Pregnancy Choices

Pregnancy can bring a range of decisions, experiences and emotions. Health and community professionals play an important role in ensuring people have access to accurate information, supportive conversations and appropriate care. 

SHINE SA’s Pregnancy Choices training provides an opportunity to develop your understanding of the options available to people experiencing an unintended or unexpected pregnancy, including continuing or not continuing a pregnancy. 

Through expert guest speakers, practical discussion and interactive learning, you’ll explore abortion care, pregnancy counselling, contraception, and antenatal and postnatal support. 

The training also considers the broader social, cultural and personal factors that can influence pregnancy experiences, with a focus on respectful, inclusive and person-centred care. 

• Explore unintended pregnancy in a global, national and South Australian context, including the experiences and decisions people may face. 

• Consider pregnancy experiences from Aboriginal perspectives and explore how culture, identity and community can influence care. 

• Develop awareness of reproductive coercion and family and domestic violence in the context of pregnancy. 

• Explore contraceptive options available in Australia, including emergency contraception. 

• Explore abortion care, pregnancy counselling, and antenatal and postnatal support options. 

The course is open to nurses, midwives, doctors, counsellors, community health workers, school counsellors, youth workers, Aboriginal Health Workers and any professional who may work with people who may experience an unintended pregnancy.

• Certificate of Attendance