CAPPA Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association

This conference is open to anyone who is interested in supporting birth and /or parenthood. We look forward to seeing you in November.

Conference 2010

The 2010 annual CAPPA conference will be held in Calgary, Alberta, Friday, November 5th (6:30pm - 9:00pm), Saturday, November 6th (9am - 5pm), and Sunday, November 7th (9am - 4pm). Conference features National and International Speakers. We are also pleased to include all meals and refreshments with this event. Enjoy full course meals and an elaborate snack table throughout the two days. Join us for a networking Social Friday night. Indulge yourself at the luxury Conference Hotel (at a low group rate of $99), and consider bringing the family. Invite your friends and colleagues.

Our annual conference is only $150 to all members of CAPPA with registration before 1 Oct 2010, after this date the registration fee is $250. Non-member registration is $250 prior to 1 Oct 2010, after this date pre-registration fee is $350. Consider becoming a member of CAPPA and save on your Registration! At door registration is $400. Single day registration available. All information regarding our conference will be listed on this page as it becomes available. Click here for more Registration information.

Location

Special Conference Group Rate. CAPPA Canada Hotel Room Rate $99. Register early as rooms are limited.

WestJet offers a 10% flight discount for travel around our National Conference (3 days prior and 3 days after). Get 10% off regular rate at time of booking.

Theme

Conference Registration Policies

§ This conference is $150 for all CAPPA members (membership must be current up to December 2010). One day pre-registration is available.

§ Non members are welcome to attend using regular registration. Early Bird Registration fee is $ 250. One day pre-registration is available. At door registration is $400.

§ All cancellations must be mailed to CAPPA, postmarked no later than 10 days before the conference. No exceptions for any reason can be made. We do not accept e-mailed or faxed cancellations.

§ Mothers may bring quiet, breastfeeding babies less than six months of age. We ask that you bring a support person to watch the baby outside the conference area between feedings. Fussy or disruptive babies may lead to a request to take baby out of the conference area, as it is a learning environment.

§ Conference attendees must attend all conference general sessions in the entirety to obtain CEUs and a certificate of completion. No exceptions will be made. The lunch Guest Speaker is not part of CEU's. And Conference certificate does not include breakout sessions or pre/post conference trainings.

§ Members Early Registration Fee is $150. Rates increase after 1 Oct 2010. This conference is made available to CAPPA members at a reduced rate. Membership must be current up to 1 Dec 2010. Single day registration available.

§ Full meals and refreshments included in Registration Fee. Networking Social on Friday night.

§ Optional sessions/events may have a small fee applied. Please indicate your optional session preferences.

§ Conference at-door member registration available for $300 or $100 one day

§ $250 Conference Early Registration fee for non-members. Rates increase after 1 Oct 2010. Consider joining CAPPA Canada as a member and come to the conference at a reduced rate. Single day registration available.

§ Full meals and refreshments included in Registration Fee. Networking Social Friday night.

§ Optional sessions/events may have a small fee applied. Please indicate your optional session preferences.

§ Conference at-door registration available for $400 three days, or $150 one day

§ 3:15pm - 4:00pm - Attie Sandink: Promote, Protect and Support Breastfeeding

§ 4:15pm - 5:30pm - Elaine Carty: Beliefs and Attitudes about Pregnancy and Birth

§ 2:30pm - 3:15pm - Cheryl Childs and Carol Hauer: Perinatal Mood Disorders

§ 3:30pm - 4:30pm - Elaine Carty: Artist's Images of Pregnancy and the Birth Room

Continuing Education Hours - CEUs

CAPPA will award 18.5 CEUs for CAPPA members. Our Lunch Guest Sponsor Speaker is not part of the Conference CEU's. The following organizations will accept CAPPA CEU's/Cerps:

Please check our website for updates on the status of these applications. Please note: Conference attendees must attend all conference general sessions in the entirety to obtain CEUS and a certificate of completion. No exceptions will be made. This does not include breakout sessions or pre-conference trainings.

Penny Simkin, PT, is a physical therapist who has specialized in childbirth education and labor support since 1968. She estimates she has prepared over 10,000 women, couples, and siblings for childbirth. She has assisted hundreds of women or couples through childbirth as a doula. She is the author of many books and articles on birth for both parents and professionals

Currently, she serves on several boards of consultants and editorial boards and serves as senior faculty at the Simkin Center for allied Birth Vocations at Bastyr University which was named in her honor.

