BREASTFEEDING & PARENTING
CONFERENCES - MEETINGS

Dr. Peter Hartmann with DLCA members &
local IBCLC's Diana, Sharon & Linda

Dallas Lactation Consultant Association (DLCA)
(an I.L.C.A. Affiliate)

Contact Judy Eastburn, IBCLC (972-931-5578)
for ILCA Affiliate or Program information

2008 Meetings held at:

Fogelson Forum Building
Ground Floor Classroom C
Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Complex
8200 Walnut Hill Lane
Dallas, Tx 75231

JAN 31    Mar 27     May 29    Jul 24    Sep 25    Nov 20

Dallas Area Breastfeeding Alliance

The Dallas Area Breastfeeding Alliance (DABA) currently
holds meetings the 1st Tuesday of each month from 12 - 1pm
with a goal of the promotion of breastfeeding and education by
local professionals. http://www.dallasbreastfeeding.org

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The Dallas Area Breastfeeding Alliance is an inclusive group of breastfeeding supporters. We strive to promote breastfeeding
as the birthright of every child.

Our Mission
The mission of the Dallas Area Breastfeeding Alliance is to protect, promote,
and support breastfeeding in Dallas, Texas and the United States.
The DABA exists to ensure the rightful place of breastfeeding in society.
The DABA works to achieve the following goals:
GOAL I: Increase access to comprehensive, current, and culturally appropriate lactation care and services for all women, children, and families.
GOAL II: Ensure that breastfeeding is recognized as the normal and preferred
method of feeding and nurturing infants and young children.
GOAL III: Ensure that all state and local laws relating to child welfare and family
law recognize and support the importance and practice of breastfeeding.
GOAL IV: Increase protection, promotion, and support for breastfeeding mothers
in the work force.

September 2003, which are adapted from the USBC goals. http://www.usbreastfeeding.org/

The DABA is a volunteer, non-profit group.

 

Childbirth & Postpartum Professional Association (CAPPA)

Contact: Michele Weatherford, Trainer - 661.860.1675 yourbirthyourway@aol.com
Cost: $350 Register: www.andthencamebaby.com

What You Will Learn:
* Goals/Roles of the Lactation Educator
* Historical Look at Breastfeeding
* Anatomical, Physiological, & Hormonal Aspects of Lactation
* Benefits of Breastfeeding/Hazards of Formula Feeding
* Successful Starts with Breastfeeding
* Working with the Hospital
* Maternal/Infant Challenges
* Pumping/Expressing Breastmilk
* Medications and Mothers Milk
* Fathers/Partners and Breastfeeding
* Teaching To Adult Learners
* Marketing Your Practice

Benefits of this program:
* You can teach in a variety of settings, from private classes to hospital
* You will understand the necessity of advocacy, promotion and support
of breastfeeding
* You will be able to market and target your audience
* You will begin the process of certification with CAPPA

For complete certification information, see www.cappa.net
-Michele Weatherford- CD, CPD, CLE, CTSP, CCCE DASC
Director of Membership CAPPA Director of Lactation Programs
CAPPA Postpartum Doula Trainer, CAPPA Lactation Educator Trainer
Santa Clarita, CA 661.860.1675 www.andthencamebaby.com

Hartmann/Hale Human Lactation Research Conference

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2009 Registration
Conference - Jun 4-5-6, 2009
Amarillo, Texas

Thomas W. Hale, Ph.D.
Present Position:
Professor of Pediatrics Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Department of Pediatrics
Texas Tech University School of Medicine

Professor Peter Hartmann, Ph.D.
Present Position Professor in Biochemistry -The University of Western Australia Honorary Research Fellow - Hannah Research Institute (UK)
Visiting Professor - Kagawa Nutrition University, Sakado, Japan Adjunct Professor - Department of Medical Imaging Science, School of Physical Sciences, Curtin University of Technology

Join the scientists as they present and interpret cutting-edge breastfeeding research. For more information, visit hhttp://www.ibreastfeeding.com/pages/conference.html

Inova Learning Network

.....is offering the following courses
(all located in metro Washington DC)

Lactation Management Courses Directed By Vergie Hughes

Prepare for a career as a lactation consultant or upgrade your breastfeeding support skills for your current position. Learn from a
group of the most dedicated, experienced and well-respected lactation consultants, clinicians, researchers and authors in the nation. Inova Learning Network offers a program that will meet your personal and professional goals!

• Lactation Consultant Training
• Clinical Internship
• Lactation Management Expert Series
• Breastfeeding Specialist (NICU Specialist, Inpatient Specialist, Outpatient Specialist)
  

For more information, please call the Inova Learning Network at
703-776-3160 or e-mail candice.sullivan@inova.com.

