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August 8, 2023

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The Department of Labor Celebrates National Breastfeeding Month with Power to Pump Campaign. The enactment of the PUMP Act in December 2022 extended critical worker protections to millions more workers. The PUMP Act ensures that almost every nursing worker now has the right to break time and a private space to express breast milk for their nursing child. Read on...

Breastfeeding and Parent Support Class
Shining Mountain Health and Wellness

On July 20th, SWCAHEC participated in one of many breastfeeding and parent support classes hosted by Shining Mountain Health and Wellness. This month’s class, Albuquerque Area Dental Support Center presented about how food effects the oral health of toddlers and led a discussion about oral health promotion and breastfeeding with community members. Classes continue monthly as they provide breastfeeding resources and education while building a community for women to feel safe and connected. SWCAHEC staff members, April and Chelsie are on their way to being a certified lactation counselors in Fall 2023.

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Unlocking the Secrets of High-Conversion Fundraising Texts

Thursday, August 10 at 2:00 p.m. ET

As nonprofits look to reverse last year's decline in year-end online giving and email revenue, text messaging will be relied on more. Four out of five nonprofits now either have a text messaging program or plan to start one.

In new text messaging fundraising data from Tatango, you'll learn the ingredients to high-ROI fundraising texts. You'll see how high-conversion fundraising texts use multimedia (images, video, GIFs), message length, send time, link placement, personalization, and more. We'll also explore if there are common elements in underperforming text messages that nonprofits can learn to avoid.

Attendees will walk away with actionable insights from high-performing fundraising texts that have generated the highest ROI

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C-SSRS TRAINING

Attend a Columbia Protocol Suicide Screening and Assessment Training with Columbia Lighthouse Project, led by Dr. Kelly Posner Grestenhaber! These trainings come at no cost to you. The Columbia Protocol, or C-SSRS, has been implemented widely at state, national, and international levels. These upcoming sessions will focus particularly on youth suicide prevention across Colorado. Below are the confirmed dates and times:

REGISTER HERE

August 1st @ 12pm-1pm

August 9th @ 12pm-1pm

August 14th @12pm-1pm

Registration Form.

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PAST THE PANDEMIC: INDIVIDUAL WELLBEING, CONNECTION AND SUPPORT

This ECHO series offers providers and other staff working in health care and public health settings an opportunity to navigate, normalize and validate worries, stressors and experiences related to various health care environments. Participants will develop an awareness of the manifestations of stress along a continuum. With this framework, each session will provide helpful, tangible tools in a psychoeducational, didactic format to increase capacity, mitigate burnout, elevate connectedness and mindfulness, and promote self-efficacy and quality patient care.

START DATE
8/24/2023
END DATE
9/28/2023
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Perinatal Mental Health:
An Interdisciplinary Approach


This ECHO series supports clinicians who care for pregnant patients in the evaluation and treatment of common mental health conditions and substance use disorders presenting in the perinatal period. Facilitated by a multidisciplinary team including obstetrician gynecologists, perinatal psychiatrists and psychologists, each session will include a brief presentation by an expert followed by interactive Q&A and discussion. Participants will gain confidence and knowledge in addressing the perinatal mental health needs of their patients while building connections with their peers.

Friday, September 15 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM MT


Clinicians who care for pregnant patients in Colorado and surrounding areas



One ECHO session held virtually
Friday, September 15
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM MT

Motivational Interviewing: Intermediate Skills (Summer 2023)


This course builds on the fundamental motivational interviewing concepts learned in Basic Motivational Interviewing. In this course, you will expand your skills related to using OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries). You will build confidence working with resistant clients and learn how to best integrate MI skills into your work setting.

This virtual course includes both online coursework (reading, videos, assignments) as well as weekly Live Learning Sessions via Zoom web conferencing. The live sessions will be highly interactive and include both large and small group practice.

Time commitment: 2-3 hours per week (1-2 hours homework and 1 hour Live Learning Session)

8/2/2023 – 8/30/2023

Live Learning Sessions:
9 am - 10 am MST on Wednesdays
August 9
August 16
August 23
August 30

Nursing Continuing Professional Development
Needs Assessment Survey

It is time, once again, to ask for your input on the educational programs the University of Colorado College of Nursing Office of Continuing Education will provide in the coming year. Please take a few minutes to complete this brief survey by clicking the link below.

https://ucdenver.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3vNgo1QvYLuNUqy

The survey will remain open through Friday, August 11, 2023.

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Seeking Program Director

Job Description for a licensed Mental Health Provider (LPC, LSW, MFT, LCSW/CSW, PSY)

Benefits: Professional development, holidays, sick leave, PTO, Benefits stipend

Office hours: Mon-Thurs. 9:00 am–5 pm, with room for flexibility

Location: Durango, Colorado

Salary: $53,040 - $57,720 depending upon licensing and experience FLSA

Status: 0.75 FTE, Exempt – 30 hours per week


The Program Director will have the opportunity to oversee a combination of pyschosocial, outreach, and education programs, provide screening and brief intervention, and also help shape this non-profit's approach to addressing cancer-related health disparities. Details here.

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Healthcare Job Opportunities in SW Colorado

Mercy Regional Medical Center, Durango, Click HERE

Pagosa Springs Medical Center, Pagosa Springs, Click HERE

Southwest Health System, Cortez, Click HERE

Axis Health System, Durango, Cortez, Pagosa Springs,
Click HERE

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