Schalisha Walker, a youth adviser at Project Everlast, and three Project Everlast Youth Council members will join Maggie Neujahr, a social worker with the Munroe-Meyer Institute, for a Schwartz Center Rounds presentation on “Caring for Foster Children.”
The Feb. 20 event will be from 11:50 a.m.-12:50 p.m. in Eppley Science Hall, Room 3010.
Fostering the Future, a Legacy Project sponsored by the Office of Community Engagement, and the Schwartz Center Rounds Committee, will host the event. Project Everlast is a statewide, youth-led initiative committed to providing resources, connections and support to young adults as they age out of foster care.
Following the conference learners should be able to:
- Describe strategies to assist youth who are in foster care to navigate the health care system.
- Identify barriers that foster children encounter when accessing the health care system.
- Identify effective communication strategies to improve rapport building when serving children who are in the foster care system.
Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:45 a.m. to the first 70 participants.
The UNMC Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The UNMC Center for Continuing Education designates this live activity for maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits”. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1.0 contact hours will be awarded. Nebraska Medicine is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Participants must be able to attend the entire presentation to receive contact hours. No partial credit will be awarded.