Texas Department of State Health Services
Breastfeeding Training Courses

Principals of Lactation Management

Breastfeeding Trainings:
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/wichd/lactate/courses.shtm

Sponsored by
The Department of State Health Services and TALWD

Objectives

• To increase health-care providers’ knowledge of the need
  to promote and support breastfeeding.
• To increase health-care providers’ knowledge of breastfeeding
  management.
• To promote consistency of information given to breastfeeding mothers.
• To encourage the adoption of policies that promote and support breastfeeding.
• To encourage communities to work together to promote and
  support breastfeeding.

These courses are designed to prepare health-care providers to appropriately and adequately support breastfeeding women and
their infants. The material is presented at a level to fill the gaps in professional education. DSHS believes that a positive, proactive
approach to breastfeeding promotion and support can only be
achieved through team effort. Thus, all levels of health-care
workers directly affecting breastfeeding women and their infants
are encouraged to attend.

Questions or comments about DSHS Breastfeeding Training Courses
should be directed to: Hellen Sullivan (512) 458-7111 ext.3598 or
(512) 458-7609.

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Peer Counselor Trainer Workshop:

Questions about the Peer Counselor Trainer Workshop: Jewell Stremler jewell.stremler@dshs.state.tx.us

The purpose of LLLI's Peer Counselor program is to develop support
systems within targeted communities that will provide ongoing access
to breastfeeding information and support by training those interested
in learning more about breastfeeding promotion, management, support
and techniques to help mothers breastfeed. These courses offer ideal instruction for those who wish to support, protect and promote
breastfeeding such as nurses, midwives, dietitians, childbirth educators,
doulas, social workers, teachers, corporate human services personnel,
health-care service office personnel, mothers, grandparents and
breastfeeding peer counselors.

NOTE: The Texas Department of Health (TDH) has merged with other agencies and is now part of the new Department of State Health
Services (DSHS), resulting in the following e-mail address format
change for all employees: firstname.lastname@dshs.state.tx.us.

International Lactation Consultants Association [ILCA]

Check out ILCA's Worldwide Education Calendar for
Breastfeeding Education Events All Over The World!

ILCA / USLCA Conference and Annual Meeting

One Voice, Uniting the Profession - Practice, Professionalism, Policy

July 23-27, 2008
Red Rock Resort, Spa and Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Please keep up to date at the ILCA Website: www.ilca.org

 

VELB / ILCA Conference and Annual Meeting:
October 1-3, 2008

A World Wide View on Breastfeeding

Austria Center
Vienna, Austria
www.velb.org
www.ilca.org
www.km-potsdam.de

 

La Leche League International

Lactation Specialist Workshops

"Breastfeeding: Evidenced-Based Success"
Dates and Locations details at:
http://www.lalecheleague.org/EdLactSpec04.html

The ongoing series of Lactation Specialist Workshops are designed for nurses, physicians and lactation specialists who work in a variety of settings including hospitals, clinics and physicians' offices.

The workshops provide a post-graduate course for lactation specialists
on current breastfeeding information, and the skills and tools needed to assist breastfeeding mothers in prenatal and postnatal situations.

Note: For the past 46 years, La Leche League International has been assisting mothers to breastfeed their babies. La Leche League is recognized as the world's foremost authority on breastfeeding: educating lactation consultants, physicians, peer counselors, LLL Leaders, dietitians, nurses, and parents.

LLLI provides this series of lactation workshops for the individual who desires more specific expertise in the field of lactation. With increasing rates of breastfeeding initiation, it is essential that lactation specialists have access to the skills, information, and education that will enable
them to meet the needs of mothers and babies.

By developing a knowledge base you can help to assist mothers in achieving their goals will result in increased breastfeeding duration.

Breastfeeding Outlook

Marie Biancuzzo's Lactation Exam Review Course

Check website for future course dates

Prepare for your lactation exam review with an intensive, two-day
"crash course" designed to help you tackle even the toughest topics
with confidence! Review pertinent facts and principles related to all 14 categories of the IBLCE exam in an interactive and responsive learning environment. Learn effective test-taking strategies, engage in discussion of clinical scenarios, and get help interpreting more than 150 pictures in this seminar.

This is the only course where you'll get an individualized assessment
with an on-the-spot,computer-generated analysis of your strengths
and weaknesses for the exam. You'll also get a study guide with practice questions, a 150-page binder of reference materials, and a one-year subscription to the Breastfeeding Outlook newsletter.
(Note: The required text, Breastfeeding the Newborn: Clinical Strategies for Nurses is not included in the registration fee.)

barbara@breastfeedingoutlook.com
Printable registration form and further information:
http://www.breastfeedingoutlook.com

Breastfeeding Outlook - Ethics Course

"When Ethics and Evidence Collide: Solving Breastfeeding
Problems" with Marie Biancuzzo, RN MS IBCLC

Check website for future course dates

Goal:
To integrate ethical standards and principles into lactation practice. Objectives:
- Describe obstacles to and facilitators of the classic ethical principles associated with health care.
- Recognize how the sale and marketing of commercial feeding products
poses a conflict of interest and an ethical dilemma for the health care provider.
- Debate whether informed consent should be obtained for common
perinatal practices that have a negative impact on breastfeeding
(e.g., supplementation, circumcision, maternal epidural anesthesia).
- Using real-life scenarios, identify possible obstacles to ethical
decisions and choose ethical courses of action.
- Recognize and avoid common violations of intellectual property rights.

