As part of our work to empower individuals and communities, we offer comprehensive professional development training. This is available for health and community professionals and can be tailored to your organisation or sector where possible. 

Topics include best practice counselling strategies for supporting women with an unplanned pregnancy; legal aspects of pregnancy termination, including medical abortion and provision of services to minors; and evidence-based information on all pregnancy options, including referral pathways. 

We can also deliver guest lectures to university or other tertiary students, and run a conference every two years for professionals and students working in reproductive health. 

Upcoming training

Our next full day Unplanned Pregnancy Best Practice Counselling Training is taking place in Brisbane on the 20th November 2019. Numbers are limited, to register click here. 

Sponsored places to attend this training our available for workers in Regional, Rural or Remote Queensland. Priority for these places will be given to professionals who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people or work in an Aboriginal organisation.

For more information about this training or sponsorship please contact our Education and Training Coordinator, Pamela Doherty, on 07 3357 9933 (ext 3) or at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Please note that all of our training can also be delivered in your community or directly to your organisation (minimum of 10 participants). Contact us for details. 

Training options

Unplanned pregnancy best practice counselling (1 full day)

The training provides participants with comprehensive knowledge and skills comprised of two elements: counselling and information. The training program incorporates current evidence-based information on all options - abortion (including medication and surgical methods), adoption and parenting - as well as key communication techniques with clients. The topics covered include:

• Evidence-based information on all options: abortion, adoption and parenting;
• Language and strategies to use in non-directive, unbiased counselling;
• Experiential activities to develop best-practice counselling skills;
• Reproductive coercion 
• Pregnancy Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018, including abortion care pathways

Pregnancy options workshop (1 - 3 hrs)

This is a specialised pregnancy options workshop for medical professionals, including GPs, nurses and sexual health practitioners. This workshop is predominantly delivered in partnership with other training providers, but is also available to other groups and can be tailored to your needs.

Guest lecture presentations

In addition to professional development training workshops, Children by Choice also delivers guest lectures and presentations on request to tertiary medical, nursing, public health, midwifery, or law students, and other groups. These lectures are tailor-made to meet course requirements.

Agency visits

We welcome visits from workers across the community, health and education sectors to talk generally about our work and discuss issues of importance to your organisation and clients. We can also come to you for general or specific information sessions relevant to your work and your clients - for example, issues specific to young women's sexual and reproductive health. 

What our training participants think about our workshops

"Well done for promoting discussion and giving us interesting information."

"Thank you very much for your energy and support."

"Always extremely informative."

"Very insightful and provided information as to what needs to be done to advocate for women."

"I really valued the best practice principles - useful to keep as a reminder for guidance."

"Covered in-depth information and options for women."

"Excellent - gave us everything we needed to know plus more. It enabled me to question my belief on a more global perspective."

"After your session our team spoke of how excellent the presentation was and how practical the content. Your presentation skills are second to none!"

Enquiries or further information

For more information or to express your interest in attending our next training session, please contact our Education and Training Coordinator, Pamela Doherty, on 07 3357 9933 (ext 3) or at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Please note that all of our training can also be delivered in your community or directly to your organisation (minimum of 10 participants). Contact us for details.