October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
Life Perspectives is honoring Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month!
Everyone knows someone who has had a miscarriage. Do you want to know how to help? Do you need help yourself?
In honor of Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month, Life Perspectives, experts in reproductive grief care, is offering a collection of information, tools and resources to help everyone impacted by miscarriage.
Follow #ForgetMeNot2020 on social media, for updates throughout the month.
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR:
- Announcement honoring this month and our press kit
- Site for those impacted: MiscarriageHurts.com
- Video: You are not alone!
- Guest Lecture series, Research Reveals. The focus of this lecture is miscarriage communications for healthcare professionals. All are welcome!
TOOLKITS FOR EVERYONE
Would you like to help someone who has experienced grief or emotional pain after miscarriage? We have created these helpful toolkits full of advice, tips and practical steps to help anyone impacted by miscarriage.
- Just For You: Toolkit for women who have experienced a miscarriage
- Friends & Family: When someone you love has had a miscarriage
- Men: The invisible grief of men impacted by miscarriage
- Healthcare professionals: helping patients process their miscarriage
- Faith based leaders: Tools to heal after miscarriage within your congregation
Life Perspectives® is the global leader in education, research, expertise and support after reproductive loss including miscarriage and abortion, without religious or political affiliation. Life Perspectives provides training and resources to health professionals including hospitals, medical professionals, therapists, social workers and pregnancy centers, as well as community and faith leaders. Life Perspectives is nationally accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and the National Association of Social Workers, and approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to provide continuing education. Life Perspectives is at the forefront of creating impartial and impactful research to understand the way individuals process reproductive losses, and to establish global standards for offering compassionate care. Life Perspectives also offers a safe place, without religious or political affiliation, for those impacted by miscarriage and abortion at MiscarriageHurts.com® and AbortionChangesYou.com®. Life Perspectives is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Data Collection
& Research
Life Perspectives collects data and partners with organizations to publish articles and research studies.
Healing
Resources
Mental Health
Professionals
Receive training and credit for your license. Life Perspectives is approved by the National Association of Social Workers and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.
Healthcare
Professionals
Life Perspectives is approved by the State of California Board of Registered Nursing as a Continuing Education Provider. Receive specific training and credit for your license while learning a variety of effective communication modalities, practical applications, and personal self-care strategies.
Healthcare
Professionals
Pregnancy
Centers
Our unique Reproductive Grief Care Training for pregnancy centers and pregnancy clinics will broaden your organization's understanding of reproductive loss and the grief that surrounds it. You can bring hope, healing and resources to hurting people who may be suffering and alone.
Community & Faith Based
Organizations
Is your organization a safe place to talk about reproductive grief and loss? Life Perspectives offers training for leaders who want their organizations to become a safe place for individuals to share about loss and begin the healing journey.
Community & Faith-Based
Organizations
A Desire to Create Healing from Personal Loss
Responding to the urgent need to provide support for over 2 million couples experiencing reproductive loss in the U.S. each year, Life Perspectives is dedicated to effecting the widespread adoption of a reproductive loss standard of care through grief care education, data collection and research, and the provision of healing resources. We invite you to join our efforts.
Michaelene Fredenburg, CEO/President
Additional Resources
All proceeds go to supporting those impacted by miscarriage and abortion
Testimonials
"The printed resources provide a safe place where grief after miscarriage or abortion is both acknowledged and provided a venue for processing."
Dr. Gary Strauss, EdD, Professor of Psychology, Biola
“Life Perspectives has the opportunity to influence the next generation of therapists.”
Paul Mulligan, CEO, Catholic Charities Phoenix & Life Perspectives’ Expansion Task Force
"This work that you are doing is gold!"
School Based Family Counseling Student Association, Cal State Los Angeles
“We think it’s important for our staff to have Life Perspectives’ training to better respond and support clients. This allows us to reach them on a new level, leading them to a place where healing can begin.”
Michelle Freitas, Haven of Hope, San Diego Rescue Mission
"Thank you for the wonderful training. I have received nothing but positive feedback!"
Captain Terry Gordon, Chaplain, Southwest Region Director, USN
"Life Perspectives is the standard for reproductive grief care."
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of California Irvine School of Medicine
