Heartbeat Academy

Heartbeat International Academy offers life-affirming leaders, staff members, volunteers, and supporters with access to online webinars and courses on a wide variety of topics. In the Academy, you'll find trainings on our core foundational materials, as well as on topics on everything from the history of abortion in the United States to fundraising basics, and from prenatal diagnostic tests to implementing STI testing in your center. Browse the trainings below or look for the Academy logo in other HeartCart categories and find out what's available on the topics important to you!


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Gender Identity and Parenting Education

If we want to equip our clients to parent in our gender-confused world, we need to equip them to respond to questions about gender identity from their children.
This workshop will strengthen pregnancy centers by giving them the tools necessary to prepare parenting clients to navigate these complex issues in their family.

Presented by Bryce Asberg

$14.95

Getting Approved! Winning Presentations for School Leadership

Participants will leave with tools to be able to create a not only professional but a presentation that will get them approved to bring critical prevention services into public/private schools. They will learn how to build a true partnership to allow long term service within their schools.

Presented by Tonya Waite

$14.95

Healing the Whole Man

Abortion healing in men isn't just about one thing. Men bring childhood issues to the abortion crossroads and walk with impacting issues on the other side of being abortion minded or abortion impacted.

Presented by Gregory Mayo

$14.95

Reproductive Loss Support: A Companioning Approach

The goal of this workshop is to equip care providers with best practices in compassionate language and care, from a companioning approach, for supporting clients who have experienced miscarriage, abortion, or other types of reproductive loss.

Presented by Rebecca Capuano

$14.95

Small Centers, Big Impact

Understandably, much of the conversation in the pregnancy help world focuses on big centers serving large populations, but small and rural centers have a critical role to play in our movement. This workshop will help small centers learn how to define excellence in their community and move toward increasing effectiveness in accomplishing their mission.

Presented by Bryce Asberg

$14.95

Talking to Our Youth About Sex

What does it look like to open up and talk freely with our youth, our students, our children, our grandchildren about sex? Join us in talking about how we can give that freedom and wholeness to our youth.

Presented by Lynae McFarland

$14.95

Teach Clients to Co-Parent Effectively

Co-parenting is critical for clients who choose not to marry. This workshop will equip attendees to lead the way with the vision of healthy co-parenting, effective communication between bio parents, healthy hand-offs, sharing parenting time and equipping clients to become a positive co-parent team that includes both families as much as possible. Extensive handouts will be given that can be used with clients immediately, as well as sharing slides and articles on co-parenting.

Presented by Tammy Daughtery

$14.95

The Evolution of Openness in Adoption

In this workshop, we will discuss the history of openness in adoption: where it began, where it is today and the options that clients have in openness.

Presented by Kathryn Barnhill

$14.95

The Shift That Needs to Happened Within After Abortion Care

The trends are changing for those seeking help after an abortion. The need for immediate help and triage interventions is on the rise as chemical abortions account for more than half of the abortions performed in 2023. Women are seeking help quicker and within the window of their postpartum. Care providers must be ready with a comprehensive response.

Presented by Cheryl Dudek

$14.95

Theology of the Body: Healing Wounds, Restoring Hope

This workshop aims to introduce the beauty of the Theology of the Body, focusing on how it promotes sexual integrity, emotional health, and spiritual wholeness. Participants will explore how TOB principles support healing from past wounds, including abortion recovery, and guide them toward a future of restored dignity and hope.

Presented by Adeline Georges-Khouri

$14.95

Trauma, Abortion & the African-American Client

The goal of the workshop is to assess, understand, and address trauma (past, present, and anticipated) in the abortion-vulnerable, abortion-minded, and abortion-determined African-American client.
Presented by Pasha Bohlen
This course offers continuing education contact hours for nurses. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 16061 for 1.0 contact hours.

$14.95

Unlocking the Secrets of Reaching Hindus and Muslims

There are over 4 million Hindus and Muslims in the US, and if your PHO is in TX, NY, CA, IL, NJ, MI, MD, DE, AZ, or many others, this session is for you! At our clinic, 1 in 7 of our clients identify as one of these two religious groups, and we have found valuable ways to help these beautiful clients choose life and Jesus.

Presented by Jennifer Shelton

$14.95

When Perinatal Hospice Isn't Prolife

This workshop will introduce participants to the new national network of Parent Care Coordinators serving parents carrying to term following a prenatal diagnosis and the related first-of-its-kind prolife prenatal diagnosis website managed by Heartbeat International (prenataldiagnosis.org.) The limitations of perinatal hospice as a prolife response to prenatal diagnosis will be reviewed by way of published research.

Presented by Tracy Winsor

$14.95

Why Abortion Recovery is Critical to Your PRC

This workshop will cover how to start an abortion recovery program in your PRC and how to offer a weekend retreat model as an option as well as weekly courses. We'll also cover how to market your class/retreat, who should lead it, and how to fund it.

Presented by Victoria Robinson

$14.95

Accelerate Your Monthly Donor Program Revenue

Monthly donor programs provide predictable sustainable revenue. Participants will learn how to grow their monthly donor file and revenue through intentional marketing in all pregnancy center donor communications including events, email, website and direct mail.

Presented by Ray Pokorny

$14.95