It’s Okay to Talk About It: Fostering Compassionate Care for Families Facing Infant Loss
vie 21 de jun
|Vancouver Water Resources Education Center - Community Room, 4600 SE Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA 98661, USA
Northwest Mothers Milk Bank welcomes healthcare and allied health professionals to this thoughtful symposium, which aims to provide tools and resources to those who care for bereaved families in their work. Come curious, leave with confidence— it's okay to talk about it.
Time & Location
21 jun 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Vancouver Water Resources Education Center - Community Room, 4600 SE Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA 98661, USA
About the event
Northwest Mothers Milk Bank welcomes healthcare and allied health professionals to this thoughtful
symposium, which aims to provide tools and resources to those who care for bereaved families in their
work.
Healthcare professionals from around the country have been invited to speak on a variety of tough
topics, for which our field rarely receives formal instruction or education. Among others, topics include:
- Developing a model of patient care that offers support from a place of strength and calm
- Understanding your role in memory-making
- Strengthening your workplace's palliative care/perinatal loss program
- The implications of maternal lactation if neonatal survival is not expected
- Recognizing the effects of chronic stress and burnout
- Reviewing evidence-based self-care skills that impact stress and trauma
- Stories from real families; how their needs were met or unmet
Come curious, leave with confidence— it's okay to talk about it, and your bereaved patients and clients
are grateful that you do.
Continuing Education Credits
This activity has been approved for ANCC contact hours. An application has been made for IBCLE L-
CERPs recognition. We will update this space and email ticket holders directly when we have more
details.
Location and Parking
Vancouver Water Resources Education Center - Community Room
4600 SE Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA 98661
Free, ample, on-site parking is available. We highly recommend arriving with enough time to complete registration, help yourself to the coffee or tea provided, peruse the art gallery, and find a seat.
This event takes place in the warm, inviting Community Room of the Water Resources Education Center in Vancouver, a hidden gem which overlooks Portland from the Washington side of the
magnificent Columbia River.
Dining Included
Lunch is included in the cost of your ticket and provided by Artemis Foods, a Portland catering company
with a menu created from food that is local, organic, and sustainably brought to the table. Vegan and
gluten free options are available.
Art Gallery
Peruse the gallery of paintings and essays featured by our community partner, Buzzy's Bees , a nonprofit
organization that pairs grieving families with a professional writer and artist to create a collaborative
artistic representation of their child's life.
Content Warning
The topics in this Symposium will feature in-depth discussion of infant demise. Please take care of
yourself.
About Northwest Mothers Milk Bank
Our mission is to improve the health and survival of the Northwest's most vulnerable infants. We believe
every baby deserves access to human milk. Roughly 10% of our volunteer milk donors donate their
milk after the loss of their infant. Hosting this symposium resonates with some of our core values:
compassion, collaboration, innovation, and the promotion of health.
Northwest Mothers Milk Bank is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, Federal Tax ID #26-3458029. To learn more,
visit www.donatemilk.org.