Today her practice consists of childbirth education, birth counseling, and labor support, combined with a busy schedule of conferences and workshops.

Penny and her husband, Peter, have four grown children, eight grandchildren, ranging in age from a 6 to 23 years, and a pug, Hugo.

Karon Foster is Director of The Parenting Partnership Program; a prenatal and parenting education program at Invest in Kids. Ms Foster provides expertise in prenatal education, maternal infant nursing, adult education and curriculum design. Her responsibilities encompass supervision of the project staff, supervision and training of teams of parent educators, curriculum design of The Parenting Partnership Program and the design of Parent Educator training. She brings to this role over 30 years of combined nursing and teaching experience.

As a nursing instructor, she has designed courses and taught nursing students in baccalaureate programs at the University of Toronto, York University and Ryerson Polytechnic University. Her academic experience provided an opportunity for learning the complexities of engaging students in on-line education. She has contributed as an author to several community nursing textbooks. She is intimately familiar with the needs of expectant and new parents through her work conducting prenatal and parenting classes, supervising prenatal classes and working with parents as a public health nurse and childbirth educator.

Luc Bouchard has held the position of The Provincial Coordinator: Alberta Father Involvement Initiative since February 2010, where he works out of the Stollery Children’s Hospital in the Child and Adolescents Protection Centre in Edmonton. The intention of the Alberta Father Involvement Initiative is to increase public awareness of the benefits to children when fathers are involved in their lives.

A moratorium has been declared on the lithotomy position of birth by the visionary founder of Dancing For Birth™, Stephanie Larson, whose mission is to Energize, Empower, Enlighten™ women worldwide and shift the paradigm to powerful vertical birth. Dancing For Birth‍™ revolutionizes birth through dynamic prenatal/postpartum classes which combine world dance forms like belly dance and African dance with essential birth wisdom. During weekly classes women tap into their inner wisdom and learn to harness gravity to their advantage and move their bodies during labor for physically and emotionally satisfying births. Larson developed the classes based on her combined passions for dancing and for caring for birthing women as a doula and educator. She now facilitates international certification workshops. Larson’s speaking engagements and TV appearances include DONA International, Lamaze International, CBS and NBC.

Outline: In this interactive intro to Dancing For Birth™ we’ll explore world dance as it relates to empowered birth and womanhood.

We’ll gyrate, shimmy and bounce our way through a “language of movement” specially designed to prepare for and facilitate birth.

Dr. Patricia Martens is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. She is also the Director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, an internationally acclaimed university-based research centre focusing on population-based health services, public health and population health research. Dr. Martens has held the position of Scientific Chair of the Canadian Public Health Association’s national conference for 2009, and for the upcoming CPHA Centenary Conference for June 2010.

Dr. Martens has held various research career awards, including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award (2003-2008) and presently a CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair (2008-2013). Patricia has been invited to speak at over 200 presentations nationally and internationally, and has published over 100 articles, books and abstracts. Patricia’s interests in health services and population health research include projects on the health status and healthcare use of Manitoba’s rural & northern residents, mental health and the use of health care services by those with mental illness, the health of Aboriginal people, and child health (including evaluating community intervention strategies to increase breastfeeding rates). Dr. Martens directs The Need To Know Team, a collaborative research team of university academics working with planners from Manitoba’s 11 Regional Health Authorities and the Manitoba Department of Health. This Team’s research impact on health policy and planning was recognized through receipt of the prestigious CIHR’s national KT Award for Regional Impact in 2005.

Title: Statistics for success: Reading the statistics and research design sections of a publication without fear

Outline: This plenary will explore the very basic essentials to enable participants to read and understand quantitative research papers. Why do they keep putting those P-values in the results section? What’s a confidence interval, and why is it important to me? What’s a standard deviation, and why should I care about it? What is the real meaning of a Relative Risk? What’s a case-control study? All these mysteries, plus many others, will be unfolded in a very user-friendly session on understanding the basic principles of statistics and research design.

Childbirth matters!! I am passionately committed to holistic and woman-centered care, support and education of childbearing families and have been actively engaged in this pursuit for the last 16 years. After the birth of my first son I recognized the critical importance of support in labor. I became a volunteer birth companion shortly after, providing pregnancy and childbirth support to socially at risk women. Upon graduating as an RN, I started work on a busy multicultural labor & delivery unit.

