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ForwardWebinar: Empowering Families: Resources, Nutrition, & Care for Children with Special Needs
Families caring for children with special health care needs manage a great deal of responsibilities and navigating them can be very challenging. Using a holistic approach considers the whole person and gives attention to medical, emotional, and social aspects of their well-being.
This interprofessional webinar will delve into the unique challenges faced by families with special needs children and provide practical strategies that support and empower them. By exploring the role of each health care team member, and the organizations and resources that support this population, attendees will gain valuable insights into how to assist families effectively. The presentation will also discuss common misconceptions and pitfalls, which help to ensure support efforts are truly beneficial.
Join Karman Meyer, RDN, LDN, RYT, and Tonya Bowman, on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, from 2-3:30 p.m. ET, for a webinar that will offer practical guidance on stress reduction techniques for parents, helping them cope with the emotional and physical demands of caring for a special needs child. Attendees will receive actionable nutrition advice tailored to the needs of these families that consider factors like time constraints and access to food. Leave this presentation equipped with the knowledge and resources to provide meaningful support for special needs families and increase the effectiveness of interprofessional teamwork to significantly improve healthcare outcomes for patients with special care needs.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will better be able to:
- Identify and effectively use organizations and resources that provide support, information, and assistance to families with special needs children.
- Develop strategies for providing culturally competent care to special needs families while considering their unique needs, beliefs, and values.
- Create practical nutrition recommendations for families that consider specific dietary needs, time constraints, access to food, and cooking skills.
- Discuss how an interprofessional care team approach supports families with special needs children and improves the health care outcomes of this population.
Additional Information
Karman Meyer, RDN, LDN, RYT, is a dietitian with 15 years of experience in the nutrition and food industry. She's the author of “Eat to Sleep: What to Eat & When to Eat It for a Good Night's Sleep” and “The Everything DASH Diet Meal Prep Cookbook.” Karman has been featured on PBS and in publications such as Bon Appetit, Shape Magazine, FoodNetwork.com, and WomensHealthMag.com. She is passionate about sharing the facts about food and nutrition and encouraging others to use food as their all-natural solution to improved health.
Tonya Bowman is the Statewide Family Resource Specialist/Health Equity Leader for Family Voices of Tennessee. She has served in this role for the last 17 years. Tonya is the mother of three children, two young adults and one child in high school. Raising her children is her lived experience regarding those with special health care needs and disabilities. Tonya enjoys partnering with others who are passionate about serving families who have children/youth with special health care needs, chronic illnesses, and disabilities. She uses her professional expertise when sharing a parent's perspective across various councils, committees, and boards. Among other activities, Tonya is a long-term member of the State of Tennessee Genetics Advisory Committee, co-chair of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Community Advisory Council, board member of Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and former Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) family delegate and current LEND Advisory Council member. Tonya and her family live in Nashville TN.
Disclosures:
The faculty and planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Social Workers:
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Great Valley Publishing Company is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course will receive 1.5 ethics, clinical, cultural competence, or general types of continuing education credits.
Dietitians:
This activity will also award 1.5 CDR CPEU credit for dietetics. Completion of this RD/DTR profession specific or IPCE activity awards CPUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU).
If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60-minute hour = 1 CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.
Interprofessional:
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.5 IPCE credits for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
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