LLCC is proud to be an official continuing education provider site for paramedic, basic and advanced level EMTs through endorsement from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

We offer affordable and convenient in-person CE opportunities on a revolving basis to keep your knowledge fresh and relevant in the field. These courses are intended to provide EMTs the chance to review specific components of training within their scope of practice. All courses are provided by knowledgeable and highly trained instructors. 

Who should take this training?

Any EMT looking to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to help fulfill their continuing education requirements.

Where are classes held?

All classes are held in-person on the LLCC Springfield campus, 5250 Shepherd Road, in Logan Hall. 

Continuing Education Units 

CEUs will be earned on an hour-per-hour basis for the four-hour classes. The eight-hour classes will earn seven hours as there is a break for lunch. 

• Four-hour class = four hours of CEUs
• Eight-hour class = seven hours of CEUs

You will receive a transcript of your continuing education courses via email within 30 days after course completion.

Registration and cost

Pricing is on a sliding scale. The more hours you register for, the lower the cost per hour. Class dates, prices, registration details and cancellation policies will be available through the registration links. 

Popular topics for EMT-Basic include

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• Pathophysiology
• Assessment
• Pharmacology
• Behavioral Health
• Trauma

Popular topics for EMT-Advanced include

CEUs for this level only available spring semester.

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• Pharmacology
• Trauma
• Special populations

Popular topics for paramedics include

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• Pathophysiology
• Acid/base
• Patient assessment
• Cardiology
• Trauma patient management
• Psychiatric disorders
• Hemorrhage, shock and fluid resuscitation
• Pediatrics

Specialty certification classes

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• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
• Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Geriatric Education for EMS (GEMS)

2024 CNA Instructor Conference - Holistic Education

Register now

Registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendees. Walk-ins will not be admitted.

• Registration fee is $175 until March 29, 2024, after this date registration will be raised to $195.
• Deadline to register and complete payment is April 12, 2024.

Date

• Friday, April 26, 2024.
• Meet-and-greet: Thursday, April 25, 2024, 7-9 p.m.

Location

President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center, Springfield, IL

Hotel Information

President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center, 701 E Adams St., Springfield, IL 62701.

Parking

There is a parking garage located next to the hotel. You pay for parking each time you leave the garage. Parking rate is $1 per hour or $7 per day (24 hours). You may park on any level but Level 2 has direct access to the hotel. Use a credit card as the entry ticket to the garage to get the gate to go up.

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About

Join your fellow Illinois CNA instructors to rejuvenate your minds and classrooms as ideas are shared to meet your students where they’re at. This year’s conference will focus on holistic education and teaching to the whole student.

Agenda

• 7:30-8:00 a.m. – Conference check-in & vendor area opens 
• 7:55-8:00 a.m. – Welcome/announcements  
• 8:00-9:15 a.m. – Keynote: Allison Roeser, MHS & PCC
• 9:15-9:30 a.m. – Break (vendors open)
• 9:30-10:45 a.m. – IDPH updates, Randy Carey-Walden, MSN, BSN, RN, CCM 
•  10:45-11:15 a.m. – SIUC updates, Darin Barham, M.S.Ed
• 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Lunch: CNAEA officer introductions and updates (vendors open)
• 12:30-1:30 p.m. – SIU Education Coordinators, Beth Young, MSN-Ed., RN & Tabitha Reeise, MSN Ed. RN
• 1:30-1:45 p.m. – Break (vendors available) 
• 1:45-2:35 p.m. – Breakout sessions
• 2:35-2:45 p.m. – Break
• 2:45-3:45 p.m.  – Q&A: Please use this time to ask questions to our experts.  NOTE: submit questions in advance with form below.
• 3:45-4:00 p.m. – Evals, certificates, closing announcements  
• 4:00-4:30 p.m. – Vendors available 

Total CEUs=6

Questions for our experts

If you have questions you would like to ask our panel of experts (DPH, Education Coordinators, SIU-C Testing, or CNAEA) please submit your questions in advance via the online form. Questions will be collected and given to our presenters so they can provide a thorough and accurate answer. Thanks for your cooperation.

