST
Strategic planning doesn't have to mean months of process and a plan that ends up on a shelf. This session breaks down the key components of a usable plan, how to build in the follow-through that gets it implemented, and what you need to have in place before you start—so you leave with a clear path to a plan you'll actually use.
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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