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The 2022 Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinars are available for you to watch wherever and whenever convenient for you in an effort to make free continuing education more accessible in response to participant feedback.
A new webinar launches on the 3rd Tuesday of each month and will be available for viewing for up to 12 months after the initial air date.
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Birth Workers Serving Birth Workers: An Abundance of Self-love, Community, and Grace presented by Jennifer Day, IBCLC
Registration now open!
Description from our presenter: "Doulas and lactation supporters serve families from a place of deep care, safety, commitment and passion, centering the needs of families in hopes that they’ll have positive birth and breastfeeding experiences. For Black and Indigenous birthing and lactating families, this type of care reduces maternal and infant mortality rates. This can also increase the allostatic load and weathering effect for Black and Indigenous birth workers as they work toward liberation and changing the very trajectory of birthing outcomes for Black and Indigenous families. With that burden comes a whole community of other birth workers that show up for one another, care for one another, and hold one another accountable. Caring for one’s self while caring for others is a necessity and community has always shown the way in finding the balance needed."
Objectives:
- Understand the disproportionate impact of weathering and allostatic load among Black and Indigenous birth workers
- Consider the mental, emotional and social costs when the expectation of decreasing disparity gaps are placed on Black and Indigenous birth workers
- Analyze the intersections of racism, COVID-19, social injustice, and life circumstances among birth workers while they continue to serve communities
Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until December 18, 2023.
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Current Webinar Offerings to Watch Whenever and Wherever for Free Continuing Education:
How to Navigate Lactation Support with Partner presented by Natosha Sage-El Bylsma, BA, IBCLC: This presentation will focus on those who serve as lactating supporters; the ways in which they can best support their partners; and how breastfeeding providers can support both people as they navigate the feeding journey. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until December 21, 2022. Register here.
Meeting Families Where They Are: Embracing, Respecting, Supporting, and Listening presented by Rickeshia Williams, CLS, CLC, BD, CBE: This presentation will focus on how to service and support lactating families where they are and for who they are in order to provide services that cater to the families and community you serve. Families must feel accepted, supported, and respected along every step of their breastfeeding journey. Changing breastfeeding outcomes and improving health begins with listening to and addressing the needs of the community. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until December 28, 2022. Register here.
Human Lactation and Mental Health: Best Practices presented by Tameka Jackson-Dyer, BASc, IBCLC, CHW, Rosa Gardiner, RN, IBCLC, Mistel de Varona, IBCLC, and Kara Smith, BSN, RN, CLC, PMH-C: The healing powers of human milk are well-known, but not much attention has been paid to the mental strain that can occur while trying to provide that milk without education and support from healthcare providers. The adjustments in the postpartum period brought on by hormones, lack of sleep, body changes and acclimating to the 24-hour care of a tiny human can be difficult for many birthing people. Add a pandemic to the mix with the added stresses and isolation from support systems, and you have a recipe for serious mental health issues. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until February 15, 2023. Register here.
Geographies of Breastfeeding: How The Nooni Project Helps Reclaim Breastfeeding in Indigenous Communities presented by Angie Sanchez, MBA, IBC: Breastfeeding in Native American cultures is often viewed as ceremony and thus an act of resilience; however, due to the effects of historical trauma, this ceremonial act has been lost. Breastfeeding is important for maternal and infant health by providing physiological and psychological short-term and long-term benefits, such as the prevention of infectious and chronic diseases and improvements in mental health, family bonding, and a return of societal values. The Nooni Project aims to train community Indigenous Breastfeeding Counselors and local health care providers in breastfeeding best practices, who will thereby teach families and community members about breastfeeding in a culturally appropriate way that meets the health and social needs of tribal communities in Michigan. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until March 15, 2023. Register here.
Honoring Indigenous Parenthood from Conception through Postpartum presented by Lindsey McGahey, IBC, IFSD, BE: This presentation focuses on the world of birth work and lactation care from the sacred ceremonies of Indigenous conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, lactation, and parenting. We will honor a view rarely seen and often buried from Indigenous voices in hopes to further protect these ceremonies as sacred and mitigate the health risks in Indigenous communities by highlighting the importance of “by us for us” care. Indigenous birthing bodies are sacred. Indigenous birth workers are sacred. Indigenous parenthood is sacred. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until April 19, 2023. Register here.
Human Milk and Immunizations presented by Tameka Jackson-Dyer, BASc, IBCLC, CHW and Shonte’ Terhune-Smith, BS, IBCLC, CLS, BD: Due to the historical abuse and misuse of Black bodies by the healthcare system, the distrust of medical providers runs deep in the Black community. In the midst of the current pandemic, the disproportionate death rate for Black families and lack of timely access to care has increased this distrust. Public health messaging around the COVID-19 vaccine has not taken these realities into account and thus has fallen short of reaching the families that are most at risk. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until May 17, 2023. Register here.