My need to understand all aspects of childbirth quickly led me to begin teaching prenatal classes and working as a doula. I have enjoyed all of these roles immensely, and my desire to share the amazing beauty of birth with others has motivated me to take on a number of instructing roles including trainer/ nurse consultant for the Volunteer Birth Companion Program, Clinical Instructor for the University of Calgary Faculty of Nursing, Clinical Nursing Educator for Labor & Delivery, creator of/ educator for the Obstetrical Undergraduate Nursing Employee Program (student nurse doulas), CAPPA Labor Doula Trainer and CAPPA Childbirth Educator Trainer. My spirit is that of a midwife, and this year I began my midwifery training with Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. I could not have done any of this without the amazing support of my husband and 3 boys.

· Identify teaching strategies to energize their classroom and maximize participant learning

2. From “Ho-hum” to “that was fun” – key elements of an active learning approach

Attie Sandink is a Registered Nurse, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and Childbirth Educator, who can presently be found either teaching Child Birth Classes, giving breastfeeding support and education to the children of Clients she has taught many years ago or assisting them at their births. She may also be supporting teens or young moms at the Shifra Home in Burlington, Ontario.

Attie has served on a number of boards related to her RN Career, for Beginnings Adoption and Counseling Services and The Canadian Reformed World Relief Fund Organization, as well as teaching “Human Sexuality” in area Christian Schools. Presently Attie is a Lactation Educator for CAPPA Canada and facilitates a Distance Education Program for Breastfeeding through Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, She continues to work as a Private Registered Lactation Consultant and a Labour and Delivery Nurse

Her special interest in the every day “Miracle of Birth”, has led her to learn and research as much as possible about the innate and distinctive behaviour of the newborn, either full term or preterm and how their instincts stimulate the mothering and parenting physiology as well as the nurturing of long term attachment and bonding. Her travels to South Africa and Mali have given her a greater insight into the various cultural norms but admits there is still so much more to learn if we are willing to accept what we do not yet know!

Attie gives credit to Dr. Nils Bergman and his contemporaries for continuing to stimulate her interest in Kangaroo Mother Care and the mother/Infant behaviour response. Learning to understand these natural instincts has changed her practice from assisting mothers and infants to breastfeed to just guiding the process in a much more hands off and normal process.

Her husband and her four sons have been very patient with her passion to support new families.

This interactive workshop presents information on group prenatal care based on the Centering Pregnancy model. For just over a decade, doctors, nurses, midwives and childbirth educators have successfully implemented this integrative approach to prenatal care in many parts of the world and now group care has found a niche in Calgary. Learn about the benefits of physicians, educators and expectant families working together to deliver a holistic, comprehensive, meaningful and fun model of health care that draws upon and respects each group member’s knowledge, background, and experiences.

With an insatiable appetite for knowledge, a background in acting and doula work, and ten years of childbirth education to her credit, Candace brings knowledge, experience, passion and comedy into all her interfaces with expectant families. She believes that the future of childbirth education lies in listening more than teaching, story over statistics, and integrated rather than compartmentalized care. She has spoken at the 2005 Lamaze International Conference and has given birth two times to two wonderful sons. She lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband, sons, pet hamster and a tank full of fish.

Presentation Title: “It Affects the Whole Family-Support Through the Perinatal Period”

Previously worked as an LPN at Foothills Hospital Long Term and Palliative Care for 20 years before returning to Mount Royal University where she studied and received her Diploma in Social Work. Cheryl first came to the program as a client and attended the Postpartum Support Group after the birth of her first child in 1987. Cheryl always valued the lessons, tools and strategies she learned and the nonjudgmental support she received from the support service and felt strongly about supporting mothers so that they do not suffer in silence. In 1993 Cheryl was trained as a 1-1 telephone peer support volunteer for the Postpartum Program. Cheryl has been interviewed for local newspaper and magazine articles aimed to reduce the stigma of perinatal illness. In 1999 Cheryl and her family participated in the making of “Heartache and Hope…living through postpartum depression.” This DVD was developed for both families and health care professionals to reduce the stigma of postpartum, and to educate by offering the compelling stories of pain and healing. Currently Cheryl works daily with families experiencing postpartum difficulties, facilitates a weekly support group, and facilitates training education sessions to the community. In 2009 Cheryl participated in co-creating the Postpartum Support Model Manual: A Guide for Organizers and Facilitators. Currently she is writing/co-creating with team members a manual of exercises that can be used within perinatal support groups.

