It’s Okay to Talk About It: Fostering Compassionate Care for Families Facing Infant Loss

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.