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Improving Our Approach: Better Conversations About Breastfeeding

This webinar provides approaches and strategies health professionals can use to help mothers open up about the challenges they face when breastfeeding. By understanding those challenges, we can better provide the supports they need.

Viewers will walk away with insight on:

  • The supports and barriers facing breastfeeding mothers
  • Methods to identify breastfeeding concerns 
  • Conversational approaches to better identify and engage with breastfeeding concerns
  • Methods for inspiring behavioral change

The webinar concludes with a role-play scenario so attendees can see how to put these approaches into action.

Date
Length

1 hour

Moderator

Elizabeth Coté, MD, MPA, NICHQ Chief Health Officer

Speakers

Lori Feldman-Winter, MD, MPH

Suzanne Bronheim, PhD

Rebekka Henriksen

Lisa Bailey

Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

How can we break the cycle of addiction and improve health for moms and babies? Experts discuss the benefits of universal screening for opioid use in the prenatal period and identify best practices of caring for a mother during the prenatal period. Specifically, viewers will learn about: 

  • Overview of the continuum of care for mothers and infants
  • Patient story 
  • Evidenced based recommendations and strategies to identify mothers and infants at risk
  • Standardized management of mothers and infants optimizing a non-pharmacologic care bundle
  • Importance of maternal involvement in care

This webinar is provided by the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

Date
Length

1 hour

Moderator

Elizabeth Coté, MD, MPA, NICHQ Chief Health Officer

Speakers

Jennifer Sock

Ron Iverson, MD, MPH

Mike Marcotte, MD

Moira Crowley, MD

Elisha Wachman, MD

Title V Alignment

  • Become familiar with AMCHP and SPHARC as resources for your work
  • Get a snapshot of how Title V program activities fit into the goals of the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network 
  • Learn how two of your Title V colleagues are implementing their NPM 6 activities
Length

1 hour

Engaging Families from Diverse Backgrounds with Developmental Screening and Child Well-Being

Developmental screenings can change children’s lives. Screenings help ensure early diagnosis so that children with disabilities can receive the right care at the right time. Find out how to engage families from diverse backgrounds and improve screenings in your state. Listeners will walk away from the webinar with the strategies, tools and resources they need to increase family engagement and improve their developmental screening process.

Length

1.5 hours

Improving Safe Sleep Conversations: Strategies for Helping Families Adopt Safe Sleep Habits

Stacy Scott, PhD, MPA, founder of the Global Infant Safe Sleep Center, leads a series of role playing exercises where she demonstrates tactics to engage families from different backgrounds in meaningful conversations about safe sleep. These actionable skills will benefit all health professionals, human service providers, community health workers, home visitors, peer supporters and family members working to improve infant health outcomes.

Date
Length

1 hour

Moderator

Jennifer Ustianov, MS, BSN, RN, IBCLC

Speakers

Stacy Scott, PhD, MPA

Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program Webinar: Strategies and Next Steps for Improving Sickle Cell Disease

Learn about the impact of the 2014-2017 Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program Webinar (SCDTDP), which marked the first time in U.S. history that improvements in SCD care were tackled on a large, regional and national scale. 

Length

1 hour

Speakers

Suzette Oyeku, MD, MPH

Engaging Senior Leadership in Your Quality Improvement (QI) Work

In partnership with the Public Health Quality Improvement Exchange (PHQIX), NICHQ's webinar offers insight on how to engage senior leaders in quality improvement work

Length

1 hour

Speakers

Meghan Johnson, MSc

Ty Kane, MPH

Aligning State and Local Health Departments to Improve Maternal and Child Health

This webinar is part of the Expert Series on Addressing Infant Mortality. The multi-part webinar series is an opportunity for public health professionals to hear experts and influencers in the maternal and child health field share examples and best practices for supporting efforts to reduce infant mortality and improve maternal and infant health. 

Length

1 hour

Speakers

Monica Beltran, MPH

Jessica Ehule, MS MSPH

Kara Foster, MPH

Denise Pecha, LCSW

Anne Statton

Co-Sponsorship
Citymatch

The Prematurity Campaign Collaborative

This webinar is part of the Expert Series on Addressing Infant Mortality. The multi-part webinar series is an opportunity for public health professionals to hear experts and influencers in the maternal and child health field share examples and best practices for supporting efforts to reduce infant mortality and improve maternal and infant health. 

Length

1 hour

Speakers

Lisa Waddell, MD, MPH

Paul Jarris, MD, MBA

Co-Sponsorship
march of dimes

Exploring State Medicaid Performance Measures, Improvement Projects and Incentives to Promote Improvement in Women’s Health Services and Perinatal Outcomes

This webinar is part of the Expert Series on Addressing Infant Mortality. The multi-part webinar series is an opportunity for public health professionals to hear experts and influencers in the maternal and child health field share examples and best practices for supporting efforts to reduce infant mortality and improve maternal and infant health.

Length

1 hour

Speakers

Makalah Wagner, MSW

Mike Herndon, DO

Co-Sponsorship
NASHP