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Keynote

It’s All Connected: How Social-Emotional Learning Supports Academic Achievement

Presenter: Allison Roeser, MHS, PCC

Certified Nurse Assistants (CNA) are an invaluable part of the healthcare team. Our teaching and training approach of future CNAs is most effective when it is comprehensive and can address the whole student. This keynote will discuss how to support students holistically, with a focus on social-emotional learning. There will be a specific emphasis on creating connection and engagement with students to help motivate and bolster academic content. Strategies will address working with students from various backgrounds with complex lives and competing priorities. You’ll walk away with strategies that are easy to use, appropriate for various learning settings and can be applied immediately, to bring more ease to your students' experience as well as your own.

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About the keynote presenter: 

Allison Roeser is an education consultant, leadership coach and author of Social-Emotional Learning Starts with Us: Empowering Teachers to Support Students. Ms. Roeser started her career in Chicago Public Schools designing life skills and health education courses. She previously served as the Deputy Director at Westat, a research organization, where she directed studies focused on health and education. Allison is passionate about healthcare and supporting learners through holistic education. She is also co-founder of SEL&Beyond, an organization dedicated to providing Social-Emotional Learning professional development and coaching. She holds a Master of Health Science (MHS) degree from Johns Hopkins University and Professional Coach Certification (PCC) from the International Coaching Federation.

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Breakout Sessions

Breakout 1: It’s All Connected 2.0

Presenter: Allison Roeser, MHS, PCC

This session will be a deeper-dive of the keynote presentation. Participants will look at how Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) can personally support their teaching experience. We will review strategies more in-depth and see which of the five SEL competencies participants want to incorporate into their instruction. Participants will leave with an understanding of where they are on their own personal SEL journey in addition to simple strategies to incorporate into their instruction.

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Breakout 2: A Holistic Education for Optimal Patient-Centered Care

Presenter: Pam Di Vito-Thomas, Ph.D., RN

Holistic care in nursing is a philosophy that guides person-centered care calling attention to the “whole person” including the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit. And, the care provided addresses the patients' physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs to restored their health and improve their lives. The relationship between a holistic-care provider and a patient is based on relative openness, equality, and mutuality. Encouraging patients to participate in self-care is another aspect of holistic care that leads to hope, dignity, self-esteem, self-sufficiency, self-regulation, personal growth, vigor, and vitality (Niever et al, 2020). By undertaking and grasping the meaning of holistic care, CNA instructors can incorporate holistic care in nursing syllabi and move towards appreciating students' potencies in the learning process. Notably, Hok-Ko Pong (2021) found in a longitudinal mixed-method study that:

1. Holistic education has impact the transformation of the students' character values (intrinsic religiosity with deep faith-planted inside).
2. Able to control emotion, self-motivated, care, and well-socialized.
3. The improvement of academic achievement.
4. Tough in facing problems, not easy of being hopeless, stressful, or frustrated.

An active-learning session is proposed to share insights into holistic education for CNA Instructors to lead in promoting the “whole person” graduate who will positively impact patient-centered care in a variety of healthcare settings.

Note: If you attending this session please bring a current copy of your class syllabi.

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Breakout 3: Holistic Dementia Care

Presenter: Aishling Dalton Kelly, CECM, CDP, CADDCT, CFRDT

This presentation highlights the importance of Individuality when delivering care to a person with Dementia. As care providers we frequently treat everyone with dementia the same way when in fact the complete opposite approach needs to happen. Dementia may be the overarching common denominator title to the disease but CNAs need to understand that a person’s/patients culture, life styles, spirituality, inclusive of their likes, dislikes and past routines are the key to each CNAs success when providing care. Hundreds of thousands have dementia but it is each individuals personality that sets their care assessment apart . The importance of understanding the unspoken language of Dementia, in conjunction with a comprehensive understanding of what is being communicated but not necessarily verbalized is the key to connection and empathy between patients and CNAs . Communication is the vital component and key to success or failure of everything in life. In this presentation health care providers will fully comprehend and recognize the genuine value to quality communication skills and how to read between the lines.