Lactation and Grief after Perinatal, Neonatal, or Infant Loss presented by Anesha Stanley, CD, BD, PCD, CCE: Whether or not breastfeeding was planned, losing a baby any time after 16-18 weeks gestation may still lead to milk coming into the breasts. This can be a traumatizing experience for parents grieving a baby. Offering lactation support for those experiencing loss has long been overlooked and is crucial to overall health. Mothers have the right to choose how to handle this delicate situation. With so many other decisions that have to be made immediately following a loss, some grieving parents have no idea what they will be facing when it comes to postpartum, their breasts, and human milk. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until June 21, 2023. Register here.
Barriers in Birth: The Fight for Community Based Doulas and Black Birth Equity presented by Kiara Baskin, CD, CLC: Community Based Doulas (CBDs) serve communities and help to address health disparities during pregnancy and birth, especially for families of color. Evidence consistently demonstrates that Black and Indigenous families experience significant disparities in pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality. CBDs provide accessible, high-quality labor support to childbearing families with the goal of mitigating racial and ethnic disparities in pregnancy-related outcomes. As they work to improve perinatal health, doulas are providing equity work while facing inequitable systems with little support. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until July 26, 2023. Register here.
Immunizations Guidance for Lactating Families presented by Shonte’ Terhune-Smith, BS, IBCLC, CLS, BD: COVID-19 immunizations guidance has evolved throughout the pandemic as new information has become available. At present, there is consensus among the major public health organizations (WHO and CDC included) that COVID-19 vaccines are a safe and effective tool to protect pregnant and breastfeeding people against COVID-19. This presentation will ensure we, and the families we serve, are clear on the role of doulas, birth workers, and lactation supporters, in supporting families while centering the health disparities in saving Black and Indigenous lives. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 Community Health Worker CEU, 1 Certified Health Education Specialist CECH, and 1 CME until August 16, 2023. Register here.
Navigating New Motherhood as a Birth/Breastfeeding Worker by Tameka White, CLS: This presentation will include what receiving lactation support both in the hospital and in the community looks like and how the lived experience of many BIPOC lactation/birth workers intersects with that of the families they serve. The presenter will share takeaways as both a new mother and birth worker, working to create balance and reconcile feelings of guilt about new physical and emotional limitations both professional and personal. Overall, more work needs to be done around providing quality care during the fourth trimester. Approved 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 community health worker CEU, 1 certified health education specialist CECH, and 1 CME until September 18, 2023. Register here.
Feed the Baby: Lactation, Contamination, and the American Formula Crisis presented by Tameka L. Jackson-Dyer, BASc, IBCLC, CHW: The first rule of lactation is to feed the baby, which can often mean supplementing with formula. The shutdown of a major formula factory due to contamination, which resulted in the illness and death of up to nine infants, served to amplify what many in the lactation field had been sharing for years. Our reliance on artificial breastmilk substitutes as the main source of infant feeding, along with governmental programs that create monopolies in production was unsustainable and dangerous. We will explore how the failure of our government and healthcare system to support lactating people in meeting the human-milk feeding goals set out by the CDC, WHO and other entities, left many families with no resources to feed their babies. Approved for 1 E-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 community health worker CEU, 1 certified health education specialist CECH, and 1 CME until October 16, 2023. Register here.
The Importance of Lactation Counseling through an Equity Lens presented presented by Lindsey McGahey, IFSD, IBC, BE: This webinar will present a vision of past, present, and future implications of equity-centered lactation counseling that speaks to families in diverse modalities. Participants will learn strategies for serving families in new ways. Approved for 1 L-CERP, 1 nurse’s contact hour, 1 social work CE hour, 1 dietitian CPEU, 1 community health worker CEU, 1 certified health education specialist CECH, and 1 CME until November 13, 2023. Register here.
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About the Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinars:
These webinars are designed to support practice change among peer counselors, maternity care nurses, and home visitors. In providing these webinars, we are committed to 4 core values: access, evidence, equity, and relevance.
In planning and implementation of these webinars, we are grounding our efforts in this working definition of racial equity:
Disparities in breastfeeding are perpetuated by inequities that have historically and currently centered white people and their experiences. Racial equity in breastfeeding is both a process and an outcome. The process of working towards racial equity in breastfeeding involves purposefully decentering white supremacy and colonialism, including the notion that whiteness is the standard of normalcy, beauty, superiority, and centrality in our society. This process involves trusting Black and Indigenous families, elevating their voices, and investing in their communities. The outcome of racial equity is the adoption of breastfeeding-supportive policies and practices that eliminate negative health outcomes caused by systemic racism and realized when the social construct of race is no longer a predictor of breastfeeding outcomes.
We are grateful to partner with Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Health and Wellness with support provided by Indiana Department of Public Health, Ohio Department of Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Illinois Department of Public Health, Minnesota Department of Health, Connecticut Department of Public Health WIC Division, and the Tyler Rigg Foundation to offer this series and make it FREE to participate.
Learn more at mibreastfeeding.org/webinars.
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