Education

PBSO provides educational programs and support to health care professionals and the general public about perinatal loss. Current offerings include;

1. RTS Bereavement Support Training Conference
A baby dies... A wanted pregnancy is lost...As a professional, how do you react? What do you say? RTS Support Training could be the answer for you! Learn the skills based on grief theory to help grieving families.

Multi-disciplinary two day RTS Bereavement Training Programs are offered twice a year, at various locations around Ontario, to professional and lay persons involved in the care of bereaved parents at the time of their baby's death. This intensive program allows for hands on practice of many of the techniques presented including picture taking, hand and foot printing and shrouding.

This two day course provides insight, knowledge and hands-on classroom experience with the skills necessary to interact with families experiencing perinatal loss at any gestation.

2. Perinatal Bereavement for Spiritual Caregivers: Part I
Sponsored by Taylor Funeral Home & Cremation Centre Newmarket Chapel, this half day seminar will increase your understanding of perinatal bereavement. This session will be lead by health care professionals that are RTS trained and are also be bereaved parents themselves. A 30 pages caregiver manual and educational certificate is provided.