2015 ICEA MEMBERSHIP

REPORT

2015 PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Fine tuning our foundations (Programs, Position Papers)

Increased inter-organizational collaborations

Promoting a strong social media presence

Maintaining financial stability

Stop by our booth and order your ICEA polo shirt today!

Two great projects that help expectant parents

AND professionals!

The 2015-2016 ICEA Advisory Board

Anne-Marie (Dolly) Wagner, ICCE, CD: ICEA Board Member 2008-2012Chair, Scholarship Committee 2008-Present, Chair, Conference Committee 2010-2012, Childbirth Education Program Coordinator & Educator at MATC 1979-2000, Childbirth Educator at Group Health Cooperative 2000-Present. From Madison, WI Cheri Beth Hollman Grant RN,ICCE, CLC, ICD, CLD, CD BDT(DONA)ICEA Certified CBE and Doula 1989-Present; Founder, Premier Birth Tools; Founder, DONEOK. From Sperry, OK Candy Mueller, ICCE, CDICEA Board Member, 2008-2012; Director of Business DevelopmentFlorida Childbirth Resources. From Palm Harbor, Florida

The 2015-2016 ICEA Advisory Board cont’d

Jeanette Schwartz, RN, ICCE-CD-IAT: ICEA Past President, 2008-2010Clinical Director Maternity Care at Woodwinds Health CampusCo-Founder of JM Birth ConsultantsFrom Shoreview, MN Nicette Jukelevics, ICCEAuthor: Understanding the Dangers of Cesarean Birth: Making Informed Decisions; Webmaster www.vbac.comFrom Los Angeles, CA Deb Codde, IAT-ICCE-ICPFE-ICD, CD (DONA)Owner, Southern Michigan Doulas and Childbirth EducationWebmaster www.michigandoulas.comFrom Marshall, MI

The 2015-2016 ICEA Professional Board

Debra Pascali- Bonaro

Kathy Kendall Tackett

Linda J. Smith

Dr. Sarah Buckley

Birdie Gunyon Meyer

PRESIDENT ELECTDEBRA TOLSON

ICEA IATs Around

The World

2013 Sail-a-bration!

2016

SECRETARYBONITA KATZ

TREASURERMICHELLE HARDY

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC POLICYELIZABETH SMITH

ICEA has signed on with ACNM on the Healthy Birth Initiative. I am now a member of the ACNM HPI task force and am helping to get the information distributed and available to doulas, childbirth educators and lactation consultants.

Other organizations we have looked at to support and to form collaboration include:The White Ribbon Alliance, World Organization Perinatal Education Associations ( OMAEP), Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), Baby Friendly USA, 1000 Days Project, AIMS Ireland, Global Perinatal Initiative, Academy of Women’s Obstetrical Neonatal Nurses (AWOHNN), Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH).

I have responded to the Similac media campaign negatively portrayed breastfeeding women and moms in general. Currently working on a response to the negative article on contaminants in breastmilk. I have worked on group projects to help with the ICEA vendor booth and to help create a speakers bureau. I will continue to review organizations for collaboration and be ready to respond to misinformation in the media.

DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP & MARKETING

JENNIFER SHRYOCK

What have we accomplished?

ICEA ICEAchildbirth

ICEAICEA_org

Increased Interaction & information

#ICEAFAN

Promote, Celebrate & Advocate

What’s New?

HangOut with the President#iceachat 4th Thursday each month 11 am ET

ICEA Members Minute

#iceachat

Continue social media effortsPrepare for 2016 conference

Print advertisingInfographics/branding

Contests

What’s Next???

#iceafan

DIRECTOR OF LACTATIONDONNA WALLS RN, BSN,ICCE, IBCLC, ANLC

BREASTFEEDING EDUCATIONNew Offering: Early Lactation Care Workshop-

offered to childbirth educators and doulas, focus on care and education to get mothers and babies started breastfeeding successfully. 10.5 CEs for completion. One and one half day workshop.

Free to all ICEA members- a 41 slide breastfeeding class with evidence-based information and approved pictures, includes current references.

Added a new breastfeeding tab to the homepage for current information resources and information for parents and professionals

BREASTFEEDING SUPPORTICEA is now represented with 4 members:

Donna Walls, Myra Lowrie, Katrina Pinkerton and Barbara Crotty serving on several committees and constellations.

Monthly breastfeeding blogs are posted on topics including informal milk sharing, the newborn microbiome and the effects of labor interventions

ICEA will be working with ILCA to developed a position paper on safe infant sleep

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONBARBARA CROTTY

PROGRAM UPDATES Professional Childbirth Educator

Fully revised, updated and streamlined.Accessed on ICEA website with your

passcode. Postpartum Doula

Revised and updatedCertification exam added

Birth DoulaUpdated and available online

ICEA POSITION PAPERS All position papers have been updated

by your board members. Post-tests were written for each one, so

that alternate contact hours may be earned.

TEACHING IDEA SHEETS 18 Teaching Idea Sheets have been

revised to be relevant to today’s teachers.

Find them on our website!

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONSAMBER ROMAN

DIRECTORS AT LARGEMYRA LOWRIE &

KATRINA PINKERTON

Myra represents ICEA at the USDA Breastfeeding Promotion Consortium. The group meets in Washington, DC twice yearly. We are a forum for dialogue between professional health organizations, breastfeeding advocacy groups and Federal agencies to promote, support, and protect breastfeeding

Myra served on the Advisory Committee on Community Support for Breastfeeding, which convened by the USBC in 2013-2014 as part of the Best Fed Beginnings project. January 2015 we discussed opportunities and options to continue to convene this Committee, perhaps with a slightly different name/format, beyond the end of the Best Fed Beginnings initiative this past spring. I am pleased to report that we have been able to carry on the conversation through the USBC’s new “Constellation Mode” as the “Continuity of Care” topic. I will continue to represent ICEA at USBC “Continuity of Care” conversation meetings.

Myra is a member of the USBC Formula Marketing conversation. She had the pleasure of a one on one meeting with Eva Seidelman, Researcher Commercial Alert, PublicCitizen.

ICEA Executive Director

Holly Currie

2015 Accomplishments

Cryo cellScholarships/MMIInternational Journal of Childbirth Education

MEMBERSHIP 2015

US ICEA Members:

1,282

Canada: 52

Other Internationa

l: 47

Total ICEA Members

Worldwide: 1,381

CERTIFICATION 2015

Childbirth Educator

Birth Doula

Prenatal Fitness

Postpartum Doula

Childbirth Educator

Total Certified: 900Enrollments in

2015 (@$150): 129

Birth DoulaTotal Certified: 183

Enrollments in 2015 (@$150): 32

Prenatal FitnessTotal Certified: 47

Enrollments in 2015 (@$275):

Postpartum Doula

Total Certified: 11Enrollments in

2015 (@$150): 8

The 2015

ICEA

Awards

The 2015ICEA

Member of the Year

Award

The 2015ICEA

Approved Trainer of the Year

The 2015ICEA

President’s Award

The 2015Doris Haire

Life Time Achievement Award

The ICEA Board of DirectorsThank YOU for your support

of women and familiesAnd

For your constant support of this amazing organization!