Certified in one session.
Ready for the next visit.
RGCare5 is administered only by certified clinicians. The questions do no harm; how they are asked can. The live 90-minute session covers the research, how to administer the screener, compassionate communication, and practice in the conversation that follows.
Open to the people who sit with patients after a loss.
Counselors and marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, psychologists, chaplains, bereavement care coordinators, nurses and midwives, physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. You can certify on your own or with your practice. Certification stays active as long as your RGCare5 license does not lapse for two years or more.
Certifying on your own.
Many of the clinicians who see people after a loss work alone: a therapist in private practice, a chaplain, a social worker in a center. You do not need a practice account to use RGCare5. You certify, you receive your own RGCare5 account, and you screen your own clients from the first visit after your credentials arrive.
If colleagues join you later, your account becomes the practice account and your certification carries over.
INDIVIDUAL CLINICIAN
Certification, paid once $395
RGCare5 license, per year $195
No charge per screening or per client. Practices of two or more are quoted.
Ninety minutes, six parts.
1
Reproductive loss and grief
How prevalent loss is, why it goes unrecognized, and the effects of prolonged grief disorder.
2
The research behind RGCare5
What more than 1,500 women told us about screening and why clinicians are required to be certified.
3
Administering RGCare5
Before the visit or in the exam room: how to introduce it and when to screen again.
4
Compassionate communication
Clear language, empathy, space to process, and teach back. The four practices patients asked for.
5
The conversation
What to say at each level of concern, when to refer, and why a conversation is always required.
6
Practice
A demonstration, then at least one role play as patient or clinician. Required for certification.
From the first question to the follow-up.
1
Screen
The patient answers five questions before the visit or privately in the exam room, and can stop at any time.
2
Read
You see the patient's answers and a level of concern.
3
Respond
Evidence-based guidance built on the CARE framework, keyed to the pattern of answers.
4
Follow up
Record the visit, plan the next step, and screen again at one month, six months, then annually.
The four steps every certified clinician follows after a screening. Certification teaches each one, with care guidance in the platform keyed to the patient's answers.
The CARE framework.
Connect
Introduce the conversation, acknowledge the loss, and validate the experience.
Address
Discuss the screening responses and any immediate concerns
Resources
Offer appropriate support and referral resources.
Ensure
Follow-Up
Schedule follow-up and rescreen as appropriate.
Live, small, and led by the people who built it.
Sessions are live and online, 90 minutes, led by Institute clinical educators, and kept small so that everyone practices the conversation. The first sessions begin March 9, 2027, with four dates open now. Each runs 90 minutes. New dates are added as sessions fill.
Tuesday, March 9, 2027 9:00 am PT, 12:00 pm ET
Thursday, March 11, 2027 2:00 pm PT, 5:00 pm ET
Tuesday, March 23, 2027 2:00 pm PT, 5:00 pm ET
Thursday, March 25, 2027 9:00 am PT, 12:00 pm ET
CERTIFICATION
$395 per clinician, paid once
Stays active as long as your RGCare5 license does not lapse for two years or more. Using RGCare5 requires an annual license: $195 per year for an individual clinician, quoted for practices.
Your Instructors.
Michaelene Fredenburg, LHD hc
President and CEO, Institute of Reproductive Grief Care
A global authority on care after reproductive loss, author of several books, and contributor to peer-reviewed research. With more than 25 years of nonprofit leadership and service as a Community Scholar with the Indiana University Indianapolis Health Communication Program, she leads the research and development of RGCare5 and co-teaches every certification session.
Maria Brann, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Communication, Indiana University Indianapolis
Co-chair of the Institute's Healthcare Task Force. Her research centers on how people talk about pregnancy and birth loss and how providers can deliver difficult news with more empathy. She co-leads the patient preference research behind RGCare5 and teaches the certification session.
Jennifer J. Bute, PhD
Professor, Department of Communication, Indiana University Indianapolis
Co-chair of the Institute's Healthcare Task Force and former Senior Editor of Health Communication. Her research examines how patients and providers talk about reproductive health, including infertility and miscarriage. She led the design of the RGCare5 certification session and teaches it.
Early seats are limited.
Certification fees fund the Institute's research and keep RGCare5 affordable for every practice that needs it.