Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition

These details are from the conference brochure, which is available at the bottom of this article as a pdf.

Saturday, October 3, 2009
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

A One-Day Conference
at the
Olson Auditorium
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 W. Wellington
Chicago, IL 60657

Speakers:
Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Executive Director, National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy.
Author: Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence
and Selling Out Mothers and Babies.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
Private Practice Lactation Consultant.
Program Director for Lactation Education Consultants.

Jointly Sponsored by
Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coatition (CABC)
and
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

There is strength in numbers. Chicago's lactation consultant groups, breastfeeding task forces, and La Leche League of Illinois have joined together to form the Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition (CABC). At this conference, find out what the CABC is doing and how you can get involved as we join together as one breastfeeding community.

Who Should Attend?

Those in the Chicago area who work with breastfeeding families: nurses, lactation consultants, physicians, dietitians, doulas, midwives, peer counselors, La Leche League Leaders, and public health staff.

Conference Objectives

After the conference, participants should be able to:

• Describe potential barriers to breastfeeding presents by the late preterm infant.
• Develop management guidelines for breastfeeding the late preterm infant.
• Discuss taking responsibility for acting as a change agent to remove breastfeeding barriers.
• Describe approaches to addressing breastfeeding barriers in their community/institution.
• Discuss how tranfer of care from community to hospital and back to community can be accomplished using the Building Bridges program as a model.
• Identify obstacles in accomplishing this transfer of care.
• Identify three hallmarks of "pop culture" parenting and why parents are drawn to this methold.
• Discuss ways in which the medical, nursing, and lactation staff can facilitate attachment parenting that is not perceived as chaotic.

Location

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, 836 W. Wellinton, Chicago, IL. Drive toward the Chicago Loop. From the North, (I-90/I-94) exit Addision. Go east to Sheffield then turn right. Go south to Wellington. Turn left onto Wellington. The hospital parking will be on the left. From the South, exit at Fullerton. Go east to Sheffield then turn left. Go to Wellinton, turn right. From Lake Shore Drive, exit Belmont (3200 N.). Go west to Halsted. Turn left and go to Wellinton then turn right. The CTA purple and brown line both serve AIMMC. The Belmont bus stop is a short walk form the hospital. Parking is $5.00/day in East Garage off Halsted.

Cost

The conference fee of is $55* online using paypal (or you can print out the attached pdf for and mail in your check for $50 and avoid a $5 paypal online fee). The conference fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, refreshments breaks, conference syllabus and CERPs and nurses' contact hours. A late fee of $20 will be charged for registrations online or postmarked after September 15, 2009. Scholarships are available. To receive a scholarship application, check the appropriate box on the registration form before mailing it. *$40 (or you can print out the attached pdf and mail in your check for $35 and avoid a $5 paypal online fee) for Peer Counselors, LLL Leaders and Doulas.

Learning Environment

The conference auditorium is not an ideal environment for toddlers, but there will be a separate room with conference audio and video feeds where mothers or caregivers can entertain toddlers. Quiet infants are welcome in the auditorium. If your baby or toddler becomes vocal, please care for him/her outside the auditorium. If you need an electric pump and/or a room for pumping, pelase contact us before the conference to make arrangements. Please bring a sweater or jacket as the room may become cool.

Creating Change: Becoming a Breastfeeding Culture Conference Agenda

~ Conflict of interests will be disclosed at event. ~

Contact Hours/CERPs

CERPs (4.5 L CERPs and 1.5 E CERPs) have been applied for from the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBCLE).
Advocate Health Care is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This CNE activity is being offered for 6.0 contact hours.

Refunds

Your fees, minus a $20 cancellation fee, will be refunded only if a written request is received by 09/15/09.

Questions

If you have questions or want more information, please contact Kathy or Leigh at: conference@chicagoareaBFC.org