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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How to Compete with “Big Abortion”

The goal of the workshop is to provide pregnancy help organizations (PHOs) with an overview of national trends in the evolving abortion landscape and equip PHO staff and volunteers to counteract the “abortion without-borders” marketing strategy and “supply-induced-demand” business model of the abortion industry.

Presented by Lauren Muzyka

$14.95

How to Create a Compelling Client Movie

Video can be one of the most powerful tools to connect with your community. Learn how to take your movie making skills to the next level and engage your audience with a compelling client movie.

In this session. Heartbeat Media Specialist Lauren Bell will share tips, tricks and pointers that you can use to ensure your next client movie will create appreciation, interest, and support for the work done by your pregnancy help organization.

$14.95

How to Identify (and use) a Media "Hit" Piece

1 Hour Webinar Presented by Andrea Trudden, Vice President of Communications & Marketing at Heartbeat International

$14.95

How to Identify and Assist Victims of Human Trafficking

In this one hour training, you and your staff will learn how to identify and assist your clients who may be at risk for, or who may already be victims of human trafficking. 

$15.95

How to Make It Big in the Thrift Store World

This workshop will show you how to provide funding for pregnancy resource centers through running a thrift store.

Presented by Darren and Shellie DeVeau

$14.95

How to Present Adoption to the Biological Fathers

ne of the biggest hesitations that clients have about adoption is whether or not the child's biological father will agree to make an adoption plan with them. We will equip you to talk about adoption to fathers so that they have an opportunity to take part in this life-changing decision.

Presented by Carrie Murray Nellis

$14.95

How to Properly Disinfect Transvaginal Probes

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 16061 for one contact hour(s).

 


 

$19.95

How to Record and Manage Donations Affordably and Accurately

1 hr recorded webinar. Join us to gain practical tools and insights that will help you save time, reduce costs, and steward donor gifts with confidence.

Presented by Tony Gruber, Heartbeat International

 

 

$9.95

How to Register and Use the Maternity Home Locator Tool

 Presented by Valerie Harkins, Housing Specialist

 

 

$0.00

How to Respond to Common Objections about Adoption

Does sharing the adoption option with clients seem intimidating or often almost pointless? You aren’t alone in this perspective; join this session to hear practical ways of addressing adoption myths, bias, and the most often cited reasons women share as to why they aren’t open to this parenting option for their child.

Presented by Kristen McCool

$14.95

How to Write a Winning Grant Proposal Online Training

This one hour training will walk you through the Grant Writing Process.

$19.95

Human Trafficking and the Pregnancy Center

This human trafficking awareness and prevention class provides meaningful content intended to educate pregnancy center workers on common types of human trafficking. How to identify potential victims and traffickers in your centers, how to react to and report potential trafficking, and what resources are available to centers and victims. Presented By: Beverly Weeks

$14.95

Identifying Fake Clients

 

In this webinar, Heartbeat International's Director of Option Line, Nafisa Kennedy, will discuss ways to recognize potentially fake clients as well as what you can do to guard your center from these attacks. 

 

 

$15.95

Image Review Bundle 3

Join Heartbeat International's Tammy Stearns and Christa Brown for 6 pre-recorded image review case study sessions. Topics include fetal anomalies, documentation, measurements, transvaginal ultrasound, the Love Approach method, and artifacts.


Heartbeat International has championed our LOVE Approach Ultrasound training. Introduced in 2021,the LOVE Approach method to scanning is a new form of training that connects the technical needs and the spiritual needs for those working in pregnancy help to provide ultrasound training. We strongly encourage students unfamiliar with this approach to complete Heartbeat's refresher training to avoid confusion over variations in approach and terminology. Additionally please note that Heartbeat recognizes that, under the authority of their medical director, pregnancy medical clinics can implement policies and procedures unique to the communities that they serve. Contact medical@heartbeatinternational.org if you have any questions.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 16061 for 6.00 contact hours.


 

 

$119.95