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3107.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | ||||
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| This session will review advocacy efforts focusing on improving healthcare and wellness through community coalition, effective partnerships, and public health policy. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Identify effective community partnerships. Improve health through community coalition. Describe how organizations, coalitions, and advocacy groups can achieve a policy agenda and build momentum for environmental change through coordinated efforts. | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Cherie R. Forsha, RN, MSN/MPH, CNS | |||
| Moderator(s): | Selena Smith, MPA | |||
| 10:30 AM |  | Building a policy roadmap for partners to advance organizational practice change and public policy for healthy eating and active living Larry Cohen, MSW, Leslie Mikkelson, RD, MPH, Virginia Lee, MPH, CHES, Jamila Edwards, MPP, Janani Srikantharajah, BA, Jesse Appelman, BA | ||
| 10:50 AM | | Community voices: A photo documentary of health disparities in Roxbury Elmer Freeman, MSW, Katherine Rushfirth, Beverley Russell, PhD, Jonathan Ringer | ||
| 11:10 AM | | Empowering community-based organizations to replicate beauty salon – based health initiatives Ruth C. Browne, ScD, Necole Brown, BA, Ernestine Delmoor, MPH, Nicole A. Vaughn, PhD, Laura Gonzalez, MS, Paul Randleman, Shirley Randleman, BS, Jack Lewis, MSW, LCSW, Rita Lourie, MSN, MPH, RN, Humberto Brown, MA, Marilyn A. Fraser-White, MD, Tonya Samuel, MSPH, Gwen Foster, MPH | ||
| 11:30 AM | A New Approach for Working with Faith-Based Organizations: The ISIS Project Anafidelia Tavares, MD, MPH, Joyce Moon-Howard, MPH, Dr PH, Camille Parara, MPH, Pernessa Seele, MS | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Black Caucus of Health Workers | |||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Community Health Workers SPIG; Community-Based Public Health Caucus; HIV/AIDS; Health Administration; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA