MCCPM Continuing Education Conference
Harriet Alexander Nature Center
2520 Dale St N, Roseville, MN 55113, USA
Minnesota
45.0166603
-93.126251
Description
Join us for the Minnesota Council of Professional Midwives Summer Continuing Education Conference for two full days of education relevant to the practice of midwifery in out of hospital settings plus optional pre-conference NRP training or an IV workshop for OOH proviiders. This CEU opportunity is affordably priced, full of practical information as well as opportunities for networking and fellowship with other midwives from Minnesota and the upper Midwest.Below is a schedule of events.Please click on the links to read about our excellent speakers.Friday8:00-9:00 am Registration, Light Breakfast9:00-9:15 am Welcome/Logistics9:15-12:30 A Morning of Color-Brave Conversations with Marijke van Roojen and Wendy Gordonor8:30-12:00 Birthworkers of Color Caucus/Roots Community Birth Center Tour and Breakfast with Rebecca Polston12:30-2pm Lunch2:00-3:30 Advanced Lactation Skills for Midwives: Assessment and Treatment of Lip and Tongue Tie with Aszani Stoddard3:30-3:45 Break3:45-5:15 IIntermittent Auscultation in Labor: Research and Practice Updatess with Wendy GordonAfter Conference Happy Hour: Location TBASaturday8:00-9:00 am Registration/Check-In, Light Breakfast9:00-9:15 am Welcome/Logistics9:15-10:45 Advanced Suturing Skills for Midwives with Aszani Stoddard10:45-11 Break11:00-12:30 Is this Safe to Take in Pregnancy? Safe use of Herbs, Research and Traditional Practice with Erin Piorier12:30-2pm Lunch2:00-3:30 Marketing for Birth Professionals with Liz Hockman3:30-3:45 Break3:45-5:15 Healing Birth Stories for Professionals with Maureen CampionFees, Scholarships, CEUs, Cancellation etc.What's included in your fee? Conference Admission fee includes coffee, tea, light breakfast and lunch on both Friday and Saturday. Vegetarian and gluten-free options will be available. MEAC CEU certificates will be provided and CEU fees are included in the price of registration.Scholarships are available for People of Color or LGBTQ people who are midwifery students enrolled in a training program or school or who are actively apprenticing. Please contact Erin for more information. herbalisterin@outlook.comWorkstudy: A limited number of positions are available. Please contact Erin for more details. herbalisterin@outlook.comBabies and Children: Infants in arms are welcome to attend with a registered parent. Please make alternate childcare arrangements for toddlers and older children in order to help us create an optimal learning environment for all registrants.Cancellation Policy: We understand that midwives sometimes can't attend scheduled events due to the uncertain nature of birthwork. Registrants who cancel by contacting event organizers via phone or email up to 48 hours before the start of the event will receive a full refund. Cancellations made less than 48 hours before the event or no call/no shows the day of the event will also be refunded $50 per single day of conference missed or $100 for both days. ____________________________________________________________________________________Workshop DescriptionsAdvanced Lactation Skills for Midwives: Assessment and Treatment of Lip and Tongue Tie with Aszani Stoddard This session will teach you how to assess for and support infants with lip and tongue ties. Treatment, feeding and referral options will be covered. There will be lots of visuals to help you recognize ties when you see them.Advanced Suturing Skills for Midwives with Aszani Stoddard Home birth midwives tend to see fewer tears than than other birth providers, for a variety of reasons. This is a good thing, but can make challenging tears difficult to navigate.This workshop is designed to discuss the more difficult tears, including complicated deep second degree perineal, sulcus and deep peri-urethral tears.The focus will be on assessing and repairing complex tears, and will include suture and equipment selection, anesthesia infiltration, repair and charting the repair. We will also review when to transfer to the hospital for suturing by a physician.We will use chicken breasts for practice. If you are brand-new to suturing, you are welcome to come practice, but this workshop is designed for those who already possess basic suturing skills. Please bring your suturing equipment with you.Birthworkers of Color Caucus/Roots Community Birth Center Tour and Breakfast with Rebecca PolstonMCCPM recognizes the importance of offering a workshop like A Morning of Color Brave Conversations for members and participants to explore issues of heritage, race, privilege and oppression. MCCPM also recognizes that like the broader community of midwives and birthworkers across the United States our regional community is largely comprised of white birthworkers. MCCPM recognizes that birthworkers of color may not feel safe or comfortable for a variety of reasons participating in the Morning of Color: Brave Conversations workshop. We are offering an optional, alternative (and hopefully fun!) activity for birthworkers of color, should they desire to participate.Join Rebecca Polston for a morning of fellowship and networking at the Roots Community Birth Center. Rebecca is Minnesota's first and only African American CPM and the founder and owner of Roots Community Birth Center. Roots is located in the diverse neighborhood of North Minneapolis and Rebecca offer safe, affordable, culturally competent care. Rebecca is committed to a vision of midwifery care that works toward the elimination of health