WIC
LactaLearning offers two interactive options for WIC staff training and certification.
Now Offering Certification!
LCE - Lactation Counselor and Educator
This 45 hour professional lactation training is designed to specifically meet the Level Three training needed by WIC staff. This course will cover additional lactation clinical skills building upon the previous Level Two training, as well as focusing on Motivational Interviewing, how to best communicate with our clients for effective interactions.
This virtual course will consist of a hybrid model using an online learning system, Thinkific, and live Zoom Meetings. The participants will be doing 18 hour of pre-work lessons and assignments, meeting for two days of live Zoom meetings, doing another 6 hours of online pre-work, and then meeting for a final day of a live Zoom meeting. A final quiz and evaluation will finish this training. The goal of the course is to be able to take the theoretical clinical knowledge and be able to apply these skills to the actual work with families.
What does it mean to be a certified LCE?
Certification guarantees that the person has:
- Completed a top-quality professional training program, focused on lactation and communication skills
- Demonstrated competency regarding core relevant knowledge through activities and a 47 question test
- Agreed to abide by a defined Scope of Practice for an LCE (see below)
Certification Requirements
- Complete 45-hour training course, focused on lactation and communication skills
- Review lessons and turn in assignments of self-paced pre-work components
- Attend and engage in live group training days
- Pass test to show knowledge and understanding
- Agree to Abide by the LCE Scope of Practice
Recertification
In order to maintain your LCE credential, you may choose any of these options within 5 years of your initial certification and subsequent recertification dates:
- Retake the LCE course
- Earn 25 L- or E-CERPs, and pay fee of $75
- Include your proof of CERPs completed
- Gain CCLS credential through LactaLearning
- Gain IBCLC credential
- Send us your IBCLC number upon initial certification. If you do not maintain IBCLC status, you may use either of the above options to recertify as an LCE.
LCE Scope of Practice based upon the Breastfeeding Scope of Practice by WIC Staff Level Three. LCEs may:
- Refer to health care provider for persistent nipple pain not resolved with latching and positioning help
- Help with latching and positioning
- Help with flat or inverted nipples
- Help with alternative feeding devices
- Help with engorgement
- Refer to health care provider and help with mastitis
- Help with plugged ducts
- Help with supporting lactation with diabetes, thyroid conditions, pituitary dysfunction, being over weight, nursing while pregnant, and HIV/AIDs
- Help with weaning
- Help with providing medication information from Hale's Medications and Mother's Milk
- Help with maintaining ongoing milk supply
- Help support a baby with jaundice
- Help with multiples
- Help support a baby with infant thrush
- Help support a baby with allergies
- Help support a baby with food intolerances
- Help support a baby with lactose overload
- Help with supplemental feedings
- Help with informal milk sharing
- Help with bottle feeding
- Help with pacifier use
- Help with reflux
- Help with abrupt weaning
- Help with inadequate weight gain
- Help with preterm babies over 34 weeks gestation
- Help with weight gain issues
WIC Senior Peer Counselor Training
Barbara Robertson, MA, IBCLC has developed a new 3 day training for WIC staff!
This training is designed to provide WIC Peer Counselors more information and experience in the areas of:
- The benefits of breastfeeding
- Motivational Interviewing- Communication skills
- Ethics- The role and responsibility of the WIC Peer Counselor
- How to establish an effective breastfeeding class and support group
- Assessing and breastfeeding mother and baby
- Mentoring of WIC Peer Counselors
- Identify barriers and finding solutions to breastfeeding problems
- A new look at latching and positioning
- Working and breastfeeding
- Working within WIC Peer Counselor Scope of Practice
LactaLearning Book Groups
Increase your staff’s clinical knowledge and skills via live interactive Zoom sessions with the authors of some of the top books in the lactation field. Our book groups are the perfect way to integrate the latest information into daily practice.
Depending on group size, options for WIC staff include:
• schedule a book group for WIC staff entirely from your state
• to share costs, schedule a book group for WIC staff from several states
• enroll WIC staff as individuals in a previously scheduled book group for lactation supporters in a variety of settings
Time commitment and number of CERPs vary by book. For details, click on a book cover below.
Motivational Interviewing for WIC Stall and Community Partners
What you will get from this program
- 5 L-CERPs
- Fulfills the Communication Skills requirement for Becoming an IBCLC
- Convenience of online learning combined with the community of live Zoom work
- Access to support materials
- Passionate, knowledgeable instructors who use the latest education methods for effective learning
Description of program
- 5 of live Zoom or In-person Training.
- A short quiz at the end of the program
- An evaluation to be completed at the end of the program
Ethics for Lactation Professionals or Ethics for WIC Peer Conselors
What you will get from this program
- 5 or 8 E-CERPs depending on which program you choose
- Fulfills the Lactation Education requirement for Becoming an IBCLC
- Convenience of online learning combined with the community of live Zoom work
- Access to support materials
- Passionate, knowledgeable instructors who use the latest education methods for effective learning
Description of program
- 5 or 8 hours of live Zoom or In-person Training.
- A short quiz at the end of the program
- An evaluation to be completed at the end of the program