Aviva Institute Lactation Programs
LACT 0201 Intro to Lactation
No previous experience or training with breastfeeding is required for
this course. This is designed as an introduction to lactation, with the
focus on educating mothers on the benefits of breastfeeding. This
covers breastfeeding basics, when to refer, community advocacy and
education.
Noncredit, 3 week course --
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LACT 602 Lactation Counseling Education
Prerequisite: LACT 0201 Intro to Lactation
or experience with nursing mothers (excludes personal breastfeeding
experience) such as La Leche League leader or WIC Counselor.
6 credit, 10 week course - .>>more info
Additional Courses
We
currently have a number of midwifery courses that are applicable to the
lactation student. We are in the process of developing courses for
lactation students on their path to IBCLC Certification. >>more info |
Interim Lactation Program Director
 Carrie Finger, IBCLC, LCCE has been a lactation consultant since 1998. She is the co-founder of the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition. She has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute
and is a Certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator. She is currently
teaching numerous and varied prenatal classes in a large
hospital chain. Previously, she worked for over 12 years as a
lactation consultant in a busy hospital and is pleased to now be
working in a learning environment where birth is honored and recognized
as a normal and sacred process.
She is a wife and
mother of two pre-teenagers. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area,
but originally from the mountains of NC. She loves to mountain bike,
paint large abstract paintings, and see live music.
 Linda Barnhart RN, IBCLC
has been a lactation consultant since 2001. She has been a labor and
delivery RN since 1977 in numerous hospitals in the US and Canada. She
is passionate about breastfeeding and the important part it plays in
the natural birth process. Linda believes those first few days are the
most important to getting the breastfeeding family off to the best
start.
Linda has had experience supervising
students in their clinical preparation as nurses in the labor and
delivery, nursery, postpartum unit. Linda works with
breastfeeding mothers in hospital and staffs the busy outpatient
breastfeeding clinic that serves all mothers in the community, whether
their babies were born in hospital or at home. She enjoys a
relationship with the two midwifery groups that deliver at each
hospital and in the community.
Linda is the co-chair of the Niagara Regional Breastfeeding Coalition
and also sits on the joint breastfeeding working group comprised of
members of the Niagara Health System and Niagara Regional Public Health
Department.
Linda lives in Niagara Falls,
Ontario, Canada with her husband of 28 years and has 3 wonderful
children, 26, 23 and a 17 year old still at home. All 3 were
breastfed, naturally.
 Regina Maria Roig-Romero, BS IBCLC
has been helping women breastfeed, and teaching others how to do so,
since 1990. She received her B.S. in Childhood Education from Florida International University. Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Health from that same university.
She was a Leader and Associate Coordinator of Leader Accreditation for
La Leche League International for several years. In 1996 she became an
International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and immediately
went to work for the Miami-Dade County Health Department’s Women,
Infants and Children (WIC) program, in Miami Florida. As their Senior
Lactation Consultant she has been intimately involved in the creation
and growth of their breastfeeding program, which has since been
recognized by the U.S. government as one of the three best, most
innovative breastfeeding programs in the country. Regina has extensive
experience as a clinician and as a teacher, successfully guiding
several women from a wide variety of backgrounds to board-certification
as IBCLCs. She is fluent in English and Spanish and currently
serves approximately 65 low-income Hispanic women per month through the
WIC program.
Regina’s
own La Leche League Leader inspired her career, and taught her to
treasure the midwifery model of care. A very caring midwife delivered
her second and third children. She believes lactation consultants must
bring precisely the same type of care to the work that they do, and it
is because of this that she is excited to be working for Aviva
Institute.
She is the mother of three children. Regina loves reading, nature photography, and animals, especially dogs.
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LACT 0201 Intro to Lactation
 This
introductory course will be of great benefit to add to the repertoire
and training of a doula, postpartum doula, midwife, or childbirth
educator. This course will provide information on how to support,
promote and protect breastfeeding. The benefits and initiation of
breastfeeding are covered, and when to make appropriate referrals to a
health care provider. Introductory course is designed to acquaint the
learner with the evidence for best practices in infant feeding.
Prerequisites: None - This is an open enrollment course open to all prospective students.
Computer Requirements: Click here
Non credit, 3 week graded pass/fail course, 20 hour course, certificate of completion awarded if 80% of course objectives are met.
Tuition: $190.00
Fall Term: 9/20 - 10/10/2010
Required Textbooks
Breastfeeding Made Simple by Nancy Mohrbacher
You also will need Breastfeeding Comprehensive DVD click mothers & others single license
(this DVD will also be used to show your future clients)
Recommended
The Breastfeeding Answer Book 3rd Edition by Mohrbacher, Stock & Newman (La Leche League) |
LACT 602 Lactation Counseling Education
This course follows the education recommended in the subjects and disciplines listed on the International Board Certification for Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) Exam Blueprint for the IBCLC examination.
This course is designed to build on the learner’s knowledge of the
evidence for best practices in infant feeding, and developing
counseling and clinical skills to support the breastfeeding mother in
optimal breastfeeding practices and in overcoming common
difficulties.
The course will include:
- Didactic
instruction in non-verbal communication skills, use of open questions
and reflective responses, and use of empathetic and non-judgmental
responsiveness.
- Clinical skills
development will build on previously acquired skills in mother and
infant positioning, assessing breastfeeding success and identification
of common difficulties encountered by mothers.
- Identification
of common anatomical variations in mother and baby will be
introduced. Deviations and problems requiring more advanced
preparation will be discussed to facilitate appropriate management and
referral. Interventions which are effective in resolving common
difficulties will be discussed and demonstrated in the context of case
studies.
- Orientation to the use of
technology in support of breastfeeding will include the use of nipple
shields, breast pumps, and supplemental feeding devices.
Prerequisites: LACT 0201 Intro to Lactation
or experience with nursing mothers (excludes personal breastfeeding
experience) such as La Leche League leader. Instructor permission
required to waive LACT 0201.
Computer Requirements: Click here
Tuition: $760.00
Six-credit, graded 10 week course, 90 hour course that follows the Clinical Competencies for IBCLC Practice
This
is a college level course that is very time intensive. Plan on spending
10-15 hours a week of focused study to complete and pass.
Fall Term:10/11 - 12/19
Required Textbooks
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