About this Event

This 4-hour interactive session will cover the importance of father involvement in infant brain development. It will also discuss how to engage fathers in the early months of their infants' lives. This event is for Texas residents in the Tyler and surrounding areas.

Featured Speakers:

• Jacklyn Hecht, RN, MSN, CHW-I
• Melissa Valerio-Shewmaker, PhD, MPH, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, UTHealth School of Public Health in Brownsville Campus
• Meghan Swanson, PhD, Associate Professor, The University of Minnesota
• Derek M.Griffith, PhD, Georgetown University, Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Health

Program Panelists

• Jason Rhodes, CHW, NETHealth
• Alex Espinosa, CHW, NETHealth

Objectives

As a result of participating in this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe three benefits of parent engagement in baby’s brain health development.
• Identify two ways that fathers can be engaged in baby’s brain health development.
• List two changes they can make to increase father engagement in baby’s brain health development.

Who Should Attend

Community Health Workers, CHW-Instructors, nurses, and other healthcare staff who work with pregnant people and their families, or work with men in a healthcare capacity. 

Continuing Education

Continuing Education for Community Health Workers (CHW)

This course provides 4.0 hours of Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) certified CHW and CHW-I Continuing Education
(.5 Teaching Skills,  1.5 Knowledge Base, 1 Capacity-Building Skills, 1 Interpersonal Skills)

Cardea is approved by the Texas Department of State Health Services to provide continuing CHW hours in Texas, 
Certification #44 and continuing CHW-I hours in Texas, Certification #55.

Continuing Education for Nurses

Cardea Services is approved as a provider of continuing nursing professional development by Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. 

Upon successful completion of this CE activity 4 contact hours will be awarded.

In order to receive continuing education credit:

• Sign in and attend the entire conference 
• Complete an online evaluation using the link provided
• Complete an online certification request

Cost

There is no cost