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About us

At COPE, we believe every parent deserves access to compassionate support and reliable information. Our mission is to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and empower families facing perinatal mental health challenges.

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Your support can make a lasting impact. By donating to COPE, you help to provide vital support, resources, and research for families facing perinatal mental health challenges. Together, we can make sure no parent is alone.

Getting help

Understand when to seek help, how to take the first step of talking to someone, types of support available, plus how to find specialised perinatal mental health support near you.

  • Accredited by COPE: Centre of Perinatal Excellence

  • Australian College of Midwives (ACM) CPD Recognised Activity for 5.5 hours

  • Built in assessment to consolidate your learning

  • Digital certificate of completion

$320 AUD (plus GST)

Note: Purchase of this course entitles course access and certification for one person only. Group discounts apply for organisations as well as students. To enquire, please contact [email protected]

Description

In this course, we provide you with a comprehensive overview of Perinatal Loss and offer practical advice when caring for families following a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death. This information is particularly useful for this seeking perinatal mental health midwife training​ and similar perinatal mental health nurse training. 

This course has five core modules:

  • Understanding perinatal grief

  • Challenges and barriers

  • Supporting the bereaved family

  • Going home

  • Support for the health care professional

Course Objectives

  1. Gain an understanding of Perinatal grief and how this type of grief impacts on families

  2. Understand the different types of perinatal loss – miscarriage, termination of pregnancy, stillbirth, & neonatal death

  3. Learn the common reactions parents experience in the early stages of their grief

  4. Explore the challenges bereaved parents face following the death of their baby(ies)

  5. Examine the challenges that the health care practitioner must navigate when caring for bereaved families

  6. Define and learn what ‘parent-centred care’ means and why it is important in the context of perinatal loss

  7. Outline the five (5) core goals of effective bereavement care

  8. Explore how to help parents create memories & enhance parenting opportunities

  9. Be aware of the support organisations and options for help following discharge from hospital including a subsequent pregnancy

  10. The importance of self-care for the practitioner

Estimated time

Complete this perinatal mental health training​ at your own pace within twelve (12) weeks. Estimated time of completion is 5-6 hours. 

Please note: At 8 weeks from your commencement date, you will be emailed a reminder that you have 4 weeks remaining. Access to the course will be terminated at 12 weeks.

Purchasing this course entitles access of content and certification by one person only. Sharing of content is in breach of the terms of sale.

Group discounts apply:

  • Students (15%)

  • Five or more registrations (20%)

  • Twenty or more registrations (25%).

For group bookings an invoice can be issued and course codes provided at checkout to avoid the need for individual payments. Contact [email protected] to arrange this.

Conditions

Acknowledgements

This Program has been developed by Eliza Strauss who is a Bereavement Midwife and co-founder of the Perinatal Loss Centre. To find out more about the presenter, see the attached information.

The Program has been reviewed and is recommended by the Centre of Perinatal Excellence.

Presenter information

Biography – Eliza Strauss

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