Heartbeat Academy
Live Virtual
Classes
Each quarter Heartbeat Academy offers live virtual classes designed to provide in-depth training tailored to your organization's needs! Taught by our growing team of Heartbeat faculty members, these classes vary each quarter in topic and length, but each invites you to focus on and enhance your expertise over the course of a few weeks.
Select classes are currently open for enrollment. Browse classes below to plan ahead.
Live Classes
Explore Our Class Catalog
Topics and session lengths vary each quarter. Click any class to learn more or register if enrollment is open.
Clinical Care
Reproductive Grief Care for Clinics
Equip your clinical team to compassionately support clients through pregnancy loss and reproductive grief.
Fundraising
Finding & Fostering Major Gifts
Develop the skills to identify, cultivate, and steward major donors for lasting impact.
Education & Outreach
Sexual Wellness & Prevention Education
Learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate an effective prevention and community outreach program
Maternity Housing
Blueprint for Starting Your Maternity Home
A step-by-step framework for launching and sustaining a maternity housing ministry.
Client Services
ConCERT
An advanced 8-week course for anyone in a pregnancy help ministry who wants to gain confidence and take their current skills and knowledge to an even higher level.
Maternity Housing
Trauma-Informed Care for Maternity Housing
Integrate trauma-informed principles into every aspect of your residential program.
Maternity Housing
Strategic Fundraising for Maternity Homes
Build a diversified, sustainable fundraising strategy tailored to maternity housing ministries.
Learn the Difference
Webinar, Course, or Live Class?
Each format serves a different learning goal. Here's how they compare.
| Webinar | Online Course | Live Class | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | Single live session | Self-paced modules | Multi-week live sessions |
| Duration | 60–90 min | Varies, on your schedule | Several weeks |
| Content | Ever-increasing selection | Dynamic, multimedia activities | In-depth training on specific topics |
| Interaction | Limited | Progress-tracking features | Live interaction with faculty |
| Customization | None | ✓ Yes, group or self-paced | ✓ Yes, tailored to organization's needs |
| Depth | Overview / introduction | Moderate — foundational | In-depth mastery |
| Replay Access | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | Limited / cohort only |
| Cohort Community | — | — | ✓ Yes |
| Best For | Quick exposure to a topic | Learning at your own pace | Deep skill-building with peers |