The Healthy Steps^SM Interactive Multimedia Training & Resource Kit

Healthy Steps for Young Children is very pleased to announce the release of the Healthy Steps Interactive Multimedia Training & Resource Kit—DVD/CD-ROM Edition. The fully interactive CD-ROM will now be packaged with a single DVD that contains nine video segments, a revised printable User Manual, and all information, including examination booklets, needed to receive Continuing Medical Education credits and Contact Hours for Nurses. Better still, we have reduced the price from $350 to $99 (plus shipping and handling). Buyers of either the old or the new versions can purchase additional CD-ROMs for $15 each plus shipping and handling and additional DVDs for $25 each plus shipping and handling. Click here for ordering information. .

The Healthy Steps Interactive Multimedia Training & Resource Kit contains a user's manual, a set of nine videos, and a fully interactive, multimedia CD-ROM that takes the user from an introduction to Healthy Steps to on-screen examples of how Healthy Steps Specialists interact with families. The kit contains downloadable written materials to distribute to parents. In addition to gaining an understanding of Healthy Steps, medical professionals that use the kit can earn Continuing Medical Education credit for physicians through the Boston University School of Medicine and Continuing Education Units for nurses through Advocate Health Care.

USER'S MANUAL

The User’s Manual provides an overview of the Healthy Steps approach, a breakdown of the kit’s features, CD-ROM instructions, and study guides tailored to each of the nine units covered in the kit. The User’s Manual is on the new DVD.

VIDEOCASSETTES / DVD VIDEO SEGMENTS

Nine videocassettes introduce the main concepts of Healthy Steps and show how it is being used in medical practices. These videocassettes are found as nine video segments on the new DVD:

1. Healthy Steps: An Overview
2. Starting a Healthy Steps Practice
3. The Healthy Steps Office Visit
4. Healthy Steps Home Visits
5. Teachable Moments: The First Year
6. Teachable Moments: The Toddler Years
7. Gauging a Child's Development
8. Supporting Families: Challenging Times, Challenging Situations
9. Family Factors Affecting Children: Smoking, Depression, Addiction, and Violence

CD-ROM

The CD-ROM enables you to explore the main concepts of each videocassette in greater depth while offering a self-directed and self-paced learning experience. The CD-ROM includes:

• Four major sections: Managing Healthy Steps^SM, Clinical Strategies, Child Development, and Milestones from Birth to Three
• Chapters to support each videocassette
• Interactive case studies
• Video commentaries and examples
• Professional articles
• LINKletters for mothers and fathers (in English and Spanish)
• Parent Prompt Sheets (in English and Spanish)
• Handouts on The First Year (in English and Spanish)
• Handouts on The Toddler Years (in English and Spanish)

ORDERING INFORMATION

The Healthy Steps Interactive Multimedia Training & Resource Kit--DVD/CD-ROM Edition is available for $99, plus $8 shipping and handling. The original Healthy Steps Multimedia Kit, which contains nine separate videocassettes, a CD-ROM, a printed User Manual, and Continuing Education booklets for both physicians and nurses, is still available at a cost of $350, plus $12 shipping and handling. Additional DVDs and CD-ROMs are available to those who have purchased either the DVD/CD-ROM Edition or the original Kit. DVDs sell for $25, plus $5 shipping and handling per disk; CD-ROMs sell for $15, plus $5 shipping and handling per disk.

To order either the DVD/CD-ROM Edition or the original Healthy Steps Multimedia Kit (VHS/CD-ROM), or additional DVDs and CD-ROMs, go to https://co.clickandpledge.com/default.aspx?wid=18406 . If you have any questions, or to inquire about quantity discounts, contact Lisa Zbar at the Independent Production Fund at (800) 727-2470 or by e-mail at info@ipfmedia.org.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Users of the Healthy Steps for Young Children Interactive Multimedia Training & Resource Kit may qualify for Continuing Medical Education credit for physicians through Boston University School of Medicine and Contact Hours for Nurses through Advocate Health Care. Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Advocate Health Care is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

For CME: Boston University School of Medicine Department of Continuing Medical Education 714 Albany Street, A305 Boston, MA 02118-2526 For Contact Hours: Advocate Health Care Healthy Steps for Young Children 205 W. Touhy, Suite 125 Park Ridge, IL 60068

Program Audience

This program is designed for pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, family nurse practitioners, pediatric nurses, family physicians, and physicians assistants.

Educational Needs Addressed

Parents ask many questions concerning developmental issues during primary care visits for infants and toddlers. The Healthy Steps Multimedia Interactive Training and Resource Kit offers strategies to infuse developmentally oriented approaches into primary care engaging a health care clinician and child development specialist in a team approach.

Educational Objectives

After reviewing the Healthy Steps Multimedia Interactive Kit, participants should be able to:

• Identify behavioral problems in the pediatric office.
• Develop knowledge and skills in such developmental issues as language development, discipline, and early learning.
• Determine how resiliency and family risk factors affect developmental outcomes for young children.

Faculty

Margot Kaplan-Sanoff, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine

Steven Parker, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Chair, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center

Marilyn Augustyn, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine

Barry Zuckerman, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Chief, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center

Term of Approval: For Continuing Medical Education--This program was originally released and approved for the term of 3/1/04 through 3/1/07. It has been reviewed and renewed for the approved term of 3/1/07 through 3/1/10. For Continuing Nursing Education—This program was originally released and approved for the term of June 2005 - June 2007. It has been reviewed and renewed for the approved term of January 2007—January 2009.

Accreditation

Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Boston University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Advocate Health Care is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Advocate Health Care designates this educational activity for 18.0 contact hours, for review of all nine video segments and CD-ROM units.

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Development and production of the Healthy Steps Interactive Multimedia Training & Resource Kit was funded by: The Commonwealth Fund; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; The Colorado Trust; The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; The Kansas Health Foundation; The Gordon Russell Fund at the Peninsula Community Foundation; and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.

Copyright 2000 by the Independent Production Fund, Toby Levine Communications, Inc., and the Boston University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics.