Delivering Change: Healthy Moms-Healthy Babies through the Geary County Perinatal Coalition and Riley County Perinatal Coalition will be putting on there 3rd Annual Perinatal Educational Conference Friday.

The theme for this years conference is “When Opportunity Rocks” and it will cover a number of topics including Preeclampsia Update: Pregnancy Can Kill or Maim You; Perinatal Trauma and Challenge: Tending Mothers, Tending Others; An Improved Understanding of Child Maltreatment and Improving Resources; Obesity in Pregnancy; and Delivering Solutions: Tobacco Cessation.

Jill Nelson, Geary County Perinatal Coalition Program Director explained that the topics are based on what they believe the community wants to learn about.

“We know if there is something that is of interest to us at the local level that it’s probably something that everyone across the state is interested in learning about as well,” said Nelson. “But we’ve always try to drive it from the perspective of what did we hear and what did our community want to learn about.”

Nelson is expecting approximately 85 participants from across the state to attend this years conference. It is being held at the Geary County Convention Center.