Lactation Courses

The Center for Breastfeeding courses are indispensable for professionals working in the area of breastfeeding and human lactation. This includes physicians, nurses, nutritionists, public health providers, educators, lactation consultants, hospital staff, public health/WIC personnel, childbirth educators, public health nurses, nurses who work with pregnant or postpartum women, OB/GYNs, visiting nurses, pediatricians, family practice physicians, breastfeeding advocates, midwives, perinatal outreach workers...  To download a summary of these courses, click here , plus the registration form. Please note: the course catalog does not have the dates of the trainings! They can be found on this page (below) or please call us for more information. 

Healthy Children's Center for Breastfeeding has the expertise to meet your career and personal development needs with a wide range of lactation training programs. Enhance your community or hospital through these courses. And as a dual benefit, for those seeking CLC re-certification, the advanced programs listed here, as well and those listed under conferences, can be used for CLC renewal.

The faculty, Nurse Planner, and Planning Committee members declare that they have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Any royalties from books, DVDs or materials written by Healthy Children faculty referred to or used in these courses have been donated directly to charity.

The Lactation Counselor Certificate Training Program

This research based training provides 

  • Comprehensive breastfeeding management training

  • Practical skills that will make you more effective in your job

  • Time-saving hospital strategies that make breastfeeding a success

  • Strategies and tips for special circumstances - premies, Down Syndrome,
    newborns affected by medications, and more

  • How to talk to mothers in a way that encourages them to choose breastfeeding

  • Public Health/WIC strategies that work to increase breastfeeding success

  • Confidence building knowledge and skills

 

This comprehensive, evidence-based, breastfeeding management course includes practical skills, theoretical foundations and competency verification. Technical issues are explored within the context of counseling the mother in the hospital and in public health and community settings. This course prepares participants for professional work helping mothers and babies: this program trains participants how to gain insight into clients' problems, with a strong focus on counseling skills.

The CLC offers continuing education credits for RNs (45 contact hours through ANCC), RDs (45 CPEUs through CDR), IBCLCs (45.0L CERPs through IBLCE) and Nurse-Midwives (3.9 CEUs through ACNM), 3 college credits (MCH 330, only for students at Union Institute and University). 

The Lactation Counselor Certificate Training Program (CLC) is accredited by the Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice and the ANCC Commission on Accreditation as a Nursing Skills Competency Program. It is also approved through the Accreditation and Approval Review Committee (AARC) on Education in Human Lactation and Breastfeeding. AARC, jointly sponsored by ILCA and IBLCE, is the formal accreditation and approval body for education in the lactation consultant profession.

 

For a list of current dates, please click here. 

 

Advanced Issues in Lactation Practice:

Advanced Nurse Lactation Consultant (ANLC) and

Advanced Lactation Consultant (ALC)

Certification

 

 

The Advanced Issues in Lactation Practice – Advanced Nurse Lactation Consultant (ANLC) Advanced Lactation Consultant (ALC) Certification Program is accredited by the Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice and the ANCC Commission on Accreditation as a Nursing Skills Competency Program.

April 30 - May 4, 2012 in Columbus, OH

August 27 - 31, 2012 on Kauai, HI

Contact Hours: RNs: 45; RDs: 34; CLCs: 45 Contact Hours; IBCLCs: 39L and 6E CERPs; College Credits: 3, MCH 431

This interactive course provides IBCLCs and CLCs with the opportunity to earn advanced certification in lactation management while verifying the insight, knowledge and skills essential to the development and implementation of management strategies for complex problems related to breastfeeding and human lactation. Participants will examine cases, and develop management strategies using knowledge of psychology, sociology, infant development, gender studies, professional interrelations and ethics. Purpose, Objectives and Criteria for Successful Course Completion are available here.

 

Who should attend?

Nurses, lactation consultants and counselors, midwives, physicians, doulas, childbirth educators, volunteer breastfeeding helpers, speech/language/occupational therapists WIC breastfeeding and nutrition staff.

 

Pre-requisite:

For Advanced Nurse Lactation Consultant Certification: IBCLC or Healthy Children CLC and current RN license.

For Advanced Lactation Consultant Certification: IBCLC or Healthy Children CLC plus successful completion of the course Maternal Infant Assessment for Breastfeeding and Human Lactation.

 

Click to download the flyer and registration form.

 

 

Community Breastfeeding Educator

TBA

Contact Hours: RNs: 20; CLCs: 20; RDs: 20; IBCLCs: 20L CERPs

This foundation course for community workers in maternal child health focuses on providing services to pregnant women to encourage the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding. Strategies for providing anticipatory guidance and support in order to prevent breastfeeding problems and to address barriers to breastfeeding, and to enable women to overcome any perceived or actual breastfeeding problems. Click to download the flyer and registration form.

