Course Overview
About the Course
This course helps healthcare providers support parents after perinatal loss by recognizing emotional challenges and offering compassionate, individualized care. It includes strategies for promoting healing, enhancing communication, and providing ongoing community-based support after the loss.
Learning Objectives
• Understand the Emotional Impact of Perinatal Loss: Recognize the unique grief and emotional challenges faced by parents experiencing perinatal loss. • Identify Effective Support Strategies: Explore approaches to provide compassionate and individualized support to bereaved parents. • Enhance Communication Skills: Develop effective communication techniques to sensitively engage with grieving parents. • Promote Healing and Resilience: Learn methods to support parents in their healing journey, fostering resilience and hope.
Who Should Attend
Healthcare professionals working with families in the perinatal period. This includes mental health providers, social workers, nurses, physicians and midwives, doulas and birth workers, chaplains, lactation consultants, health educators, and more.
Meet The Instructor
Kiley Hanish is a neurodivergent occupational therapist specializing in mental health in the perinatal period. She holds both a master’s and a doctoral degree in occupational therapy from the University of Southern California. Kiley is the co-creator of the Emmy-nominated film Return to Zero, inspired by the stillbirth of her son, Norbert. Her personal experience of profound loss—and the absence of compassionate care that followed—led her to co-found RTZ Hope, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting families through pregnancy and infant loss. She is deeply committed to increasing support for bereaved parents and helping them navigate grief with compassion and hope.
Compassionate Care Starts With You
Where compassion meets competence—providing grief-informed support with empathy and skill.
$35.00