2011 Training Meeting

FAIRMONT CHICAGO MILLENNIUM PARK | CHICAGO, IL
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011

The training meeting brought together Healthy Tomorrows grantees to increase skills specific to the Healthy Tomorrows program through workshops and networking with fellow grantees. The meeting focused on the following topics: Life Course perspective, sustainability, health literacy, and family engagement.

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• Meeting Agenda

Meeting presentations and handouts are available below. Click on the speaker name or handout to access the materials.

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

• Padmini Parthasarathy: The Life Course Perspective: What is it, why should we care, and how can we use it to improve maternal and child health?
  • Handout 1: Life Course Overview
  • Handout 2: Integrating the Life Course Perspective into a Local Maternal and Child Health Program
  • Handout 3: Concept Paper - Rethinking MCH: The Life Course Model as an Organizing Framework
  • Handout 4: A 12-Point Plan to Close the Black-White Gap in Birth Outcomes: A Life Course Approach
  • Handout 5: Building Economic Security Today (BEST)

WORKSHOP I

• Monte Roulier, Robin Haldiman & Elisa Nicholas: Sustainable Community Partnerships

WORKSHOP II

• Paul Smith: So You Thought You Just Had to Provide Health Care? Health Literacy and What to do About it.
  • Handout 1: Health Literacy Resources
    

WORKSHOP III

• Eileen Forlenza: Family Engagement in Community-based Health Initiatives
  • Handout 1: Self Assessment: Promoting Family/Professional Partnerships
  • Handout 2: Example of Integration: Promoting Family/Professional Partnerships
    

POSTER SESSION

• Click here to view poster list

 

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For more more information on the training meeting, please contact AAP Healthy Tomorrows Staff.