 

Maternal and Infant Assessment for the Breastfeeding and Human Lactation

December 1 & 2, 2011 in Cincinnati, OH

April 10 - 12, 2012 (3 days!!) in Hyannis, MA

Contact Hours for two day version: RNs: 13; CLCs: 13; RDs: 14; IBCLCs: 13L CERPs; College Credits: 2, MCH 331

Contact Hours for three day version: RNs: 20; CLCs: 20; RDs: 14; IBCLCs: 20L CERPs; College Credits: 2, MCH 331

This course examines assessment parameters and skills within the role of case finding, reporting, noting change and documenting the assessment. Major topics covered in the course are normal and gross anatomy of mother and infant, normal and abnormal development of the anatomy and physiology of the breastfeeding mother and baby, infant assessment scales, breast and maternal assessment, lexicon of assessment and documentation. Click to download the flyer and registration form.

 

Take the 20 Hour Course

Calhoun, GA on September 21 - 23, 2010

Contact Hours: RNs: 20; CLCs: 20; RDs: 20; IBCLCs: 20L CERPs

Take the 20 Hour Course over 3 days. This course fulfills the UNICEF recommendations for those who work with mothers and babies. Based on the new 20 hour curriculum in support of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, this course was developed with support from the US Department of Health and Human Services for the US Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. Click to download the flyer and registration form.

 

Learn to Teach the 20 Hour Course

(Applied Teaching Methods in Lactation Education for Health Professionals, Educators and Staff who Support the WHO/UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative)

February 6 - 10, 2012 in Rockford, IL

February 20 - 24 in Jackson, TN

Contact Hours:RNs: 45; RDs: 34; CLCs: 45; IBCLCs: 45.0L CERPs; College Credits: 2, MCH 332

This course is designed to train those who will teach the 20 hour course required by the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative for training health professionals, educators and staff. This offering provides a weeklong learning laboratory to assist participants in mastering the materials, methods and scientific evidence that form the basis of the 20 Hour Course (as developed by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, and adapted for the US by Healthy Children Project). This course is organized around the concepts, strategies and applications involved in adult learning, Utilizing these concepts, participants will present sections of the 20 hour course to other participants (topics and materials will be assigned on-site). In addition, barriers and strategies to implementing the Ten Steps will be addressed. It is recommended that learners have a firm understanding of the basic concepts of lactation before taking this course. Click to download the flyer and registration form.

 

Case Studies in Lactation Practice: Skills and Strategies

TBA

Contact Hours: RNs: 13 , CLCs: 13; IBCLCs: 13L CERPs

This course provides a new framework for evaluating and solving breastfeeding problems. Case studies will be examined through an 8 level process. Working in large and small groups, participants will gain insight and direction for solving lactation problems. Learn from the authors who wrote the book on Case Studies in Breastfeeding! 

 

Working Together: Communication and Teamwork Strategies for Reclaiming Breastfeeding

Dates: TBA

Contact Hours: RNs: 13; RDs: 12; IBCLCs: 13L CERPs, CLCs: 13

This course explores the theories of team and group processes including the use of teamwork tools, participatory action research, data driven planning, quality improvement processes and evidence-based practice using a framework of breastfeeding promotion, protection and support. Breastfeeding coalitions, WIC programs, hospital staff and others can benefit from this training.

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Developing and Implementing Evidence Based Clinical Practices

Distance Learning course being offered April - June 2012. Call for more information.

College Credits: 2, MCH 430

Evidence based practice is an emerging model for objectively examining the validity of common health practices. Its practice entails careful formulation of the presenting problem, evaluation of existing knowledge and research regarding treatment options and integration of new information into practice. This course explores evidence based clinical practices and provides a framework for integrating this new paradigm into existing hospital policies and procedures. Breastfeeding practices and the UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative are used as the exemplar for the course.Click to download the flyer and registration form.

 


Learn at Home Modules

Self Study Modules for you to take at home

Credits available for RNs, RDs, IBCLCs, and CLCs

Read about a topic that interests you, answer questions about the reading, and earn contact hours for continuing education. Click to download the flyer and registration form. Or request more information on the request form below.

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Courses
The Certified Lactation Counselor Certificate
Training Program (CLC)
Recertifying my CLC 
The Advanced CLC - Advanced Issues in Lactation Practice
Maternal and Infant Assessment for Breastfeeding and Human Lactation
Developing and Implementing Evidence Based Clinical Practices
The 20 Hour Course that Supports the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
Applied Teaching Methods in Lactation Education for Health Professionals, Educators and Staff who Support the WHO/UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
(Learn to Teach the 20 Hour Course)
Developing Evidence Based Clinical Practices - Distance Course
Working Together: Communication and Teamwork Strategies for Reclaiming Breastfeeding
Distance Learning Modules
(Independent Study - Contact hours for RNs. CLCs, L and E CERPs for IBCLCs, and RDs )

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