Carol Hauer, Manager, Families Matter Society, B.Sc. Developmental Psychology

Has been working in the child and parenting field for over 12 years after graduating with a degree in Developmental Psychology from Eastern Washington State University. The programs she has been fortunate to be involved in and develop include: Single Parent Program, Culture Club for Immigrant Girls, Baby Club for Expecting and New Immigrant Mothers, Parent Resource Line, Fathers Programming Portfolio and the Postpartum Support Program. Over the last 7 years her focus has been on perinatal mood disorders and support to women and their families, as well as training other professionals, support volunteers and a variety of practicum students in this area. Current practice has created an interest in the need for more Father support around PMD’s and Families Matter is very excited to be involved with a tri-provincial CIHR research project which Carol is the National Advisory Committee Chair.

Elaine Carty BN, MSN, CNM

Beliefs and Attitudes about Childbearing and Artist's Images of Pregnancy and the Birth Room

Affiliation:

Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, Division of Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine

University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada

Degrees, Certifications:

Bachelor of Nursing (BN) University of New Brunswick

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Yale University

Certificate in Nurse Midwifery (CNM) Yale University

Personal Biography:

Elaine Carty has practiced and taught nursing in New Brunswick, Ontario and British Columbia. She was the founding Director of the UBC Midwifery Program from 2001- 2006.

Her research over the years has focused on a variety of women's health issues including postpartum early discharge, disability and childbearing, integration of midwifery into the health care system, childbirth in the arts and humanities and university student women and mens' attitudes about childbearing.

Artist's Images of Pregnancy and the Birth Room

Art offers one way to explore the richness and complexity of human experiences. Works of art draw on our imagination and our emotions both of which are essential to a holistic approach to care and caring. Observation of artists’ images of pregnancy and birth, which has always been a focus of the arts and humanities, evokes cultural, ethical, political, spiritual and historical and personal dimensions of childbirth – both pleasurable and disturbing. Each of us experiences different ways of seeing and feeling as we view an art object. The way we see and feel things is affected by what we know and believe. And yet art can take us to a place where the normal language of the article or textbook are not sufficient. In this presentation a sample of images will be used to illuminate the following topics: fertility symbols, impregnation, aspects of pregnancy such as thoughtfulness, joy, sorrow and fear, sharing the news of pregnancy, birth rooms and birth attendants.

Beliefs and Attitudes about Pregnancy and Birth

In British Columbia, where this study of university student’s attitudes to reproductive care took place, women have the choice of family physician, registered midwife, or obstetrician (by referral) as their maternity care provider If women choose a midwife, they have the choice of birth at home or birth in the hospital. In this presentation I will report on the choice of mode of delivery (vaginal or C/S), choice of birth place, and choice of care provider for the 3,680 university students who had never given birth and who participated in our online survey.

We conducted a thematic analysis of open ended comments about reasons for mode of delivery and care provider choice, as well as statistical analyses to study whether mode of delivery, choice of care provider, choice of birth place, as well as student's level of confidence in normal birth are related. More students chose an obstetrician for their primary care provider and hospital as their imagined place of birth. Choosing a vaginal birth, a midwife or an out-of-hospital birth is associated with a higher confidence with normal birth. Our research findings expose a need to educate young adults about normal birth and the range of maternity options available to them.

Walter MacDonald White Bear is a Cree singer-songwriter originally from the James Bay of the Cree First Nation of Moose Factory, Ontario. Walter has been performing acoustic and flute music for several years. Performance highlights include The Edmonton Folk Music Festival, The Chiefs Summit with Tom Jackson and The Dream Speakers Festival. He has also performed as part of events such as The Mountain Song Native Theater, Awo Tan Native Fundraiser, the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education and more.

Walter’s music is a reflection of his personal journey as a First Nations person in Canada. He has shared his cultural knowledge with various audiences that range from correctional services to principals, teachers and students.

Pre Conference Training:

Postpartum Doula Certification Workshop Pre Conference 3 & 4 Nov, 2010. Register Now at: Registration Info

Post Conference Training:

Dancing for Birth Certification Workshop Post Conference 8 & 9 Nov, 2010. More info : or

CAPPA Canada 2010

Childbirth and Postpartum Conference

Calgary AB, November 5-7, 2010