Healthy Children Project, Inc.
Overview
Healthy Children Project, Inc. (HCP), an NCCRS member since July 2017, was established in 1993, and is a non-profit 501(c)3 research and educational institution. HCP’s mission is to improve child health outcomes in partnership with public, private, and non-profit agencies. This mission is advanced through education, leadership, consulting, education, and research in a paradigm of transformative learning.
HCP is the largest U.S. national provider of lactation management education for healthcare providers, educating more than 4,000 health providers, advocates, and facilitators annually through five-day courses, certificate courses, workshops, seminars, self-study modules, and national and international conferences
HCP faculty are leaders in their field, recognized for their evidence-based scholarship as well as their clinical experience. Our faculty serve in leadership positions in maternal and child health coalitions nationally and internationally.
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40 hours.
July 2012 – Present.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: competently and proficiently develop and implement an individualized and collaborative plan of care, using a problem-solving process, which acknowledges evidence based physical, psychosocial and cultural approaches to lactation management; competently and proficiently apply knowledge of psychosocial characteristics of women as mothers into an appropriate plan of care using a problem-solving process; and competently and proficiently apply knowledge of the context of the mother’s life and her breastfeeding goals into an appropriate plan of care using a problem-solving process.
Course content includes assessment and problem-solving models; the processes of history-taking, assessment, identifying and distinguishing symptoms and problems, problem reconciliation, proposing and evaluating solutions; application of models to live cases; presentation of case interpretations; social history of motherhood and mothering; archetypal and relational approaches to caring for new families; narrative-based practice; cultural competency; developmental aspects in lactation; biomedical ethics, and development of personal ethics statement; application of all models presented into case interpretation. Course content is delivered through lecture, video, live counseling interactions, case analysis and interpretation, and small and large-group work, as well as pre-course reading, homework assignments, quizzes, textbook readings, and a final exam. Prerequisite: Current certification as an IBCLC or CLC and completion of Maternal & Infant Assessment Course or currently licensed as RN, MD, DO, APRN.
In the upper division baccalaureate degree category, 3 semester hours in Lactation Education, Nursing Education, Health Care Administration, or Public or Community Health (7/17) (7/22 revalidation).
- (Formerly Applied Teaching methods/Learn to Teach the 20 Hour Course (Train the Trainer)
40 hours.
July 2012 – Present.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: apply principles of contemporary adult education in planning and presenting a topic in the area of breastfeeding and human lactation; analyze an antiquated practice (within the area of breastfeeding and human lactation), and propose an educational change strategy for the practice and create a practice change evaluation plan to improve continuity of care in maternity settings; and demonstrate competency and creativity in the presentation of a topic in the area of breastfeeding and human lactation.
Course content includes principles of adult education; examination of teaching methods that emphasize both delivery of information and integration of skill; use of staff education to promote evidence-based practice and continuity of care; system strategies for improving maternal child health, including the UNICEF/WHO Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative; barriers and facilitators of systems change; change management strategies; designing and presenting educational sessions designed to support system change; and fostering the development of learning organizations. Course content is delivered through lecture, video, small and large-group work, student presentations and peer evaluations, as well as homework assignments, quizzes, and textbook readings. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the Lactation Counselor Training Course or suitable breastfeeding education as determined by the instructor.
In the upper division baccalaureate degree category, 3 semester hours in Lactation Education, Nursing Education, Health Care Administration, or Public or Community Health (7/17) (7/22 revalidation).
45 hours.
July 2012 – Present.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: recognize their own and others attitudes, values and expectations about infant feeding, formulate and apply safe, evidenced based and effective lactation management strategies for pregnant, lactating and breastfeeding women, and apply an individualized counseling approach to the management of breastfeeding and human lactation.
Course content includes the public health significance of breastfeeding; barriers to successful breastfeeding; anatomy and physiology of lactation and breastfeeding (maternal and infant); factors that influence milk production; health outcomes associated with infant feeding choices; expressing, storing, and handling human milk; safer use of infant formula; contraindications to breastfeeding; counseling skills; the impact of maternity care practices on infant feeding; breastfeeding assessment; overcoming challenges through evidence-based management strategies; nutrition and breastfeeding; biomedical ethics and lactation care practice; and system approaches to improved infant feeding practice such as the UNICEF/WHO Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. Course content is delivered through lecture, video, and small and large-group work, as well as homework assignments, quizzes, textbook readings, role-plays, and a final exam.
In the upper division baccalaureate degree category, 3 semester hours in Lactation Education, Nursing Education, Health Care Administration, or Public or Community Health (7/17) (7/22 revalidation).
20 hours and independent study.
July 2012 – Present.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: summarize the history, assessment, symptoms and problems presented by the breastfeeding dyad; analyze lactation care interactions, documents, artifacts and lab reports with the goal of formulating a problem list; and articulate evidence-based intervention plans based on identified problems.
Course content includes critical thinking; problem-solving models; lactation assessment tools; the processes of history, assessment, and identifying symptoms and problems; distinguishing symptoms from problems and inferences from facts; review of cases highlighting possible factors contributing to milk production problems, maternal and infant medical conditions and problems associated with breastfeeding challenges, infant developmental issues impacting breastfeeding, usual and unusual anatomic and physiologic conditions impacting breastfeeding, breast refusal, and issues that may impact the transition to family foods. Course content is delivered through lecture, video, small and large-group work including forensic case files, as well as homework assignments, quizzes, textbook readings, and a final exam. Prerequisite: The Lactation Counselor Training Course or suitable breastfeeding education as determined by the instructor.
In the upper division baccalaureate degree category, 2 semester hours in Lactation Education, Nursing Education, Health Care Administration, or Public or Community Health (7/17) (7/22 revalidation).
