Caring for the Carer is a short, self-paced course created for healthcare professionals in perinatal and bereavement care. It offers space to pause, reflect, and strengthen your capacity to continue providing compassionate care. The course includes four modules, each taking approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. It includes practical, trauma-informed strategies to help you sustain your wellbeing while supporting families through pregnancy, birth, and loss.

On completion of this eLearning course, health professionals should be able to recognise and understand the disparity in Indigenous stillbirth rates compared to non-Indigenous stillbirth rates, have a better understanding of the historical and contemporary issues that impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s health, and recognise the importance of culturally safe care in health to improve care and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and communities.

This course builds upon the established Safer Baby Bundle learning course to provide additional support to health professionals working with women and families of refugee and migrant backgrounds during pregnancy. Modules include practical guidance on how families would like to have conversations about stillbirth prevention, skills for working well with interpreters, and opportunities to strengthen culturally safe and trauma responsive approaches to pregnancy care. The course includes a total of 5 self-paced learning modules, each taking approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.

This training package is designed to support interpreters working in diverse pregnancy care settings across Australia. Modules include information about the design and delivery of maternity care in Australia, common tests and investigations offered during pregnancy, approaches to stillbirth prevention, and interpreter wellbeing and self-care. The package includes a total of 6 self-paced learning modules, each taking approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.