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Advanced training

“Death on Hold” training course

by Fondazione CiaoLapo
written by Fondazione CiaoLapo

Target audience: the course is for health care personnel and helping relationship professionals only

Modality: The mixed-mode course(10 recorded FAD modules and 3 live online final modules) runs from March 13, 2026 to October 9, 2026.

Duration: 50 hours divided between: video lectures (26 hours), self-study (10 hours), live case discussion and supervision (14 hours) on the dates: Sept. 11, Sept. 18, Oct. 9 from 3 to 7 p.m.

Course Objectives.

The course provides theoretical knowledge and practical skills to:

  • Welcome and support families affected by perinatal loss with expertise and sensitivity.
  • Promote respectful accompaniment, recognizing individual needs in the bereavement journey.
  • Integrate the most up-to-date knowledge in the fields of psychology and psychotraumatology, obstetrics, and nursing.
  • Spreading better awareness and culture of perinatal bereavement in health and social care settings
  • Networking in an integrated and multidisciplinary perspective with the various professional figures, who accompany women and couples in the process of grieving and new parenting

Course topics

First module – Supporting women, couples, and families with perinatal bereavement experience: presentation and framing of the salutogenic and trauma-oriented model

Second module – Infertility

Third module – Miscarriage

Fourth module – The termination of pregnancy due to pathology

Fifth module – Death in utero

Sixth module – Postnatal death

Seventh module – Bereavement in the perinatal time

Eighth module – Psychotraumatology of perinatal bereavement

Ninth module – Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of complicated bereavement

Tenth module – Expectant again: pregnancy and parenting after perinatal bereavement

Eleventh module (live) – analysis and conceptualization of clinical cases brought by our lecturers

Twelfth module (live) – analysis and conceptualization of clinical cases brought by the trainees

Thirteenth module (live) – presentation of final work in small groups.

 

Scientific Direction

Dr. Claudia Ravaldi, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, PhD in neuroscience, master’s degree in history and techniques of children’s literature, CiaoLapo Foundation

Professor Alfredo Vannacci, medical pharmacologist and toxicologist, University of Florence, CiaoLapo Foundation

Lecturers

Course instructors are professional men and women specializing in gynecology, obstetrics, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and counseling in the helping relationship with many years of certified experience on perinatal bereavement, both from a research perspective and from the perspective of clinical and field support.

Enrollment and costs

Course registration includes:

  • 13 teaching modules on Moodle platform (10 recorded, 3 live)
  • access to registrations from March 13 to October 31, 2026
  • teaching materials
  • Two hours of mentoring (during the period between Sept. 21 and Oct. 2) for the writing of the final clinical case

Completion of the course also enables:

  • Access the 30 hours of supervision required for enrollment in the CiaoLapo Foundation’s Perinatal Loss Assistant ( PERLA) registry

Early Bird: the cost for registration is 400 euros until January 31, 2026

From February 1, 2026, the registration fee will be 500 euros

PLEASE NOTE: 80 places are available: applications, complete in all their parts, will be accepted in order of arrival.

No CME credits are provided

Enrollment deadline

Registration will be closed upon completion of 80 places, and in any case no later than April 1, 2026

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The PerLA Registry – Perinatal Loss Assistant

The registry PerLA – Perinatal loss assistant, brings together health care workers and helping relationship professionals who have completed training in perinatal bereavement certified by the CiaoLapo Foundation

To obtain PerLA certification, the practitioner must complete the 50-hour training and conduct 30 hours of case supervision in the following two years.

The PerLA registry will be used as a reference list of professionals with certified training in perinatal bereavement for couples who apply to our Association.

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Advanced training

The First Thousand Days – Advanced Course aa 24/25

by Fondazione CiaoLapo
written by Fondazione CiaoLapo

The University of Florence, in collaboration with the PeaRL Perinatal Research Laboratory and the CiaoLapo ETS Foundation, presents the new edition of the advanced course “The First Thousand Days. Promoting and protecting healthin pregnancy and after birth.”

This training, which will run from October 2024 to June 2025, offers a unique opportunity for perinatal health professionals and others in the field to deepen their knowledge on crucial topics such as maternal-fetal health, nutrition, medication safety, and responsive care.

The course adopts a blended format, combining synchronous and asynchronous online classes with three in-person meetings in Florence (also usable online). This structure makes it possible to balance the flexibility of distance learning with the importance of direct interaction.

 

In the image you can read the anonymous evaluations of the aa 23/24 course. Each parameter was evaluated with an average score above 90/100. Participants from the previous edition particularly enjoyed it:

  • The variety of topics covered: “It was an informative course on many topics, food for thought, knowledge based on extensive up-to-date bibliography.”
  • Practical applicability: “Comprehensive, practical and expendable in everyday clinical practice.”
  • The quality of the lecturers: “The lecturers in the various classes proved to be very competent, passionate and helpful.”

