MISSION
PLIDA supports health care practitioners and parent-advocates in their efforts to improve care for families who experience the death of a baby during pregnancy, birth, or infancy.

VISION
PLIDA’s overriding goal is to support those whose work supports bereaved families.

PLIDA does this through:

NETWORKING

• Being a professional membership organization for health care practitioners and parent-advocates.

• Providing opportunities for members to share support, resources, and information on implementing the highest standards of perinatal bereavement care.

• Collaborating with allied organizations.

EDUCATION

• Producing position statements on the emotional aspects of perinatal bereavement care in clinical settings.

• Producing practice guidelines that illustrate relationship-based bereavement care.

• Maintaining a comprehensive list of resources online.

• Sponsoring a biennial international conference.

ADVOCACY

• Promoting the provision of comprehensive care for bereaved families across the continuum of childbearing.