The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services

2008 CIMS Forum: Mother-Friendly Care By All, For All
Mark Your Calendars and Register Today!

Thursday, March 6 - Saturday, March 8
Radisson Worldgate Resort
3011 Maingate Lane
Kissimmee, Florida 34747

Registration is now open! The Program Schedule includes an exceptional array of educational sessions and a new feature for the 2008 Forum -- specialty workshops on Thursday, March 6.

Keynote speakers include Charles S. Mahan, MD, Dean and Professor Emeritus in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida and the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies; Eugene R. Declercq, Ph.D, MBA Council Chair, Boston University School of Public Health; and Jennifer Block, journalist and author of Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care.

The 2008 Forum is about hope! While there will be ample documentation that maternity care is in crisis, the program schedule incorporates numerous examples of people and programs working on innovative and creative solutions. This information will be shared with all attendees along with tools you can use to improve maternity care in your own communities and Make Mother-Friendly Care a Reality®.

The 2008 CIMS Forum has been approved for 17 contact hours from the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA). An application has been submitted to the Florida Nurses Association for approval of 17.0 contact hours. Please call Willa Fuller at The Florida Nurses Association for more information. Attendees will be notified of the number of contact hours that are eligible for each day.

Special Rates Apply for Government employees, students and groups. Register by clicking on the following link:

http://www.acteva.com/go/motherfriendly

Contact Chris Murphy Peck, CIMS Forum Administrator with any questions, chris@motherfriendly.org or 888-282-2467.

Note: We encourage you to make your hotel reservations as soon as possible by calling 1-866-705-7676. Ask for the CIMS Forum rate of $119. This rate will be honored three days before and three days after the Forum so you can take full advantage of the local attractions including Walt Disney World® Resort. For more information on the hotel, log onto http://www.worldgateresort.com/.

CIMS is pleased to announce that the Evidence Basis for the Ten Steps of Mother-Friendly Care, published as a supplement to the Winter issue of The Journal of Perinatal Education, is available to download. Click on the cover image or log onto the Journal's Web Site and click on Volume 16, Supplement I, Winter 2007.

Individual and bulk copies are also available for sale through the Academy of Certified Birth Educators & Labor Support Professionals. Log onto www.acbe.com and hit the "shop" button. All proceeds from copies purchased at ACBE benefit CIMS. Individual copies are also available at the The Lamaze Bookcenter. Lamaze members are entitled to a discount.

You can also download the press release about the findings of the Expert Work Group and the debut of the document on March 8 at the 2007 CIMS Forum and Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia