Children’s Hospital Colorado CU Center for
Bioethics & Humanities Continuing Medical Education Dept Presents:
26th Annual Pediatric Ethics Conference
It Takes a Village: The Role of Pediatric Ethics in the Community

Thursday, May 1- Friday, 2, 2025 • 7:30am to 3:45 p.m.

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Overview
This year’s conference examines the evolving ethical landscape of pediatric healthcare through diverse topics including sustainability, behavioral health, trauma-informed care, neonatal opioid withdrawal, and the intersections of ethics, policy, and law.

Featuring expert-led talks, workshops, and panel discussions, the event provides a platform to explore challenges such as extended stay patients, mental health policies, and professional ethics in the face of legal divergence. Join us to engage with narratives, best practices, and advocacy strategies that strengthen ethical frameworks in pediatric care and community support.

Objectives

• Analyze the ethical issues facing children’s hospitals to enhance understanding and decision-making in clinical practice.
• Evaluate the ethical challenges of meeting the behavioral health needs of youth in Colorado through active discussion and collaboration.
• Analyze the complex interplay of civil, legal, and ethical obligations involved in caring for neonates with opioid withdrawal and their families.
• Evaluate strategies to individually and organizationally navigate clinical scenarios where professional ethics and laws diverge.
• Reflect on narratives encountered in clinical work and identify best practices for engaging these narratives in ethics, research, care, and advocacy.
• Identify examples of how healthcare expertise can inform policy decisions. • Apply ethical principles to analyze and address complex ethical challenges in children’s hospitals.
• Understand the intricacies of the systems that are involved with extended stay patients and the overall impact.
• Integrate trauma-informed care principles into pediatric mental health settings to enhance patient safety, therapeutic engagement, and overall treatment outcomes.
• Identify at least one reason zero tolerance to violence policies are untenable in acute care settings.

Continuing Education Credit
11.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
0.60 ASHA
11.75 Attendance
11.75 NCPD