Call for Workshops and Session Leaders
Melissa Ponder (mponder@edcc.ctc.edu)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:55:34 -0700
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>Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) Presents:
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>Voices from the Community: A Call to Action for Asian and Pacific Islander
>Health in the New Millennium
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>September 12-14, 1997
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>Hyatt Regency Hotel at the San Francisco International Airport
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>CALL FOR WORKSHOPS & SESSION LEADERS
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>The Asian & Pacific islander American health Forum invites you to respond to
>a Call for Workshops and Session Leaders for "Voices from the Community: A
>Call to Action for Asian and Pacific Islander Health in the New Millennium",
>a national conference on September 12-14, 1997 in San Francisco, California.
>We welcome applications from community leaders, activists, health workers
>and others involved with Asian and Pacific Islander health issues.
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>Conference mission: to broaden and strengthen the voices of Asian and
>Pacific Islander communities in impacting local and national health policy.
>Focusing on critical health issues the objectives of the conference include
>strategic development of knowledge and advocacy skills through interactive
>training and on-site modeling and demonstration.
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>CALL FOR SKILLSBUILDING WORKSHOPS
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>Workshops are to be interactive and participatory, with specific learning
>objectives. You are encouraged to use community-based experiences as case
>studies and examples. There will be two skillsbuilding sessions that will
>last two hours each. You can design a workshop for one two-hour session or
>a two-part workshop that lasts four hours over both sessions. Selected
>workshop presenters will be given priority consideration for full or partial
>conference scholarships (limited to travel and accommodations).
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>CALL FOR SESSION LEADERS
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>Each plenary session will be followed by strategy breakout sessions. We are
>seeking to identify session leaders to facilitate the discussions in these
>strategy breakout sessions. Please complete a separate application for each
>session you would like to lead (no more than two sessions). Selected
>session leaders will be given priority consideration for full or partial
>conference scholarships (limited to travel and accommodations).
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>If you have questions, please call APIAHF Conference Program Committee
>Coordinators Ignatius Bau at 415/512-3408 or Rene Astudillo at 415/512-4368.
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>Deadlines:
>Submission of Workshop Abstracts: June 16, 1997
>Submission of Session Leader Applications: June 16, 1997
>Scholarship Applications: July 7, 1997
>Early Registration: August 1, 1997
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>Registration and Scholarship Information Forthcoming
>Call the Hyatt by June 11 or as soon as possible to reserve your hotel room
>at a reduced conference rate at 1-800-233-1234. Your reservation can be
>canceled up until 48 hours prior to your arrival without charge.
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