HealthConnect One (HC One) invites you to join us in celebrating the historic anniversary of the Affordable Care Act as we host our fifth national conference, Birth, Breastfeeding and Beyond, on March 21 -23, 2011 at the Hilton Arlington, just across the bridge from Washington, D.C.
Click here for a full schedule and more information.
Who Should Attend?
Community health workers, community-based doulas, breastfeeding peer counselors, maternal and child health program practitioners, administrators, supervisors, researchers, educators, registered nurses, policy-makers, government officials, students, social innovators, community leaders -- and anyone else interested in developing, practicing, or sustaining cutting-edge community-based maternal and child health programs.
Highlights of the conference include:
· Health Reform and Poetry – Come to our Opening Reception and hear Mayra E. Alvarez, MHA, director of public health policy for the Office of Health Reform, discuss the impact of health reform on community-based practice. Stay to enjoy spoken word poetry by high school youth from the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop.
- Judy Thierry, DO, MPH, of the Indian Health Service, will share the community strategies she helped to develop for the U.S. Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding.
- Gather tips on Leveraging Hospital Breastfeeding Data to Improve Maternity Care Practices and Breastfeeding Rates from Karen Farley, RD, IBCLC, of the California WIC Association and Robbie Gonzalez Dow, MPH, RD, CLE, of the California Breastfeeding Coalition.
- Eugene DeClercq, PhD, Professor, Boston University School of Public Health, will present Five Key Trends in the Changing World of Maternity Care in 2011.
- Community-based practice is the overarching theme for workshops offered by Open Arms Perinatal Services (Seattle), Migrant Health Promotion (Weslaco, Texas), Brooklyn Young Mothers Collective (New York, N.Y.), Family Health and Birth Center (Washington, D.C.), Hudson Perinatal Consortium (Newark, N.J.), BirthMatters (Spartanburg, S.C.), and the Indiana Perinatal Network (Indianapolis), among others.
- Advocacy Day - Join us on Capitol Hill to celebrate the Birthday of Health Reform, and share with legislators the impact of community health workers on maternal and child health!
Registration Fees
HealthConnect One is a national non-profit building sustainable programs for peer-to-peer support during pregnancy, birth and early parenting, through training and technical assistance for direct service providers in low-income communities. We are currently advising 82 communities in 28 states, Washington, D.C., and internationally, in various stages of preparation or replication of the community-based doula model – including communities in Puerto Rico, Chile and Japan who have taken the initial steps to develop their programs.
For more information about HealthConnect One, please visit our website at www.healthconnectone.org.
