WCWPDS
Wisconsin Child Welfare Professional Development System

Webinars

September 4, 2025

Bridge to Hope Webinar

Bridge to Hope is a community-based training program designed to help you recognize signs of mental health struggles and suicidal thoughts in others. It equips you with the skills to offer support through empathetic, non-judgmental listening. The core belief behind Bridge to Hope is that everyone has a part to play in preventing suicide—and that human connection is the most powerful remedy for emotional pain.

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This is a LIVE Webinar only

(It will NOT be recorded for future viewing)

 

October 8th, 2025

Understanding & Supporting Families Experiencing Perinatal Loss
Presented by Lindsey Wimmer DNP, CPNP, IPPE-C
The death of a baby during pregnancy or infancy can be one of the most traumatic experiences parents will ever endure. Health professionals who work with these families have an opportunity to provide support and guidance that significantly impacts their grief journey and mental health for years to come. This session will review the unique nature of perinatal loss, how to support bereaved families, and resources that are available for families and health professionals.

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Wisconsin Wayfinder: Children’s Resource Network

Presented by Emily Brach & Michelle Lund
This presentation will address the need for resources for children and youth with special health care needs. It will highlight the creation of Wisconsin Wayfinder: Children’s Resource Network by the Department of Health Services to address those needs to better support families and caregivers. Presenters will provide an overview of how Wisconsin Wayfinder works, who it is for, and how these free, confidential services can be shared and accessed, with a focus on how home visitors can utilize this resource in the communities they serve.
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Improving Response to Reproductive Coercion in Home Visitation and Family Support Settings with Jennifer Haddad

This session will share evidence-based strategies for addressing and responding to reproductive coercion in home visitation and family support settings. Specifically, learners will engage with the CUES framework, which stands for Confidentiality, Universal Education and Empowerment, and Support. CUES offers healing-centered support by talking to all caregivers about safe and healthy relationships in effective and trauma-informed ways. They will learn how to use CUES to have supportive conversations with caregivers about reproductive coercion and discuss strategies for harm reduction. Learners will leave with an understanding of a variety of harm reduction strategies, and their specific safety implications for survivors of intimate partner violence, including options for discrete contraception, safe and timely access to emergency contraception, and prevention medication for HIV.

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Health Literacy: Tools and Strategies for Improving Health Literacy in Early Childhood Programs

Early childhood programs use health literacy strategies to improve communication, reduce health disparities, and advance health equity. Health literacy practices at the personal and organizational levels help families and staff to find, understand, and use health information.

In this session we will introduce the Health Literacy Toolkit for Early Childhood Programs, describe the Health Literacy Guiding Principles for Families, and share strategies for using the toolkit to support positive health outcomes for children, families, and staff in your program.

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Contraceptives Basics

Contraceptive information and services are fundamental to the health and human rights of all individuals. This session will review a contracption sample kit. Each method included in the contraception sample kit will be reviewed with participants to better understand how Home Visitors, PNCC providers, doulas and all Family Support Professionals can discuss these contraceptive options with clients, and assist them using shared decision-making, patient education and client-centered counseling.

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Women’s Health with Dr Mary S. Landry

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Advancing Breastfeeding Health Equity

Join us in learning more about ways to advance health equity during the lactation period.

We know this is the perfect time to uplift the importance of human milk and learn more about the best approaches to support families for initiation and sustaining of human milk during the first year of life.

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Protecting Children from Lead: Prevention, Testing, and Sources

Lead poisoning doesn’t have symptoms and the affects can last a lifetime. Come find out what you can do to help. Learn the common sources of lead poisoning and simple ways families can protect children in their home. Wisconsin recommends children be tested for lead early on in life, find out what those recommendations are and where children can be tested. Finally leave with resources for you and families to provide education and assistance.

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