Learning, Caring, Advocating: Fresh Approaches to Engagement and Empowerment
April 22, 2008
The William and Ida Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC
Plan to join us at the 2008 Public Health Social Work Conference! The conference theme this year is: Learning, Caring, Advocating: Fresh Approaches to Engagement and Empowerment. We are offering a wide range of topics for professional development, so there is something for everyone.
Here is your chance to update your practice skills, learn new techniques, hear about and discuss the current issues facing public health social workers and the populations we serve. For example, you won’t want to miss the opportunity to learn about what is being done at the local level to dismantle racism. Do you need your two hours of ethics training this year? Then, be sure to attend the session on ‘Ethics of Attraction’.
This annual education conference is designed by public health social workers, for public health social workers and it has a great track record of delivering quality sessions that meet the needs of all who attend. So come and use this conference to learn, meet your colleagues from around the state, renew and refresh yourself.
Agenda
8:00-8:45
Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00
Welcome/Overview
9:00-10:15
General Session: Public Health Practice and Institutional Racial Injustice: Our Internal and External Challenges
C. Timothy Monroe, MD, MPH, Health Director, Forsyth County Department of Health, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
10:15-10-30
Break/Snacks/Exhibits
10:30-12:30
Breakout Sessions
Session 1: Ethics of Attraction
Kim Strom-Gottfried, PhD, MSW, UNC School of Social Work, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Session 2: Baby’s Easy Safe Sleep Training (BESST)
Marta Pirzadeh, MPH, NC Infant Safe Sleep and Back to Sleep Campaign Coordinator, North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation, Raleigh, North Carolina
Session 3: Addressing Institutional Racism Internally – Developing an Anti-Racism Team (ART) in a Local Health Department
Robin Macklin, BA, LCCE and Jill Hinckley-Noble, RN, Forsyth County Department of Health, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
12:30-1: 15
Lunch
1:15-2:30
Breakout sessions
Session 1: The Art of Eating
Claudia Fernandez, MS, RD, LDN, UNC School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Session 2: Advocacy and Empowerment for Ourselves and Our Clients
Jack Register, MSW, LCSW, Director of Advocacy & Legislation, Registered Lobbyist, National Association of Social Workers – NC Chapter
Session 3: The Impact of Gender-Specific Services on Pregnant and Parenting Women in Recovery
Valerie Thomas-Davis, MRC and La-Ferne Harris, MA, LCAS, Wake County Human Services – Step by Step, Perinatal Substance Abuse Program, Raleigh, North Carolina
2:30-2:45
Break/Snacks/Exhibits
2:45-3:45
General Session: What Lies Ahead in Public Health on the Local and National Level: The Challenge for North Carolina
Joseph Telfair, DrPH, MSW-MPH, Department of Public Health Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
4:00-4:30
Evaluations/Door Prizes/Adjourn
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About Joseph Telfair, DrPH, MSW, MPH
Joseph Telfair has worked on practice, cultural, ethical, and social issues specific to genetics for more than 30 years. He also focuses on health care issues for poor, rural, and multi-cultural/multi-ethnic populations and advocacy for patients with chronic diseases. Dr. Telfair is a tenured full professor of Public Health Research and Practice at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with adjunct appointments at UNC Chapel Hill and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (pending), both as full professor of maternal and child health. Dr. Telfair received his dual degree of MSW/MPH from the University of California at Berkeley. He later graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health as a Doctor of Public Health, followed by a post-doctorate in psychosocial research at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Social Work in Chapel Hill. Dr. Telfair had extensive experience as a social worker, social work consultant, program evaluator, and planning consultant before working as an assistant professor of Maternal and Child Health, co-director of the Public Health Social Work Program, and faculty associate of the Center for Public Health Practice at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Conference Planning Committee
Co-Chairs:
Delphine Wiggins
Wrenia Bratts-Brown
Committee members:
Vienna Barger
Sonja Boyd
Karen Carraway
Carol Erwin
Tracy Hamilton
Lois Hinton
Carol Kyles
Teme Levbarg
Deborah Maxwell
Kathleen Rounds
Romelia Serrano de Keith
Mary Jane Sauls
Kelly Spangler
Barbara Stelly
Sylvia Wagoner
Carla Weinfeld
Tina Williams
Registration
Fees: $70, $30 for students
Register on-line or call 919-966-4032.
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