Resolve Through Sharing Bereavement Training

Learn evidence-based best practices with our bereavement training. Our live and learner-directed courses allow you to attend from anywhere.

RTS educational opportunities are available in a variety of virtual formats for a range of professionals. Courses cover core competency training, bereavement coordinator certification, foundational bereavement topics, and diverse and emerging trends and topics. Choose the course that's right for you.

Bereavement education for healthcare professionals

Research shows that caring for dying patients and their families is the most anxiety-producing situation for healthcare professionals. Resolve Through Sharing (RTS) can help. More than 95% of survey participants found our training increased their comfort level surrounding bereavement care.

RTS training enhances knowledge, skills, and comfort levels when caring for grieving patients and families across the lifespan. More than 65,000 nurses, chaplains, physicians, social workers, and other caregivers have benefitted from our evidence- and relationship-based bereavement education program since 1981.

RTS Core Courses

Our three "core courses" are perinatal death, neonatal and pediatric death, and adult death. Once you have completed an RTS core course, you are eligible to become certified as an RTS bereavement coordinator.

RTS Core Course

RTS Bereavement Training: Perinatal Death

This RTS core course focuses on supporting families experiencing neonatal or pediatric death. Topics include newborn death, caring for children who will die and their families, bereaved children and teens, self-care, follow-up, and more.

Format:

Available as a 12-hour learner-directed course for individual completion and as a live, virtual 2-day course for groups of 30 or more.

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Audience:

Professionals who routinely interact with, provide care for, and support pregnant persons and their loved ones when a baby dies

Chaplains
Child life specialists
Doulas
Genetic counselors
Midwives

Nurses
Physicians
Social workers
Ultrasonographers

RTS Core Course

RTS Bereavement Training: Neonatal and Pediatric Death

Format:

Available as an 11-hour learner-directed course for individual completion and as a live, virtual 2-day course for groups of 30 or more.

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Audience:

Professionals who routinely interact with, provide care for, and support grieving families when a child dies

Behavioral health personnel
Chaplains
Child life specialists
Emergency medical services personnel
Genetic counselors

Interpreters
Nurses
Physicians
Social workers

RTS Core Course

RTS Bereavement Training: Adult Death

This RTS core course focuses on supporting families experiencing adult death. Topics include end-of-life care, traumatic death and stigma, grief and families, making meaning, self-care, and follow-up.

Format:

Available as an 11-hour learner-directed course for individual completion and as a live, virtual 2-day course for groups of 30 or more.

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Audience:

Professionals who routinely interact with, provide care for, and support those grieving the death of a loved one

Care coordinators
Chaplains
Ethicists
Genetic counselors
Interpreter services personnel

Long-term care administrators
Nurses
Physicians
Social workers

RTS Bereavement Coordinator Certification

If you recognize the value of the RTS evidence-based approach to standardized bereavement care and plan to lead that work within your organization, this 1-day certification course is for you. Meet, connect, and learn from healthcare professionals across the country and around the world. Topics include components of a sustainable bereavement care model, change models and theory, education and training, and organizational culture. As an RTS Certified Bereavement Coordinator (RTSCBC), you’ll receive access to professional groups, tailored consultations, program resources, a professional credential, and other support. Continuing education credits are available for nurses.

FORMAT:

Live, virtual 1-day course

2026 COURSE DATES:

February 24^th
May 19^th
September 23^rd
December 9^th

AUDIENCE:

RTS-trained professionals* who recognize the value of the RTS-approach to standardized bereavement care and plan to implement it in their own organizations.

*Individuals who have completed one or more RTS core course(s) (i.e., perinatal death, neonatal and pediatric death, adult death).

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Adam's Hope: Perinatal Bereavement Workshop for Genetic Counseling Students

When a baby is found to have a potentially life-threatening health condition before or just after birth, encounters, interactions, and exchanges with providers can have a significant effect on a family’s grief journey. One family, whose son Adam died of Trisomy 13, set about ensuring his story would make a difference. They focused their efforts on professionals caring for families whose baby is diagnosed with a life-threatening condition—especially those entering the field of genetic counseling. Through their efforts and in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, RTS offers this learner-directed module. Topics include relationship-based bereavement theories and concepts, types of perinatal loss, end-of-life decision-making, meaning-making, and more. A follow-up discussion guide for groups is included.

Format:

3-hour learner-directed course

Audience:

Genetic counseling students

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General Grief Training

Supporting Grief: A Basic Understanding From Resolve Through Sharing

This module is designed to provide a basic understanding of supporting grieving people. Intended for those working in all areas of the healthcare setting and beyond, the course content is accessible, yet evidence based. Topics include grief and bereavement, interacting with the bereaved, trauma and grief, making meaning, and self-care.

Format:

2-hour learner-directed course

Audience:

Professionals and others who, at any level, support those grieving and wish to gain a basic understanding of best practice

Educators in school settings
Emergency medical services personnel
Healthcare personnel in all roles and settings
Mortuary services personnel
Organization leaders
Public health and social services providers
Volunteers

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Bereavement Module 3-Pack

Available in English and Spanish, this course is designed to provide an in-depth introduction to foundational bereavement topics. Intended for those working in all areas of the healthcare setting and beyond, the course content is accessible, yet evidence based. Topics include communicating with the bereaved, memory-making and ritual, and Guided Participation—a method of teaching and learning.

Format:

2-hour learner-directed course

Audience:

Professionals and others who, at any level, support those grieving and wish to gain a basic understanding of best practice

Educators in school settings
Emergency medical services personnel
Healthcare personnel in all roles and settings
Mortuary services personnel
Organization leaders
Public health and social services providers
Volunteers

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RTS Webinar Series: Professional Perspectives

We partner with leading bereavement professionals around the world to deliver important and timely bereavement topics to you. These 1-hour presentations address diverse issues and emerging trends.

Format:

Live and on-demand webinars

Audience:

All professionals who interact with, provide care for, and support those grieving the death of a loved one

Advanced practice providers
Educators in school settings
Emergency medical services personnel
Healthcare personnel in all roles and settings
Mortuary services personnel
Nurse educators
Public health and social services providers

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Licensing Options

Licensing options are available for select courses. Create a package that meets your organization’s needs. Contact [email protected] for more information.

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Powerful training. Very educational. It was also done in a beautifully sensitive way for such a difficult topic.