Enhance Your Mortuary Program by Partnering with Passare

As a funeral service educator, you want to train the next generation of funeral professionals and prepare them for the future of funeral service. A lot of planning, teaching, and hard work go into creating a solid curriculum that can best prepare them.

But how often do students get practical experience with all aspects of funeral service?

Educators have found that giving students hands-on experience with funeral home software can be a game-changer in their curriculum.

With the right software platform, students can learn and gain experience that will prepare them for the types of tasks they will perform in the field.

Passare is proud to partner with mortuary schools around the nation to offer our case management software for free! Our goal is to help funeral service educators everywhere give their students a vast amount of classroom experience that will help them be successful right out of school.

In this guide, get answers to questions, such as:

• What is Passare?

• Why partner with Passare?

• How can I use Passare in my curriculum?

• Will my students find it valuable?

You’ll also receive a roadmap for getting started and even more resources.

Let’s dive in!

What is Passare?

Passare is cloud-based funeral home software with built-in case management and business tools. Our software has all of the tools funeral directors need to manage their business and connect with families to plan meaningful funerals.

Here are 3 ways:

1. Increase efficiency: To reduce the time spent on data entry, Passare integrates with dozens of software solutions that funeral directors are already using. This creates a single-entry system that automatically populates data wherever funeral directors need it to go.

2. Provide 24/7 access: With Passare, there's no business task funeral directors can't do from their laptops or phones. With our cloud-based software, funeral directors can experience auto-fill capabilities, ultimate collaboration, financial tools, and reports.

3. Connect with families online: Families’ comfort with online planning has grown by 44% since 2011. With Passare’s Planning Center, families can start planning from the comfort of their own homes, write the obituary, upload photos, make payments, pin merchandise, and more. That way, families are more prepared, and funeral directors have more time to plan a meaningful service.

Now that you have a brief overview of Passare, let's discuss how our software can help the next generation of funeral professionals save time, reduce stress, and stay focused on serving families.

Why partner with Passare?

At Passare, we believe that the profession is losing too many good funeral directors.

In fact, it’s speculated that over half of funeral directors leave the profession after 5 years. Why?

Maybe it’s because they're buried in paperwork, using outdated practices that don’t keep up with changing consumers, or experiencing burnout caused by inefficient processes. All of these issues keep funeral directors busy and prevent them from being able to serve families.

We’re hoping to partner with educators to lower that statistic and better prepare students for a lifelong career in funeral service!

How will our software help?

Passare was created to make mundane tasks more efficient. To make data entry quicker. To make case management simpler. To help funeral professionals be able to access and manage business tasks even when they’re away from the funeral home.

Our hope is that software with these capabilities will allow more talented funeral directors to focus on what they love most: serving families. While in school, students who can get hands-on experience using software gain a wider perspective of what their day-to-day lives could look like.

We’re committed to partnering with mortuary schools to train the next generation of funeral professionals and keep more talented funeral directors who love serving families in their time of need.

With a clear understanding of why we partner with mortuary schools, let’s explore how this software can enhance your curriculum.

How can I use Passare in my curriculum?

There are many ways to use Passare’s software with students. Passare is also very open to adapting the software as needed to fit your program.

Think of Passare as a collaboration tool that allows you to work alongside your students as they mock up at-need cases and walk through the process of completing a case, step by step. This includes:

• Following proper protocol for the first call

• Making arrangements with the family

• Collaborating on the obituary

• Uploading necessary documents and photos

• Printing forms and memorial pieces

• And even working in the preparation room

Take it from Tony Moore, Funeral Service Education Director at Northampton Community College, who said:

“Several of my graduates have told me that their new employers have now switched to Passare after showing them how user-friendly and simple the platform is. For this generation, they are accustomed to using technology like this, and I think it makes for a smoother transition into their future careers.”

Tony Moore, Funeral Service Education Director

Northampton Community College | Bethlehem, PA

There are many other ways to incorporate Passare into your program! You can work with your students to:

• Build general price lists, casket price lists, outer burial container price lists, and more

• Review and discuss forms individually, describing the purpose of each

• Create mock funeral arrangements – like they would do as a funeral director

• Complete embalming and case management reports

• Print for accreditation purposes using the cloud-based system

• Review and “grade” mock-up cases right on the platform

Cody Walker, Dean of Assessment at Pierce Mortuary Colleges, shares the impact of using Passare in their curriculum: 

“For educational purposes, Passare is an invaluable tool. It provides students with hands-on experience in managing funeral services and preparing them for real-world scenarios. The platform's comprehensive features and ease of use make it an ideal teaching tool, allowing students to gain practical skills that will be essential in their future careers of serving families.”

Cody Walker, Dean of Assessment

Pierce Mortuary Colleges | Broadview, IL

Will my students find it valuable?

In 2022, we conducted a study of mortuary students about what they value in an employer. About 65% of students said they were looking to work at tech-savvy funeral homes.

Does that surprise you?

Most mortuary students are in their 20s and 30s, which means they grew up with technology as part of their everyday lives. They’ll want the same technological conveniences to help them do their jobs efficiently.

Passare helps students apply the processes they need to learn the right way from the very beginning of their careers. In addition, students who have been trained with Passare graduate with exceptional skills and confidence in their ability to perform all aspects of the job.

Here is what Nick Ricci, Funeral Service Educator at Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, says about his experience using Passare with his students:

“We mostly use Passare in tandem with another exercise that we do at the school. Every year, we do something called “Mock Removal Day,” a project that involves a 250-pound fire rescue mannequin that we place in different scenarios around the building. The students have to come in and do a mock transfer of the deceased. They have to take the death call, move their cot and equipment onto whatever floor the mannequin is on, and then perform the transfer.”

Nick Ricci, Funeral Service Educator

Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science | Pittsburgh, PA

With Passare, you can give students hands-on experience with a digital platform to help them better prepare to work in a funeral home. It’s a win-win!