See you in CA

I want to let you know that my poster abstract has been selected for presentation at the 13^th Annual IHA Health Literacy Conference, “Operational Solutions to Low Health Literacy: At the Intersection of the Affordable Care Act and Health Literacy.”

I’m presenting on Thursday evening, May 8, at the Hotel Irvine-Jamboree Center in Irvine, California. If you’re interested in attending the conference and seeing my poster, follow this link to register now. Thanks for your support!

Provider Workshop on Peer Support Techniques and Tobacco Cessation May 29, 2013

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 29, 2013

This is a day for peers to learn from each other about empowerment and wellness strategies. A second workshiop day for non-peer staff is available on Thurs. May 29, 2013.

Topics include:

Peer Support Facilitated by Glenn Hopkins, PS.  What is peer support? How can we use it to enhance recovery?

Tobacco Myths Facilitated by Kristen Frame, TTS, PS. Learn about the unique needs of individuals who experience mental illness and tobacco cessation.

MOST Program Facilitated by Asa GreenRiver. Learn how young men build individualized definitions of masculinity that promote healthy relationships.

“Getting Ahead” Peer PanelFacilitated by Donna Gibson, Program coordinator. Learn how peers in this program build resources and choices to move forward.

A delicious lunch is included in registration fee.Options for the day include: a chance to tour the Arboretum, and a post-conference walk around the park trails.

Location: Dawes Arboretum , 7700 Jacksontown Road, Newark, OH 43056www.Dawesarb.org Dawes Arboretum offers a beautiful Japanese garden, a cypress swamp, woodlands and a discovery center.

This training was made possible by a grant from a collaboration between Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) (formerly Medical Education Group/ MEG) to MHALC’s Compeer Program.

Deadline for registration: May 22, 2013. Registration cost is $25, and includes lunch and materials. Ask about the limited number of scholarships available to consumers. Call 740-52-1341 for more information.

To register online: go to www.mhalc.org, to complete registration and pay with PayPal.

By Fax: the attached registration to 740-522-4664 and pay with credit card.

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 30, 2013

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 30, 2013

This is a day for peers to learn from each other about empowerment and wellness strategies. A second workshiop day for non-peer staff is available on Thurs. May 29, 2013.

Topics include:

PTSD Facilitated by Rhonda Hunt, PS.  Recognition, symptoms and ways to make lives easier living with PTSD.

Tobacco Myths  Facilitated by Kristen Frame, TTS, PS. Learn about the unique needs of individuals who experience mental illness and tobacco cessation.

 

 “Getting Ahead” Peer Panel Facilitated by Donna Gibson, Program coordinator. Learn how peers in this program build resources and choices to move forward.
 

Inuksuk: Building a Path to Peer Wellness and Recovery

Participants will have the opportunity to create their own Inuksuk, in an interactive discussion and art project.

 

A delicious lunch is included in registration fee.Options for the day include: a chance to tour the Arboretum, and a post-conference walk around the park trails.

 Location: Dawes Arboretum , 7700 Jacksontown Road, Newark, OH 43056www.Dawesarb.org  Dawes Arboretum offers a beautiful Japanese garden, a cypress  swamp, woodlands and a discovery center.

This training was made possible by a grant from a collaboration between Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and  Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) (formerly Medical Education Group/ MEG) to MHALC’s Compeer Program.

Deadline for registration: May 22, 2013. Registration cost is $25, and includes lunch and materials. Ask about the limited number of scholarships available to consumers. Call  740-52-1341 for more information.

To register online: go to www.mhalc.org, to complete registration and pay with PayPal. 

By Fax: the attached registration to 740-522-4664 and pay with credit card.

 

 

 

 

Kick Butts Advocacy Day 2013

Kick Butts Advocacy Day 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Mar. 20, 2013
at Vern Riffe Center, 19th Floor, Columbus, Ohio

 

Young people and their mentors are invited to join the American Lung Association to stand up and speak out against tobacco. Join us at the Statehouse to have fun and talk with legislators about the importance of funding tobacco prevention programs so that our state no longer ranks the worst in the country when it comes to helping kids avoid tobacco!

Our theme is "Don’t be a tobacco zombie," because when you’re addicted to tobacco you become a mindless slave to tobacco and the tobacco industry. Smokers are the real walking dead, and this day will be an opportunity for you to say you don’t want Ohio’s youth becoming mindless zombies to the tobacco industry.

 

Dress like a zombie … Or, if you’re not that great at makeup, we’ll have people available to do your makeup at the event. And that’s not all the fun, check out these other activities:  Free pizza party and snacks Prizes; Sign decorating Zombie costume contest; Press conference (you can be on TV!) Statehouse tour; Meetings with legislators Zombie march.

 

This event is made possible by a Kick Butts Day grant from the Campaign for Tobacco‐Free Kids.

To register, visit: www.ohiolung.org. Please sign up everyone in your group individually since we will need each individual’s home address to schedule legislative meetings.

For more information, contact Shelly Kiser, American Lung Association in Ohio, skiser@midlandlung.org, 614
‐279‐1700