Date: Wednesday, May 6^th

Time: 10-11:30AM PT / 11AM-12:30PM MT / 12-1:30PM CT /1-2:30PM ET

Speaker: Fayron Epps, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN

Location: Virtual Only

Dr. Fayron shares her personal and professional research journey of walking alongside African American families impacted by dementia, grounded in faith, service, and community wisdom. Drawing from years of community-engaged work, she illustrates how faith communities can serve as trusted partners in breaking stigma, strengthening resilience, and creating spaces of compassion and support. Through heartfelt storytelling and practical insight, Dr. Fayron offers encouragement, time-tested strategies, and tangible steps to foster a culture of care while moving communities forward toward healing, understanding, and hope.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how faith, lived experience, and community-engaged research have shaped culturally grounded approaches to supporting African American families impacted by dementia.
2. Identify at least three ways faith communities can reduce dementia-related stigma and strengthen resilience through compassion, education, and trusted relationships.
3. Apply practical, evidence-informed strategies to foster a sustainable culture of care within congregations and communities that supports individuals living with dementia and their caregivers.

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Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, RUSH University Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Credit Designation Statements

For Medicine: Rush University Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

For Nursing:  Rush University Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.50 nursing contact hour(s).

For Psychologists: Rush University Medical Center designates this live activity for 1.50 CE credits in psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

For Dietitians: This live activity has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration. Completion of this activity awards 1.50 CPEUs.

For Social Work:  As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Rush University Medical Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved continuing education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.50 general continuing education credits.

For physical therapy or occupational therapy: RUSH University Medical Center is an approved provider for physical therapy (216.000378) and occupational therapy (224.000220) by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation.

Rush University Medical Center designates this live activity for 1.50 continuing education credits.

NBCC Credit:  RUSH University Medical Center is an approved provider by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC ACEP No. 7599). This activity has been approved for 1.50 NBCC credit hours.

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Rush University designates this live activity for (1.5) Continuing Education credits.

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