Continuing Education Credit:
Approved for
7.0 contact hours for nurses (ANA),
6.0 CPEs at level II for dietitians and DTRs (CDR), and
7.0 E-CERPs (IBLCE).
No partial credit will be awarded. You must attend the entire seminar
to receive a certificate.
NOTE: Beginning in 2007, IBCLCs recertifying by Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) will be required to have at least 5 (but no
more than 25) of their 75 total CERPs address professional ethics.
The 7.0 credits awarded for this seminar satisfy the requirement.

Fee:
$99 (earlybird) $115 Regular Registration
See brochure for registration & cancellation deadlines

registrar@breastfeedingoutlook.com Online registration is now available: Printable registration form and further information:

Marie Biancuzzo, RN MS IBCLC, is the author of Breastfeeding the Newborn: Clinical Strategies for Nurses as well as more than 100 articles which have been published in some of the leading journals. She has practiced in perinatal healthcare for over two decades, mostly in hospitals. Editor of the quarterly newsletter, Breastfeeding Outlook, and a founding member of the United States Breastfeeding Committee, Marie is currently President of Baby-Friendly USA. She teaches Marie Biancuzzo's Lactation Exam Review in more than a dozen cities each year. Evidence for your practice starts here ...

barbara@breastfeedingoutlook.com
Printable registration form and further information:
http://www.breastfeedingoutlook.com

The Center for Breastfeeding -

a major focus of the Healthy Children Project Inc

Lactation Counselor Certificate Training Program (CLC)

This comprehensive, 5 day breastfeeding management course includes practical skills, theoritical foundations, strategies and tips for the management of breastfeeding in the hospital, public health setting and
the community within the context of counseling the mother.

Course content is guided by the Standards of Practice for Lactation Counsultants developed by the International Lactation Consultant Association and the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.

Successful completion results in the award of a certificate (CLC).

The Healthy Children Project is a non-profit research and educational institution dedicated to improving child health outcomes in partnership with private, public and non-profit agencies.

Please visit our website at www.healthychildren.cc for more information.
The Center for Breastfeeding Healthy Children 8 Jan Sebastian Way
#13 Sandwich, MA 02563 phone 508 888 8044 (M-F 9-4:30 Eastern Time)
fax 508 888 8050 (24 hour fax line) email info@healthychildren.cc

Course Descriptions at: www.healthychildren.cc/COURSES.HTM

Lactation Consultant Preparation Programs

Lactation Education Consultants
$785, but for those registering one month or more prior to the start of
the course, price is $735. For four or more attendees from the same institution, paying by check or money order, please contact LEC for discount information

*The core Lactation Consultant Preparation Program provides 47 clock
hours (56.4 CERPS/CEUS). Completion of a pre-course reading option and post-course practicum equals 45 contact hours 54 independent CERPS.
An additional fee is assessed for evaluation/grading of this optional independent study. Contact LECoffice@aol.com for more information.

For more information, please see our website or contact me:
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, RLC: ph 630.260.4847; email LECoffice@aol.com
Lactation Education Consultants Phone: 630-260-4847 (Central Time)
Fax: 630-260-8879 - or go to: www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

Lamaze Breastfeeding Support Specialist

18 Lamaze Contact Hours
18 Nursing Contact Hours
18 L IBLCE CERPs
An application for 18 contact hours has been made to ICEA
16 CDR Category II CE Hours

The Lamaze Breastfeeding Support Specialist workshop is designed for Childbirth Educators, Hospital-or community-based health professionals, Individuals interested in pursuing accreditation as a Lactation Consultants, Women who want to support other women both prenatally and during the early postpartum period

On the second day of this workshop, Lamaze offers the opportunity to work hands-on with breastfeeding dyads. A certificate of completion does not imply certification as a lactation consultant. Continuing education credits from this workshop can be used to satisfy some, but not all, requirements for certification as a lactation consultant.

Instructors: Lamaze International selects only instructors who have the knowledge, expertise and teaching ability to provide you with the best learning opportunity. Based upon location and availability, your workshop will be presented by two of the following instructors:

http://www.lamaze.org/eventsnews/CE.asp