Course Curriculum
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Module 1: Welcome to the Pregnancy Options Workshop
- Welcome!
- Pre-Course Assessment
- Facilitator Introduction: Parker
- An Overview of All-Options
- Course Overview
- Facilitator Introduction: Poonam
- A Note About Language
- The All-Options Approach
- Your Next Steps
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Module 2: Values Clarification
- Values Clarification Intro
- Our Values in This Context
- Liberation - by Innovating Education
- Values Clarification Passage: Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care
- How Do Our Values Surface in Options Counseling?
- "Look, Spaghetti Arms!"
- Hold the Frame
- Unbiased Information on and Referral for All Pregnancy Options Are Essential to Informed Consent in Reproductive Health Care
- Framing Our Values Clarification Survey
- Values Clarification Survey
- Discussion
- Reflection
- Guided Journaling
- Challenge
- Strategies for Navigating Bias
- What's Next?
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Module 3: Pregnancy Experiences in Context
- Pregnancy Experiences in Context Intro
- Pregnancy In Context
- Reflection
- Factors that Influence Pregnancy & Parenting Decisions
- The History of Reproductive Justice - In Our Own Voices
- What is Reproductive Justice?
- Why and How I Am Choosing to Be a Mother
- What's Next?
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Module 4: Unplanned Pregnancy and Parenting
- Unplanned Pregnancy and Parenting Intro
- Unintended Pregnancy
- Should Preventing Unintended Pregnancy Be Family Planning’s Holy Grail?
- An RJ Lens for Pregnancy Intention
- Reflection
- For Nonbinary Parents, Giving Birth is Especially Fraught
- Gender-Inclusive Pregnancy Care
- Language Practice!
- Six Federal Policies that Fall Short of Protecting Working Families
- Parenting
- Lack of Parenting Supports and Takeaways
- Quiz on Pregnancy and Parenting
- What's Next?
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Module 5: Abortion
- Abortion Intro
- Learning Check-In: Where Are You?
- Abortion Overview
- Demystifying Medication Abortion - We Testify
- Abortion Barriers and Restrictions
- The Dobbs Decision Has Unleashed Legal Chaos for Doctors and Patients
- "We’re a Part of This Movement, Too."
- Abortion by State
- Abortion Continued
- Restrictions on Later Abortions Hurt People of Color the Most
- Reflection
- Abortion Quiz
- What's Next?
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Module 6: Adoption
- Adoption Intro
- Rewriting the Fairy Tale Adoption Narrative
- Guest Speaker Introduction: Susan Dusza Guerra Leksander
- Susan's Presentation
- Reflection
- Ethics Over Economics: Building a Better Adoption System Amid Baby ‘Shortages’
- Adoption Takeaways
- 6 Months Since Roe Ruling, How the Adoption Landscape Has Changed
- Quiz on Adoption
- What's Next?
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Module 7: Language Approach and Tools
- Language Approach & Tools Intro
- Reminder of the All-Options Approach
- The Patient Has The Answer from Innovating Education
- The Approach from Innovating Education
- Counseling for Pregnancy Ambivalence from Innovating Education
- Reflection
- Curiosity: Using Open-Ended Questions
- Reflection
- Some of Our Favorite Phrases
- Reflection
- Journaling
- What's Next?
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Module 8: Practicing Skills
- Practicing Skills Intro
- Unpacking an All-Options Role Play
- Listen: All-Options Role Play
- Getting Comfortable with Crying
- Analyzing Counselor Responses
- When You Have Limited Time
- Revisiting Our Favorite Phrases
- What's Next?
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Module 9: Referrals
- Referrals Intro
- How and When to Make a Referral
- Reflection
- What We're Up Against
- The Fake Abortion Clinics of America
- Inside a Pregnancy Center That’s Revolutionizing Reproductive Care
- What Crisis Pregnancy Centers Really Do
- Constraints and Criteria for Referrals
- Reflection
- What's Next?
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Module 10: Closing
- Closing Information
- Almost There!
- Course Evaluation
- THANK YOU!!
Accompanying Training Workbook
to assist you with your learning journey
Our self-guided Pregnancy Options Workshop comes with an accompanying PDF workbook that includes important course information, links to All-Options handouts and additional resources, and space to complete course activities.
