Infant & Pregnancy
Loss Doula
Certificate Program
Scholarship Application
Home Hospice Association’s IPLD certificate program covers preconception loss due to early and late miscarriage, medical and elective termination, prematurity, stillbirth and neonatal death and the subsequent feelings and emotions families experience during perinatal loss.

Your successful application and participation in this program will equip you with skills, knowledge and perspectives to support, encourage and empower grieving individuals and their families. In doing so you will lead your community and represent the HHA Pre and Perinatal Hospice Program where ever you call home.
Representation may include:
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Managing the local Comfort Cozie Program
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Care for your community’s most marginalized individuals
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Lead the awareness of the Pre and Perinatal Hospice Program in your community through presentations such as The IPLD and the Funeral Director
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Run a local Our Babies, Our Grief Progressive Healing Group
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Offer one on one care before, during and after a labour that will end in loss
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Take the lead in community outreach to build Business and Agency Partners
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Become an HHA Board Member
For more information about Pre and Perinatal Hospice and its importance to holistic end of life
care, please click here
Home Hospice Association’s Goal
To have trained Infant & Pregnancy Loss Doulas able to provide care in
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Hospital Birthing Units
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Women’s Shelters
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Women’s Prisons
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Community Prenatal Centres
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Midwifery Clinics
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Family Health Teams
Scholarships are awarded
based upon:
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How rural or marginalized your community
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Passion for community service
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Willingness to grow care specific to pregnancy and infant loss
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Knowledge of the current care available in your community
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Interest or experience in leadership
Scholarships are available thanks to those in your community who recognize the need and are committed to championing change.