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Breakout 4: Holistic Transition: Teaching End of Life Care

Presenter: Ruth Ann Reel, M.Ed, RN & Eniola Akagbosu, MSN, RN

Teaching end of life care can be challenging for both the instructor and students. Creating a platform for interactive discussion using story-based learning strategies to teach end of life care could make the classroom experience easier. Through focusing on the different aspects of holistic patient care the instructor can create a lesson plan that will be tailored to the needs of the students.

2024 Peaceful Partners Illinois Domestic Violence Conference - Economic Justice

LLCC is proud to host, in partnership with Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Illinois Certified Domestic Violence Professionals, and Sojourn Shelter and Services, the 2024 Peaceful Partners Illinois Domestic Violence Conference - Economic Justice. This conference will feature  Kim Pentico and the full five-module Moving Ahead financial planning curriculum for DV advocates and other professionals tasked with helping survivors recover from the effects of economic abuse. In addition, Ashley Slye will offer a health care and human services piece by examining the impact of domestic violence and it's intersections with HIV, other identities and social determinants of health.

Register now

• Registration is required. Walk-ins will not be admitted. Seats are limited.
• Registration fee is $129 (includes lunch.)
• Deadline to register, pay or cancel and receive a refund is Friday, Aug. 23 at 4:30 p.m.

Date

Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Location

Lincoln Land Community College, Trutter Center, 5250 Shepherd Road, Springfield, IL

Hotel Information

• Drury Inn & Suites, 3180 S. Dirksen Parkway, Springfield, IL 62703, 217-529-3900
• Hilton Garden Inn, 3100 S Dirksen Pkwy, Springfield, IL 62703, 217-529-7171
• Holiday Inn Express & Suites, 3050 S Dirksen Pkwy, Springfield, IL 62703, 217-529-7771
• Crown Plaza, 3000 S Dirksen Pkwy, Springfield, IL 62703, 217-529-7777
• La Quinta, 1121 Lejune Dr, Springfield, IL 62703, 217-697-5686

 

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Agenda

7:45-8 a.m. - Conference Check-In
7:55-8 a.m. - Welcome
8-9:15 a.m. - Keynote with Kim Pentico
9:15-9:30 a.m. - Break
9:30-10:30 a.m. - Understanding Financial Abuse with Kim Pentico
10:30-10:45 a.m. - Break
10:45-11:45 a.m. - Breakout Session 1 (see description below)
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. - Lunch (provided as part of conference registration)
1-2 p.m. - Breakout Session 2 (see description below)
2-3:15 p.m. - Breakout Session 3 (see description below)
3:15-3:30 p.m. - Break
3:30-4:30 p.m. - Wrap up

CEUs (375 minutes) available for IL Certified DV Professionals (CDVP), Counselors (LCP & LCPC), Social Workers (SW & LCSW), Nurses (LPN, RN, NP), Occupational Therapists (OTA/OT), IL Massage Therapists (LMT), & Nursing Home Administrators (NHA).

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Speakers

Kim Pentico, Economic Justice Senior Director, NNEDV

Kim has been working with and on behalf of survivors of sexual and domestic violence since 1990. She first spent over seven years working for a local domestic violence program in Kansas and another seven years at the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. She has also worked for the STOP Technical Assistance Project in Washington, DC. Kim works to ensure and enhance survivor access to economic justice and long-term safety.

Ashley Slye, Deputy Director of Positively Safe and Domestic Violence Counts, NNEDV

Ms. Slye has supported Positively Safe, a program that addresses the intersection of HIV and domestic violence, since it was founded in 2010. Ms. Slye has been instrumental in the development of NNEDV’s DV & HIV curriculum, toolkit, topical trainings, and webinars for domestic violence and HIV advocates. Ms. Slye has expanded the Positively Safe Project over the past five years to include a demonstration project with the Rwanda Women’s Network which aims to challenge the global narrative on the intersection of gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. Additionally, Ms. Slye oversees the Domestic Violence Counts project, which is an annual, one-day count of survivors accessing domestic violence services.

