Effective Outreach Strategies For African American Women

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="041a11c3.gif"> <div> <IMG SRC="03f82820.gif" border=0 width="130" height="130" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 2707 E. 21st Street</div> <div> Wichita, KS 67214</div> <div> (316) 691-0249</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Center for Health and Wellness"><U>Return Home</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Our Mission Statement</U></B></div> <div> To provide quality family health care through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Our Core Values</U></B></div> <div> Respect and Reverence for ALL Persons</div> <bR> <div> Quality and Excellence</div> <bR> <div> Community (Connection)</div> <bR> <div> Education Emphasis</div> <bR> <div> Holistic Health</div> <bR> <div> Availability and Improved Access</div> <bR> <div> Serving the Under served</div> <bR> <bR> <div> webmaster: Regina McCarty</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#003366" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Center for Health and Wellness</B></FONT>     <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CCCC66" FACE="Arial" >|   <A HREF="default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Center for Health and Wellness"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Effective Outreach Strategies For African American Women </div> <div> Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Wichita, KS</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d0984d0.jpg" border=0 width="408" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>AGENDA</B></div> <div> <B>Effective Outreach Strategies for Early Cancer Detection</B></div> <div> <B>within the African-American Community</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>8:00 a.m. - Registration and Check-In</B></div> <div> <B>9:00 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction</B></div> <div> <B>9:30 a.m. - Current Screening Rates in the African-American Population-</B></div> <div> <I><B>Henri Menager, MD, MPH, Cancer Epidemiologist,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Kansas Department of Health and Environment</B></I></div> <div> <B>10:00 a.m. - Break</B></div> <div> <B>10:30 a.m. - </B><I><B>Dr. David Williams</B></I><B>, PhD, Professor of Public Health and</B></div> <div> <B>African-American Studies, Harvard University</B></div> <div> <B>11:30 a.m. - Lunch/Networking</B></div> <div> <B>1:00 p.m. - </B><I><B>Dr. Mary Lou Adams</B></I><B>, BSN, MSN, Associate Professor of</B></div> <div> <B>Clinical Nursing at the University Texas at Austin School of Nursing</B></div> <div> <B>2:15 p.m. - Break</B></div> <div> <B>2:30 p.m. - “Taking Care of Ourselves and Others”</B></div> <div> <I><B>Jodi Olson, MPH, King County, Seattle, Washington Outreach Program</B></I></div> <div> <B>4:30 p.m. - Adjourn</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Purpose: </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#C0DCC0" FACE="Arial" >Screening rates for breast cancer in African-American women are 22 percent below rates for</FONT></div> <div> Whites in Kansas. The purpose of this conference is to provide education and information about how to</div> <div> recruit women and to learn effective strategies and methods that will work within this specific population.</div> <div> The conference will include speakers who can provide motivation, information and how-to strategies for</div> <div> accomplishing the goal of raising screening rates for African-American women.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Who should attend: </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#C0DCC0" FACE="Arial" >Anyone interested in effective outreach to the African-American community</FONT></div> <div> including outreach workers, clinical administrators, parish nurses, service providers, health department staff</div> <div> or others interested in cancer prevention and screening.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Registration: </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#C0DCC0" FACE="Arial" >Complete the registration form on the back of this brochure to reserve your place to attend</FONT></div> <div> the conference. The cost to attend is $10, payable by cash, money order or credit card. See the registration</div> <div> form on the back for more details.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Location: </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#C0DCC0" FACE="Arial" >The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 400 West Waterman in downtown</FONT></div> <div> Wichita, Kansas.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Hotel Information: </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#C0DCC0" FACE="Arial" >A guest block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Regency for those conference</FONT></div> <div> attendees who plan to spend the night. Rooms are available for $86 per night <B>until September 30,</B></div> <div> <B>2008. </B>Call the Hyatt at 316-293-1234 or 1-800-233-1234 to reserve your room. Please ask for the conference</div> <div> rate when booking your room.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Dr. David Williams, PhD </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#C0DCC0" FACE="Arial" >is a Professor of Public Health and African and African-American</FONT></div> <div> Studies of Sociology at Harvard University. He is an internationally recognized authority on social</div> <div> influences on health. His research has focused on trends and determinants of socioeconomic and</div> <div> racial disparities in health, the effects of racism on health and the ways in which religious involvement</div> <div> can affect health. He is the author of more than 150 scholarly papers in leading journals in sociology,</div> <div> psychology, medicine, public health and epidemiology. The “Journal of Black Issues in Higher</div> <div> Education” ranked him as the second most cited black scholar in the Social Sciences in 2006 and</div> <div> 2007. He serves on a number of committees, boards and organizations, including the executive staff</div> <div> director of the recently announced Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a</div> <div> Healthier America. This national, independent and nonpartisan health commission is focusing on</div> <div> evidence-based, non-medical strategies - both short and long-term - that can improve the health of all</div> <div> Americans and reduce socioeconomic and racial/ethnic gaps in health.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> <B>Jodi Olson, MPH </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#C0DCC0" FACE="Arial" >is the Public Health Educator in the Women’s Health Unit of the Washington Breast and Cervical</FONT></div> <div> Health Program in King County in Seattle, Washington. She co-authored the “Taking Care of Ourselves and Each Other-</div> <div> Community Education Curriculum: Breast Cancer Screening” guide which targets mammogram screening for African-</div> <div> American women. Jodi holds a Bachelor of Science in Community Health from Mankato State University and a Master’s in</div> <div> Public Health from the University of Washington. She has been a health educator for 29 years including nine years as</div> <div> Program Manager for the American Lung Association of Washington implementing programs for people with COPD and</div> <div> children with asthma and 13 years as Manager of Community Health Education Programs at Swedish Medical Center in</div> <div> Seattle, developing the patient/family and community health education program for their medical centers.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Conference Speakers:</B></div> <div> <B>A. Henri M?nager, MD, MPH </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#C0DCC0" FACE="Arial" >received his degree of Doctor in Medicine in 1986 from the</FONT></div> <div> State University of Haiti (Universite d’Etat d’Haiti). He also graduated from the University of</div> <div> Illinois in 1997 where he earned a Master’s degree in Public Health. Dr. M?nager currently works</div> <div> as the Epidemiologist and Data Manager for the Cancer Control and Prevention Program at the</div> <div> Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). Prior to this assignment he worked as the</div> <div> main evaluator for the community health interventions of the Office of Health Promotion (OHP) at</div> <div> KDHE. In that position he also provided data support to the diabetes prevention and control</div> <div> program of OHP. Dr. M?nager has more than 20 years of experience in public health, including ten years implementing</div> <div> primary health care programs for low income populations in Haiti and six years providing technical assistance to local</div> <div> communities in Kansas. He co-authored three publications on effective primary health care infrastructures in developing</div> <div> countries. He is a certified instructor of epidemiology and biostatistics and is on the faculty of Highland Community College</div> <div> where he teaches Human Anatomy and Human Physiology.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>