Child Abuse Prevention Month: How Health Care Professionals Can Support Children in Foster Care

Wilmington, DE US
April 16, 2024

Kristine Fortin, MD, MPH is an attending physician and Medical Director of the Fostering Health Program at Safe Place: Center for Child Protection and Health at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Today she will discuss the unique challenges to healthcare access that children in foster care face along with strategies to advocate for patient care, practice, and policy changes to improve the wellbeing of children in foster care.

Target Audience

Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Law Enforcement, Legal Professionals

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity participants will be able to:

  1. Recognize the health care needs and unique health care access barriers children in foster care can experience.
  2. Describe how professionals and systems can deliver trauma informed care to families involved with foster care.

Practice Change: Devise strategies to advocate for patient care, practice, and policy changes to improve the wellbeing of children in foster care.

Contact Information:

  • For questions Nemours Children's Health CARE Program, please contact Stephanie Deutsch, MD | stephanie.deutsch@nemours.org
  • For technical questions regarding this course please contact Betsy Lee | betsy.lee@nemours.org
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 MOC ABS – Surgery
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    The Nemours Foundation is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The Nemours Foundation designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 ANCC Nursing Contact Hour

    Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

    This activity is designated for 1.00 contact hours.

  • 1.00 Continuing Education
    This activity is designated for 1.00 continuing education credits.
Course opens: 
03/01/2024
Course expires: 
05/07/2024
Event starts: 
04/16/2024 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
04/16/2024 - 1:00pm EDT
Cost:
$0.00
Part of: 
Child Abuse Prevention Month Lecture Series
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Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware - 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
1600 Rockland Rd
Wilmington, DE 19803
United States
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Kristine Fortin, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and attending physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is board certified in pediatrics and child abuse pediatrics, and serves as associate fellowship director for CHOP's Child Abuse Pediatrics fellowship. Dr. Fortin is medical director of the Fostering Health Program and a member of the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Foster Care Adoption and Kinship Care. 

Disclosure link: 
Nemours Children's Health Disclosure Policy

Below are the credit types available to you per your professional designation. 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 MOC ABS – Surgery
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    The Nemours Foundation is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The Nemours Foundation designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 ANCC Nursing Contact Hour

    Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

    This activity is designated for 1.00 contact hours.

  • 1.00 Continuing Education
    This activity is designated for 1.00 continuing education credits.

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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