3271.0 Systems Development and Capacity Building

Monday, October 31, 2011: 12:30 PM
Oral
This session will explore the need to expand capacity of service agencies and define methods of community building around social justice and health equity to better meet the needs of a spectrum of clients.
Session Objectives: 1. Demonstrate methods of strengthening communities through systems development 2. Discuss measures of working towards health equity from a social work perspective 3. Describe efforts toward social justice through building community capacity
Moderator:
Theora Evans, PhD,, MPH, MSW

12:30 PM
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: What Social Work Practitioners Need to Know about this Silent Epidemic
Page Buck, MSS, LSW, PhD and Samuel Pierce, PT, PhD, NCS
     
12:50 PM
Father's compliance with child welfare case plans: Need for an expanded systemic response
Lianne Fuino Estefan, MPH, Martha L. Coulter, DrPH MSW and Carla L. VandeWeerd, PhD
1:10 PM
Traditional public health delivery programs no more: Building community capacity to achieve social justice
Derek R. Smith, MPH/MSW, Edith Cabuslay, MPH and Scott Morrow, MD, MPH
     
1:30 PM
Empowering health promotion as a vehicle for achieving health equity: The health promotion change management process at the Multnomah County Health Department
Rujuta Gaonkar, MPH, Samantha Kaan, MPH, Noelle Wiggins, MSPH, EdD and Sylvia Ness, MPH
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Social Work
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Family Violence Prevention Forum

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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