The course covers key topics such as safe medication use in pregnancy, perinatal psychological well-being, management of perinatal trauma and bereavement, and trauma-focused approaches in fragile situations.

If you are interested in expanding your skills on the importance of the first thousand days and responsive care, registration is now open for the 2024/2025 edition. It will be possible to register until September 16, 2024, and educational activities will begin on October 1, 2024, and end on June 30, 2025.

The course has an educational load of 25 CFUs and a cost of €600 (€420 for under 28).

For details and information visit the course page on the PeaRL Laboratory website.

They say about us

  • “It is a very powerfully enriching course; it should be preparatory to work. If it were, many hospital settings would improve, one operator and one word at a time.”
  • “Comprehensive, practical and expendable in everyday clinical practice.”
  • “Enriching and engaging, adds further knowledge in an extremely thoughtful and accurate vein!”
  • “A valuable course to stimulate, create, foster new knowledge, relationships and projects.”
  • “Beautiful, interactive, rich in content and insights for everyday work.”
  • “A multidisciplinary course in which crucial skills, experiences and information flow in to accompany couples through the first thousand days.”
  • “Enriching and necessary. Allows you to deconstruct the ‘it’s always been done this way,’ guiding you to understand how to really support each family.”
  • “I feel I have more tools to apply to my profession.”
  • “Absolutely to be followed in order to be able to say and do everything with greater awareness, to contribute with one’s work to really do salutogenesis, bringing daily respect, attention and care to the families one is dealing with.”
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Advanced training

“Memory Box” course for hospital staff

by Fondazione CiaoLapo
written by Fondazione CiaoLapo

If you work in a hospital in the maternal-child area or if you are a student/student in midwifery, nursing and medical degree programs, this course, free of charge, is for you!

The first hours after the diagnosis of abortion or perinatal death are crucial in fostering a physiological grieving process. However, the topic of perinatal bereavement and respectful care for women to affected couples and families is often neglected in the training of health professionals, treated superficially or not treated at all.

The World Health Organization, in 2019, reiterated the importance of appropriate zero-hour care in all cases of loss in pregnancy or after birth. According to our latest study, Italy along with Chile and a few others ranks in the bottom ranks for respectful care in perinatal bereavement, also referred to as bereavement care.

Our Memory Box training project, which began in 2012, has long been trying to remedy our country’s training backlog: in ten years we have conducted 300 hours of free training in many Italian hospitals, both in-person and online, reaching about 4,000 providers.

However, the pandemic has highlighted new critical organizational and care issues, especially in southern regions, islands and some border areas in northern Italy.

So we thought we would expand our training offerings so that we could easily reach all the male and female workers who work in hospitals, and particularly in obstetrics, gynecology, and neonatology departments.

In fact, to participate in the course, it is enough to have a computer or a smartphone, and today, in Italy, everyone has a smartphone!

With this type of organization, many barriers, which may have once hindered training, are finally broken down: our course is free of charge, divided into 10 thematic modules totaling 6 hours and 45 recorded and two hours of self-study, distance learning, usable via telephone, in 30 days time.

The only remaining barrier might be the fear related to this complex topic, but we will also face this human, very human fear together.

So: as of today, our Memory Box training is usable on a platform and open annually to 8000 perinatal area hospital workers, from student and student trainees, and remains free of charge because the cost is borne entirely by the association.

It is possible to register while places last, keeping in mind that we can guarantee up to a maximum of one thousand registrants at the same time and that places become free after thirty days.

As of March 2023, Memory Box certification has been obtained by more than 1,500 practitioners nationwide, with course quality ratings exceeding 90% on all parameters assessed

In brief:

  • Memory Box training is usable on platform
  • Memory Box training consists of 9 teaching modules, from diagnosis to puerperium, totaling 6.45 hours of video course and 1 self-study module of about 2 hours.
  • It is open annually to 8000 perinatal hospital workers and student* trainees, in blocks of about 800 enrolled per month.
  • From the time of enrollment, there are 30 days to complete the course, pass the placement test and obtain the “Memory Box: hospital trauma-oriented perinatal bereavement care” certification.
  • The certification lasts 3 years, after which it can be renewed free of charge by participating in a refresher course, in a 2-hour distance learning mode.
  • When 70% of the operators of a hospital ward have obtained certification, the ward is accredited by CiaoLapo and entered into the “FOOTPRINT” registry (department FOrmatO on PeRINaTal luT) and apply to receive our memory boxes free of charge.

To learn more, watch the video of the introductory lecture for the course*. In the description of the introductory video you will find the link to register for the course platform.

*In the introductory lecture I had been optimistic about the total duration, but then I preferred to include a few more hours to clarify the most critical aspects of care well. In fact, the recorded course lasts 6:45

We are waiting for you!

 

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