CAPPA introduces new Teen educator program
Posted on Monday, May 31st, 2010 · Permanent link to the post
CAPPA ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF THEIR TEEN EDUCATION PROGRAM, AND INTRODUCES NEW PROGRAM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Back by popular demand, the CAPPA Teen Program, and introducing Executive Director Chelsea Eardley
More information is available at www.cappa.net, and by emailing teendirector@cappa.net
Press Release, Lawrenceville, GA, May 24, 2010, The CAPPA Teen Program is an advanced training for related healthcare professionals who feel a strong pull to help expectant and parenting teens in the best possible way. It is open to trained or certified childbirth educators, antepartum doulas, and labor doulas, or to those with significant experience teaching childbirth education classes; those outside this list will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
About teen pregnancy and the CAPPA Teen Program
After experiencing a fifteen year decline, teen pregnancy is now on the rise. Though teen pregnancy is 100% preventable, CAPPA recognizes that it is an issue that will probably never fully disappear. Expectant teens should be afforded the same opportunities toward a healthy pregnancy that other women experience. These opportunities should include access to education regarding the realities of pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and postpartum issues. The CAPPA Teen Program aims to prepare educators and support professionals to work with expectant and parenting teens.
Expectant teens can present special challenges for a childbirth educator. The CAPPA Teen Program teaches the different ways in which the teen population learns information, thus enabling childbirth educators to effectively cater to their special needs. This includes making modifications to current curricula both in content and method of delivery, in order to teach teens in a way in which they can understand. A CAPPA teen educator understands the conflicts of pregnancy during the adolescent stage of development, she establishes the unique needs of the expectant teen, and she identifies various resources available to assist educators who work with pregnant teens.
CAPPA trained and certified teen educators work in a variety of settings, including hospitals, clinics, and in private settings. The workshop curriculum has undergone a revision for 2010, and will be launched during the organizations annual conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, July 22-26, 2010. A Teen Program training workshop will take place at the conference host hotel, July 26-27, 2010, at the Hilton at Charlotte University Place.
About Chelsea Eardley
Chelsea Eardley, CCTE, holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures with an emphasis on Spanish from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, USA. She has been working as a case manager with pregnant and parenting teens for five years, and is committed to educating and supporting this special population. Chelsea is a CAPPA-trained volunteer labor doula and lactation educator through a community health center in the Denver metro area of Colorado. Part of her work with teens also involves teaching a two-day sexual education curriculum in middle and high schools, facilitating support groups in high schools for teen parents, and staffing a teen clinic which provides confidential family planning services.
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Please visit CAPPA at www.cappa.net for more information about the Teen Program. Contact Chelsea Eardley at teendirector@cappa.net for full requirements and registration information.