Webinar 2025: Annual Conference 2025: “Behavioral Health Across the Lifespan: Implications for Faith Community Nursing Practice and Research”

“Behavioral Health Across the Lifespan:

Implications for Faith Community Nursing Practice and Research”

• Keynote: "Childhood Cancer: 50 years of Providing Trauma-Informed Care"  Kathleen Ruccione, PhD, RN, Professor at Azuza Pacific University, CA, is a career researcher of pediatric cancer. 

  Research Drives Practice: “Forging Communities of Belonging and Hope: An Approach to Support”  Beth Hlabse MS, LMHCA, is director and counselor with the Fiat MH program at the University of Notre Dame, IN. 

  Practice Drives Research: “Trauma-Informed Care: Strategies for FCNs”  Liz Coleman, DNP, FNP, RN is Assistant Professor at Minnesota State University and FNP at MH clinic.

  Closing: “Hills, Hope, and Healing: Mental Health and Faith Community Nursing in Appalachia”  Angel Smothers, DNP, APRN, is Associate Dean and Professor at West Virginia University and a FCN in the community. 

• Upon completion of activities at this conference, learners will be able to:

• 1.     Identify 2 ways nurses can support mental health/behavioral health and well-being in faith communities.
• 2.     Describe 2 ways that nurses use mental health/behavioral resources and tools in faith communities.

• Disclosure:

  Approval Statement: This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

  Learner Outcomes: Upon completion, the learner will be able to:

• 1.        Identify 2 ways nurses can support mental health/behavioral health and well-being in faith communities.
• 2.        Describe 2 ways that nurses use mental health/behavioral resources and tools in faith communities.

Criteria for successful completion: The participant must attend all of the activity and complete the self-evaluation and post-test at 75%.

Relevant financial relationship: This educational activity does not include any content that relates to the products and/or services of an ineligible company with whom there is a financial relationship.

Commercial support: There is no commercial support being received for this event.

Expiration date is 2 years after the origination date, October 18, 2025 to October 17, 2027.

Registration:  Members $145; Non-members $195

You have 10 days to complete the video and submit the self-evaluation and post-test for 1.0 ANCC contact hour.