care disparities in our communities. Rebecca is also engaged in training midwives and birth assistants of color to help create a meaningful diverse body of out of hospital birthworkers who can offer affirming care in the community. The morning will include a tour of the birth center and breakfast. Participants will reconvene at the nature center site for lunch and the afternoon sessions.Healing Birth Stories for Professionals with Maureen Campion While we know how joyous and beautiful birth can be, we also know that about 10-15% of women experience something traumatic at birth. Birth trauma impacts mothers, babies and those that care for them. Maureen has been offering her Healing Birth Stories workshop for 7 years and offers compassionate and effective tools to support both survivors and the professionals that work in this field. Come join us as we delve into the tough emotions around birth and explore our own trauma while looking at healing and transforming the stories we carry around birth.Intermittent Auscultation in Labor: Research and Practice Updates with Wendy GordonIntermittent auscultation (IA) in labor is standard in most home and birth center midwifery practices. But how consistent are we in the way that we use IA across our profession? What does the research say about best practices? There are currently no consistent guidelines on how to categorize FHR findings when documenting IA. This session will describe what the current research does and does not tell us, review professional guidelines, discuss various procedures for performing IA in labor, and propose methods for charting your findings. Participants will put their skills to the test in case presentations.Is this Safe to Take in Pregnancy? Safe use of Herbs, Research and Traditional Practice with Erin PiorierMany midwives incorporate medicinal herbs into their practices. Even those who don’t may frequently be asked by clients if a particular botanical medicine is safe to take while pregnant. In this workshop we will explore some of the issues surrounding safe use of herbal preparations during pregnancy including the strengths and limitations of relying on both traditional herbal sources of knowledge and scientific research. High quality print and internet based references will be shared to take some of the confusion out of your research and go beyond 1st page google results. We will learn how to place herbs into categories of related herbs based on their chemical constituents and actions in the body that allow the midwife to make judgments about the category as a whole rather than knowing hundreds of unique herbs and we will explore a few midwifery and client favorites in detail. Marketing for Birth Professionals with Liz HockmanJoin fellow birth worker and marketing guru, Liz Hochman, for our afternoon breakout session on marketing strategies for your birth business. During this 90 minute session we will learn general marketing strategies, take a closer look at the local birth market, and identify key areas of opportunity for growth and development of your birth business. Expect to cover ideas for a basic and effective website, networking solutions to boost your reach, and business organizational strategies to improve your client repeat rate.A Morning of Color-Brave Conversations with Marijke van Roojen and Wendy Gordon“The two most effective beliefs that prevent us (whites) from seeing racism as a system are: 1) that racists are bad people, and 2) that racism is conscious dislike…” -Dr. Robin DiangeloThrough presentation, film and small group discussions, participants will be immersed in 1) a self-exploration, and 2) a broad systems analysis, through a racial justice lens. This workshop intends to create a space where participants can join the workshop leaders in co-creating a mutually-rich learning and growth environment.We will begin the session getting to know one another, our commonalities and our differences, and by exploring our own relationship to heritage, race, privilege and oppression. We will then move from the personal, to exploring history, and the institutional structures of racism. We will work to identify how the intersections of oppression and privilege rooted in the past can control and shape our society today, creating ongoing inequities that impact us all. By the end of the workshop we will consider how each of us may be called individually, or collectively, to racial justice work both within our midwifery circles, and in our wider communities. Topics will in part be generated by the participants and may include: Having “color brave” vs. color blind conversations; supporting and developing an anti-racist identity; the power and privilege of white silence; the myth of meritocracy and what that means; white followership and the idea of “ally-ship”; circles of inclusion and co-creation: multi-cultural space vs. white space; organization and workplace analysis and shifting our institutions toward a racial justice model; supporting our own continued learning and growth through resource sharing and building a community engaged in ongoing Color-Brave conversations and movement.
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Start:
2016-06-10T08:00:00-05:00
End:
2016-06-11T17:15:00-05:00
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Tickets
Saturday only Student Registration
55.0
USD
10
Friday only Student Registration
55.0
USD
10
Saturday only Midwife Registration
95.0
USD
10
Friday only Midwife Registration
95.0
USD
10
Student/Apprentic Midwife Registration
110.0
USD
25
Midwife Registration
195.0
USD
45