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4th Trimester Symposium:POSTPONED
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Our event aims to help birthing individuals survive and thrive in their pregnancy and beyond.
The United States has the highest rate of maternal morbidity in the industrialized world, and the rates are rising. Additionally, the city of Cleveland has the highest infant mortality in the entire country. The rates of motherhood and infant mortality are especially dire for black women and infants, dying at 3-5x the rate of their white counterparts.
We are flipping the script, and bringing birthing individuals and providers in the same room without the hierarchical clinical structure, building trust and fellowship within our community.
Hear from:
-Local Mothers, some of whom have experienced complications of pregnancy, and have tips for new moms
-Midwives
-Doulas
-Lactation Consultants
-Experts on Racial Disparities in Healthcare
For birthing individuals there will be a plethora of information to help you know all the options available to you in the area, and connect you with local resources
For providers, you can meet your clients in a non-clinical setting, gain knowledge of resources for them, and attend Racial Bias training to better serve the community.
Our goal is a healthier community!!
Our current Agenda is attached.
File Attachments: 4th_Trimester_Symposium_2020, Fourth_Trimester_Agenda
Food Provided
Where
Thwing Ballroom
10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
Speakers
Coretta Daniel
Founder
2BNurtured
Coretta Rae Daniel is a Cleveland, Ohio native where she currently raises two children with her husband, Charles. After battling postpartum depression and anxiety after the birth of her son in 2016, and finding no resources to support women like herself in healing and recovery, she founded 2BNurtured. 2BNurtured is a program whose mission is to raise awareness to maternal mental health and provide holistic support to women in motherhood. As a graduate of Cleveland State University’s School of Social Work, she has served in multiple capacities including maternal health, resource and referral and community corrections. She has been featured on Mom and Mind Podcast, Just One Hot Mom and Elevation Radio in Cleveland, Ohio. Her motto is, life is a beautiful struggle, worth fighting for.
Jennifer King
 Assistant Director of Training and Community Education
Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health
Jennifer King, PhD is the Assistant Director of Training and Community Education at the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health. She received both her Bachelor’s (Kent State University) and Master’s (Bowling Green State University) degrees in Nutrition before returning to Kent to earn her PhD in Public Health with an emphasis in Health Policy & Management.
Dr. King has progressively developed her skill to build and maintain relationships to encourage community engagement and connectivity while having designed and facilitated training for public health and community nutrition research. She is continuously strengthening her skills by working on collaborative and multi-disciplinary teams, large-scale project coordination, and evaluation management. All while doing so, she balances her passion for investigating food insecurity among college students with her personal life as a wife and mom to an active "two-nager".
Dr. King is an active member of Case Western Reserve University’s Food Insecurity Task Force and mentor in the Dear Daughter Queens Aligned youth program.
Ann Witt
Director of Lactation Services
Senders Pediatrics
Dr. Ann Witt is a board-certified family physician, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. Dr. Witt founded Breastfeeding Medicine of Northeast Ohio in 2008 to provide specialized breastfeeding medicine support to mothers and infants. She also is director of lactation services at Senders Pediatrics where all breastfeeding families see a lactation consultant at their first pediatric office visit. Dr. Witt has conducted clinical research on pediatric post-partum lactation support, engorgement, therapeutic breast massage, and infectious causes of chronic breast pain.
Marie McCausland
Postdoctoral Fellow
Case Western Reserve University
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-mccausland-0606b6136/
Marie McCausland, PhD, is a scientist, a mother, and an advocate for women’s reproductive health. McCausland is currently a postdoctoral fellow at CWRU in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology researching HIV, Colon Cancer and Inflammatory Bowel disease. She serves as the co-president of the CWRU PDA and co-chair of the Women’s Initiative Committee. McCausland's passion for maternal health comes from a personal experience with postpartum preeclampsia, after the birth of her firstborn son, which nearly took her life in 2017. McCausland has served as the spokesperson for Merck for Mothers from 2018-2019 and has won both the Mom Congress Advocate of the Year award in 2019 and the Merck for Mothers 2019 Maternal Health Maverick award.
Da'Na Langford
Founder
Village of Healing
Da’na Michelle Langford is a Cleveland native, co-founder of Village of Healing, and has a passion for serving underserved populations. Da’na has a Bachelor of Science in Sports Medicine- Athletic Training and a Master of Science with a specialization in Midwifery and Women’s Health. While employed at a women’s shelter she felt a call to service women of the vulnerable population.
With a host of experience working in hospital systems as a certified nurse midwife, for more than 10 years, Da’na is invested in serving the northeast Ohio community. Through her numerous committee positions, and panel discussion speaking engagements, she has committed her career to serving, educating, empowering, and advocating for black women.
Da’na is also founder of BHS Black Alumni Association, a group dedicated to raising scholarship funds for deserving African American Students at Beaumont and Benedictine High School.
Her passion continues as she is looking forward to serving Cuyahoga County and growing a community that is able to tap into our own resources and power. We as a community have the answers, trust us.
With a host of experience working in hospital systems as a certified nurse midwife, for more than 10 years, Da’na is invested in serving the northeast Ohio community. Through her numerous committee positions, and panel discussion speaking engagements, she has committed her career to serving, educating, empowering, and advocating for black women.
Da’na is also founder of BHS Black Alumni Association, a group dedicated to raising scholarship funds for deserving African American Students at Beaumont and Benedictine High School.
Her passion continues as she is looking forward to serving Cuyahoga County and growing a community that is able to tap into our own resources and power. We as a community have the answers, trust us.
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