SGM Online Training

Nurse & Chaplain Training

Virtual Introductory Training

Sufficient Grace Ministries offers a parent-centered, CEU-approved Perinatal and Infant Loss Support Training to all hospital L&D staff. The training describes how to help your patients create memories as they spend time with their baby throughout all gestations of pregnancy and infancy. It will include details on emotional support, remembrance photography services, SGM resources, memory-making items, and long-term SGM support that is available to patients following the birth/loss. The virtual training is completed online over a two-week period, to allow for flexible completion. Typically, the course takes four hours to complete, which will include instructional videos and a post-test.

In-Person Support

Sufficient Grace Ministries understands that one layer of the training can be done in an instructional setting, such as our virtual training program, and a second layer that is needed is the in-person demonstration of the bereavement services SGM provides grieving families. This portion of the training is where SGM volunteers will come on a bereavement call and partner with the hospital staff to provide perinatal or infant loss support to your patients. This portion can be completed during both emergent and perinatal hospice support.

Purpose & Objectives

This training equips nurses, chaplains, social workers, physicians, doulas, volunteers, and caregivers to implement a more comprehensive family-centered approach to caring for families facing a perinatal loss or life-limiting diagnosis in pregnancy with the following learner results.

• Recognize the bereaved parent’s perspective and the need for options and resources.
• Describe the caregiver’s responsibility in helping to create a lasting, tangible memory for bereaved parents experiencing perinatal loss.
• Apply companioning methods when forming a comprehensive family-centered perinatal loss support program in the hospital setting and beyond.
• Prepare a collaborative, multi-faceted palliative care team plan for perinatal hospice patients.

This continuing professional development activity was approved by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
(OBN-001-91) ONA # 2022-0000000670

This workshop is approved for 4 contact hours for chaplains through the National Association of Catholic Chaplains.

When registering, please direct questions to training@sufficientgraceministries.org.

Final details on pricing and training recommendations will be discussed in the Training Consultation meeting. Schedule an appointment using the Training Consultation Form.