In addition to managing two national projects for NNEDV, Ms. Slye also sits on the board of the Global Network of Women’s Shelters, providing support for the global helplines project, Lila.help, and development of resources and webinars. Prior to joining NNEDV, Ashley supported the transitional housing program at the Women’s Resource Center of the New River Valley.

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Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session One: 10:45-11: 45 a.m. 

Learning Financial Fundamentals with Kim Pentico

For those who would like to delve a bit deeper into financial planning this module of the Moving Ahead Curriculum covers financial resources and services available to DV victims, the concepts of budgeting and saving including how to navigate various emotions that may occur during this time. Module 2 also covers other introductory financial concepts such as assets and liabilities and highlights important things to consider for DV victims when reviewing and choosing financial institutions.

Changing the Narrative at the Intersection of Domestic Violence & HIV with Ashley Slye

Victims of domestic violence are at an increased risk for acquiring HIV and women living with HIV experience domestic violence at rates higher than the general population (Campbell JC, Soeken K. 1999; Machtinger 2012). For someone experiencing IPV, they may experience reproductive coercion as part of the abuse they endure and, therefore, may not have control over their sexual health, which can lead to acquiring STIs, including HIV. Therefore, we see a need for DV advocates to gain an understanding of health equity, access to health care, and connecting survivors to HIV supportive and preventative care.  
 
During this presentation, attendees will gain knowledge on health equity and barriers to health care, the dynamics of IPV and how it intersects with HIV, understand the financial impacts and supports for folks living with HIV, understand the importance of PrEP for victims, outline initial steps for creating partnerships with HIV organizations in their communities, and discuss how recent legal decisions impact safety and health for victims of IPV. 

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Breakout Session Two: 1-2 p.m. 

Mastering Credit Basics with Kim Pentico

This module of the Moving Ahead Curriculum reviews the basics of credit including credit reports and scores, improving your credit score, and understanding bankruptcy. This module discusses the unique credit issues that domestic violence survivors may face and strategies for overcoming or minimizing these potential challenges. Lastly, the module covers how to build credit moving forward and how to locate helpful resources.

Our Intersectional Identities Beyond DV with Ashley Slye 

When survivors seek our support, they usually aren’t only dealing with the impact of domestic violence but come with the challenges of housing access, financial limitations, medical needs, and more. But what are we doing to address those needs and see the realities in which they live? Each person brings various identities with them, whether that is a survivor or an advocate – race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, education level, health experiences, etc.  
 
Acknowledging the whole person and the breadth of their needs is critical not only for improved outcomes but better relationships, leaning into a trauma-informed, survivor-driven lens. Together, we will explore how we meet the ever-evolving needs of survivors and consider how we’re involving survivors in our services.

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Breakout Session Three: 2-3:15 p.m. 

Financial Foundations & Long-Term Planning with Kim Pentico

The Moving Ahead curriculum modules 4 & 5 review more advanced financial management principles such as loans and loan options, , housing options and costs, saving/budgeting strategies, insurance, and investment options. The focus on these 2 modules is helping survivors reach financial independence by educating survivors on their rights, responsibilities, and resources that may be available to assist them.

The Economic Impact of Social Determinants of Health with Ashley Slye

The economic impact of intimate partner violence can last years due to destroyed credit, lack of employment, and medical bills. But the economic challenges go beyond the abuse. Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) can affect the financial stability of survivors – from lack of safe, affordable housing, to food insecurity and access, to education and job opportunities 
 
As a social determinant of health, domestic violence plays a role in the health and well-being of survivors even after leaving an abusive relationship; coupled with other SDHs, survivors are at an economic disadvantage. For some survivors, leaving an abusive relationship can lead to a loss of resources, including housing and health insurance, and lead to poverty. When survivors do not have access to safe, affordable housing, they often return to an abusive partner. In 2005, 50% of US cities surveyed reported that domestic violence was the primary cause of homelessness.  
 
Social Determinants of Health aren’t just impacting our physical and mental health but also our financial health, taking a toll on our overall quality of life and well-being. Together, we will explore the social determinants of health, their economic impact and where they intersect with domestic violence.