Resolve Through Sharing

11/28/2025

The Candlelight Memorial Service is coming up this Monday night. Every December, this service is held for parents, family members, and others who are grieving pregnancy loss or infant death. The event includes a community dinner, candle lighting ceremony, and nondenominational remembrance service.

11/26/2025

Whether you are navigating a recent loss or missing a loved one who has been gone for many years, the holidays can bring up difficult emotions. Here are some suggestions for managing family gatherings and the holidays when you are grieving.

11/25/2025

Earlier this year, Compassionate Goodbyes—a partner program of Resolve Through Sharing—launched the learner-directed module Enhancing Communication Skills: When Clients Are Faced With the Death of a Pet. We are excited to announce that a second module is now available! Memory-Making and Ritual When a Pet Dies helps clients maintain connection with their deceased pets and helps staff build resiliency in their work. Discover how to co-create meaningful moments and explore what is most important to clients at the end of their pet's life. This premier course discusses fostering trust, avoiding coercion, memory-making opportunities, ritual with clients, and ritual with staff. Designed for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, office managers, and other clinic staff, the module can be completed in under 1 hour.

If you are a veterinary professional interested in improving your interactions with clients and coworkers during times of loss, enroll today! https://resolvethroughsharing.myabsorb.com/ #/catalog/274c9f27-7cf1-4904-93c6-a828fd922a18

Group pricing is available. For more information, contact rts@gundersenhealth.org.

For more information about Compassionate Goodbyes®, visit https://www.compassionategoodbyes.org/.
For more information about Resolve Through Sharing®, visit https://www.resolvethroughsharing.org/.

11/24/2025

Coordinators get 25% off participant practice handbooks through the end of the year! Visit our store to take advantage of this discounted pricing. https://resolvethroughsharing.dcopy.net/category/staff-program-development-resources?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExMW5MalQ4S1FsVU5WNEVLQnNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4Tc7j4sIbV0bHrUw3zzBk5ntRMpghOnAh3kL-g_jBUfIwpJ4nD7yekG_5ecQ_aem_h6zBb6Z8kiWmL2HT0RahwA

11/18/2025

RTS-trained professionals, through the end of November, take $125 off RTS Bereavement Coordinator Certification! This 1-day certification course will teach you everything you need to know to implement a sustainable bereavement care model in your organization. Our final live training of 2025 is December 3, so don't miss out. Use code RTSCBC to register today for only $350!

11/06/2025

To ease some of the pressures of budget restrictions, limited resources for professional development, staffing shortages, and increasingly demanding schedules, we created a learner-directed version of our most esteemed course, RTS Bereavement Training: Perinatal Death! Topics include foundational relationship-based concepts and theories, grief and bereavement, communication skills, meaning-making, perinatal mental health, follow-up, self-care, and more. Complete the course at your own pace in under 10 hours. Get started today! https://resolvethroughsharing.myabsorb.com/ #/curricula/513f519b-ca0d-4093-aebe-82e47822dad2

10/31/2025

As RTS Founders Month comes to a close, Resolve Through Sharing acknowledges the dedicated professionals who are founders of quality bereavement care in their own organizations.

10/27/2025

It’s RTS Founders Month! Did you know…
The RTS leaf and teardrop was designed in 1983, two years after the RTS program began. It was created as an image that would resonate with those experiencing deeply-felt, profound emotions, particularly from the death of someone who brought meaning to their lives. The leaf floating on water represents the dynamic nature of grief, captured in the photo with tiny ripples spreading outward from the leaf. The leaf’s green color represents life, and its upturned edges, hope. The knowledge that the leaf’s color will change with the seasons represents what some call the “seasons of grief,” each season with its own characteristics of sadness and beauty, with hope for a season to come. The drop of water on the leaf, whether its meaning is interpreted as a dewdrop from early morning freshness or the fallen tears of a mourner, draws the viewer into the photo, portraying the complex, yet unavoidable, life experience of loss.

Pictured here are the original drawing (black and white) and the current design (color).

10/20/2025

It’s RTS Founders Month! Did you know…
Resolve Through Sharing was featured in the cover story of a 1993 issue of RN Times, a publication of the Los Angeles Times. The issue highlighted the work of nurses who served at that time as RTS bereavement counselors to help families after the loss of a pregnancy or baby. The story shares the challenges many families faced when well-meaning friends and family members told them to “just forget about it and have another baby.” RTS-trained nurses instead acknowledged the family’s grief, offering support and memory-making opportunities.

At the time of publication, RTS-trained professionals were present in over 1,200 hospitals throughout all 50 states. Now, Resolve Through Sharing has an international presence, with programs or RTS-trained staff not only in all 50 states, but in Canada, Colombia, England, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and more.

10/16/2025

The latest edition of the RTS Connection is out now! Check it out to see what we've been working on. https://resolvethroughsharing.myabsorb.com/files/f12eaf97-8b20-40bf-8e68-2cf8c0a42842/Public/Resources/Fall%202025%20Newsletter.pdf?587

10/15/2025

It means a lot to us when we hear that we've made a difference from other members of the community. Providing evidence-based training and developing grief support resources are some of the ways we try to do our part to support grieving families and loved ones.

Tomorrow evening, we join families around the world for the Global Wave of Light.

On Wednesday, October 15 at 7:00 pm (local time), candles will be lit across every time zone in honor of babies lost too soon — creating a continuous wave of light that encircles the globe.

Our family at Bubba’s Fund will be lighting a candle in memory of Charlie Lonning Weber, and we invite you to do the same — whether in remembrance of a loved one or simply in solidarity with families who have experienced loss.

How to participate:
1️⃣ Light a candle at 7:00 pm local time.
2️⃣ Let it burn (or glow) for at least one hour.
3️⃣ Take a photo or short video and post it using .
4️⃣ Tag so we can share and hold space together.

As we approach tomorrow’s remembrance, we also want to honor the incredible organizations supporting families throughout the year:
• Star Legacy Foundation – advancing research, education, and advocacy around stillbirth and infant loss.
starlegacyfoundation.org
• March of Dimes – improving maternal and infant health and supporting families through every stage of pregnancy.
marchofdimes.org
• Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support, Inc. – providing compassionate peer support to anyone who has experienced pregnancy or infant loss.
nationalshare.org
• Resolve Through Sharing (RTS) – providing education and compassionate support for families experiencing perinatal, neonatal, pediatric, or adult loss, and training healthcare professionals to offer relationship-based bereavement care.
resolvethroughsharing.org
• Sands - baby loss charity (Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Society) – connecting families worldwide through remembrance and awareness. Based in the United Kingdom.
babyloss-awareness.org

Your light — whether shared online or held quietly at home — helps break the silence, honor the love, and bring comfort to those who need it most. 🌈

10/15/2025

Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day—a time to honor babies who have died, to honor parents and loved ones who carry memories of their babies with them, and to bring awareness to pregnancy and infant loss. We encourage everybody to take time to observe this significant day. One way of doing so is by lighting a candle tonight at 7:00 p.m. and letting it burn for at least one hour. People around the world will be participating in this Wave of Light to show love, support, and awareness.