Programs

Families experiencing pregnancy loss and infant death are too often placed in general waiting areas within birthing centers—spaces filled with the sounds and celebrations of new life. In the midst of profound grief, this contrast can deepen their pain and sense of isolation at an already devastating time.

Jane’s Room exists to change that experience. Our nonprofit is dedicated to creating compassionate, private spaces of respite within hospitals for families facing loss. Through our Rooms of Respite Program, we partner with healthcare institutions to thoughtfully design and install calming, supportive environments that offer privacy, dignity, and emotional refuge during the earliest moments of grief.

These spaces provide families with options, flexibility, and the opportunity to begin processing their loss in a setting that acknowledges their experience with care and compassion. By expanding rooms of respite in hospitals across the country, Jane’s Room is helping ensure that no grieving family is left to navigate one of life’s most difficult moments in a space that does not honor their loss.

Through Jane’s Room, we are doing more than creating physical spaces — we are advancing a movement to ensure that families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss are met with compassionate, skilled care and treated with the dignity they deserve when the unimaginable happens.

Through an innovative partnership between Jane’s Room and Return to Zero: HOPE — a nationally recognized leader in pregnancy and infant loss support — we bring together evidence-based education and highly customized training. Our approach is responsive to the unique patient population, clinical setting, and culture of each hospital, strengthening and elevating perinatal bereavement programs for both staff and the families they serve.

The Jane’s Room Center of Excellence — a comprehensive online learning and collaboration platform — equips partner hospitals with:

• Multidisciplinary staff trainings offering continuing education credits

• Monthly roundtable discussions to foster peer connection and shared learning

• A monthly expert-led webinar series

• Real-time access to national experts and fellow partner hospitals

• Evidence-informed toolkits for best practice following pregnancy and infant loss

• An online resource library and on-demand training modules

• Staff well-being frameworks, debriefing models, and resilience-building activities

• One-on-one bereavement program consulting

Together, we are building sustainable systems of care that support clinicians and ensure no family walks through loss without compassion, competence, and community.