Virtua is presenting a professional educational event titled “The Key to Success: Skin-to-Skin Mother Care.” Dr Bergman is world renown in areas of breastfeeding and perinatal neuroscience, and will be traveling from South Africa for a limited engagement in the United States. This conference will include his holistic view of skin to skin mother care and its neurological effects on mother and infant. Topics will relate to practices in hospitals and communities in the tri- state region.

Click this link to register for this conference, The Key to Success: Skin-to-Skin Mother Care”

You’re invited to the Northern Consortium’s “Advancing Health Literacy: Strategies to Improve Patient Safety and Health Outcomes” conference on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 from 8:00am to 3:30pm in Paramus, New Jersey.

Click this link to Register and get more information about the Health Literacy Conference

You are invited to attend a workshop entitled ” Sleep Matters: Effects on Maternal Mental Health & Infant Behavior on Wednesday, June 6, 2012.

The session will be held at  8:00am to 4:00pm at Holy Name Medical Center ,Teaneck, New Jersey.

This conference will discuss the health consequences of sleep loss and review changes in sleep physiology during the perinatal period with a

focus on postpartum depression (PPD). Participants will learn about the relationship between maternal depression and infant sleep, behavioral

sleep treatment options for perinatal women with mood disorders and hear current advice regarding nighttime breastfeeding and PPD.

Get more information and register for this cutting-edge conference on sleep patterns and it’s affects on pregnancy and later infant behavior.

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How often have you been told information in a non-user friendly manner? How often have you shared health information with someone and watched that glazed look of confusion in their eyes?

Well, now there some help available.

You’re invited to the Northern Consortium’s “Advancing Health Literacy:
Strategies to Improve Patient Safety and Health Outcomes” conference on
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 from 8:00am to 3:30pm in Paramus, New Jersey.

The goal of this conference is to enhance participants’ knowledge about
challenges of low health literacy, current approaches to measuring
health literacy, and the importance of effective physician-patient
communication to improve health outcomes.  Participants will have the
unique opportunity to learn about initiatives developed to address low
health literacy in New Jersey.

Please click on the ‘get more information’ link to view conference
agenda and further details.

Get more information about the health literacy conference

FASD: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice

Watch the Video

Presentation by Michael Ybarra, MD of Georgetown University to medical students
at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.  NOFAS has offered FASD
coursework for first-year medical students at Georgetown University since 1994.

FEATURES

4th Annual Jack Mendelson Honorary Lecture

Leading FASD expert Dr. Edward Riley will deliver the 4th Annual Jack Mendelson
Honorary Lecture on April 19, 2012 in Bethesda, Maryland. NIAAA has established
this lecture series to “highlight clinical/human research in the alcohol field
by featuring an outstanding investigator who has made significant and long-term
contributions to our understanding of alcoholism susceptibility, alcohol’s
effects on the brain and other organs, and the prevention and treatment of
alcohol use disorders.”
Event, NIAAA, April 7, 2012

Kennedy and Ramstadt to Hold Field Hearings on Why Parity is Still Not Working

Former Congressmen Patrick Kennedy and Jim Ramstadt will host a series of
hearings across the U.S. to discover how the lack of enforcement of the Mental
Health Parity and Addiction Equality Act of 2008 is affecting treatment
facilities and patients.
Article, Floridians for Recovery, April 6, 2012

America’s Sex Trafficking Victims

How a vulnerable young woman with FAS named “Lisa” became the victim of sex
trafficking.
Article, New York Times, April 5, 2012

Pregnant Pause Baby Fair to Prevent Developmental Disabilities

The Family Resource Network of New Jersey will host its annual Pregnant Pause
Baby Fair on April 22nd to celebrate healthy pregnancies and raise awareness of
FASD.
Article, Asbury Park Press, April 5, 2012

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Chicago Tribune reporter, Bonnie Miller Rubin, recently sat down with Diane
Malbin, founder of NOFAS Oregon affiliate, FASCETS, to discuss the misunderstood
disorder of FASD.
Article/Interview, Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2012

Bill letting judges consider FASD passes Senate

Alaska’s SB151 bill on including FASD as a mitigating factor in sentencing has
unanimously passed in the Alaska Senate.
Article, New England Cable News, April 4, 2012

Local groups hold Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder youth essay contest

The Youth Advisory Committee of the Phoenix Foundation (Y-SHIFT) and the Baby’s
Best Chance program of Grand Forks, Canada are holding an essay contest to
create awareness of FASD.
Article, Grand Forks Gazette, April 4, 2012

Misinformation persists about drinking during pregnancy

Each year an estimated 8,500 Minnesota babies are born with FASD and more needs
to be done to prevent this costly disorder.
Article, Brainerd Dispatch, April 3, 2012

Congress takes on fetal alcohol exposure

Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Mark Begich (D-AK) join Senators Tim Johnson
(D-SD) and Daniel Inouye (D-HI) to push forward the Advancing FASD Research,
Prevention, and Services Act. This act would authorize funds through 2017 for
essential research, education, and surveillance to prevent FASD and assist those
living with the disorder.
Article, Alaska Dispatch, April 2, 2012

Women and Alcohol

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has recently
developed the new “Women and Alcohol” website with helpful information and
resources including an iPhone application for screening, brief intervention and
referral to treatment.
Website, ACOG, April 2012

Vote for Chancer for the 2012 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards!

Vote for FASD service dog, Chancer, for the 2012 Hero Dog Awards.  Chancer is a
golden retriever owned by Iyal Winokur, a young man with FASD.
Contest, Hero Dog Awards, April 2012

FASD Ribbons Available from DRT Press

In an effort to raise awareness of FASD, Adrienne Bashista, whose son has FASD,
is selling FASD ribbon bumper magnets. The proceeds will go toward developing
more FASD awareness materials and funding a parent training.
Blog, DRT Press, April 2012

There will be a free two part webinar series on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)March 6 & 20, 2012 during the lunch hours (EST).  This series is particularly aimed towards health care providers .

Speakers include: Denise Aloisio, MD, FAAP- Neuro-Developmental Pediatrician, Director, Child Evaluation Center, Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Director, Regional Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnostic Center and
Susan Adubato, PhD- Director, New Jersey/NE FASD Education and Research Center UMDNJ-NJMS, Newark, New Jersey

Sign up now for this cutting edge webinar on FASD today!

ATTEND FREE Webinar-Using Technology to Communicate with Your Developmentally Disabled Child on Tuesday February 14, 2012. Click this link to registrar for this cutting edge technology webinar.