Past Webinar – 31 August 2022
ACCYPN Webinar
Wednesday 31 August 2022 – Partnering with families to keep babies close and safe: the journey of the Queensland Pēpi-Pod® Program so far.
ACCYPN invites you to join Dr Diane Cruice Coordinator with the Queensland Paediatric Quality Council (QPQC), Professor Jeanine Young AM, Professor of Nursing, University of The Sunshine Coast & Lee-Anne OKeefe on a webinar.
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Presentation: Partnering with families to keep babies close and safe: the journey of the Queensland Pēpi-Pod® Program so far.
Date: Wednesday 31 August 2022
Presenters: Dr Diane Cruice Coordinator with the Queensland Paediatric Quality Council (QPQC), Professor Jeanine Young AM, Professor of Nursing, University of The Sunshine Coast & Lee-Anne OKeefe
Time: 3:00 pm QLD / NSW / VIC / ACT (AEST) | 2.30pm SA / NT (AWST) | 1.00pm WA (ACST) (1 CPD Hour) (1/2 hour presentation with 15 minutes Q&A and 15 minutes open discussion)
Attendance: Live Webinar
Cost: Members (Free), Non Members $25.00
Registration: Online Registration
Non-Members to access Member rates please click here and join as a member now and you will be emailed a link to register for the webinar at member rates.
Disclaimer: The webinar will be recorded. As this webinar includes Q&A and open discussion, anyone who participates or has their video turned on may be included in the recording.
Title: Partnering with families to keep babies close and safe: the journey of the Queensland Pēpi-Pod® Program so far
About the Program
The Pēpi-Pod® Program was first introduced in Queensland over a decade ago by a team of researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast (uniSC), led by Professor Jeanine Young. This webinar will follow the journey of the program’s uptake and impact in Queensland during this time.
The Pēpi-Pod® Program is a portable sleep space embedded in safe sleep education together with a family invitation to share what they have learned about protecting babies as they sleep. The pioneering co-designed research conducted by UniSC and the communities with whom they partnered found the program to be acceptable, feasible, safe, and culturally appropriate and improved the safety of infant sleep practices in those communities. A collaborative research project between Queensland Paediatric Quality Council (QPQC), UniSC and University of Auckland was then conducted to examine the impact of the program at a population level on Queensland’s historically high infant mortality rate. The results of this project demonstrated a 75 per cent reduction in the infant mortality (between the ages of 28 days and 6 months) in the Queensland postcode areas where the Pēpi-Pod® Program achieved the highest level of community participation within the target population. A 12-month grant has recently been completed to develop an implementation plan and trial this plan within two Queensland Health sites across maternity and child health services. The learnings from the most recent project collaboration are important in informing recommendations for how the Pēpi-Pod® Program can be scaled across Queensland, and potentially beyond, in a manner which recognises the need to maintain program fidelity and meet the uniqueness of the priority populations it intends to serve through integration with maternal and child health service models currently available.
Presenters BIO’s:
Professor Jeanine Young AM PhD BSc(Hons) RGN RM Neonatal Nurse (ENB 405)
Deputy Head of School – Research, School of Nursing and Midwifery and Paramedicine, University of the Sunshine Coast
Professor Jeanine Young is a registered nurse, midwife, and neonatal nurse with over 30 years of experience in neonatal, paediatric, maternal and child health care. Jeanine has a special interest in how infant care practices impact infant mortality, and in particular breastfeeding, parent-infant bed-sharing and shared sleeping practices. A particular focus of interest is the development of individually tailored, community based, wrap around care interventions to address the multiple disadvantages experienced by families with social vulnerabilities who experience the greatest burden of infant mortality. Jeanine is a ministerial appointment to the Queensland Child Death Review Board. She is also a Member, Consumer Product Injury Research Advisory Group, Queensland Paediatric Quality Council Infant Mortality Subcommittee, and leads UniSc’s NURTURE Maternal and Child Health research theme.
Dr Diane Cruice is a Coordinator with the Queensland Paediatric Quality Council (QPQC), Queensland Health. Diane works primarily with the Infant Mortality Subcommittee to review infant deaths in Queensland, striving towards improved prevention, investigation and family support in the area of Sudden and Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI). Diane has a PhD in Public Health and a clinical background in Speech Pathology. Diane’s research interest is particularly focussed on the social determinants of health and development in children.
