Bridging the Gaps: Community Health Internship Program Symposium

Posted by on September 10, 2004

You are cordially invited
to attend the 14th
annual

Bridging the Gaps: Community Health Internship Program Symposium

October 1st? 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Rodeph Shalom
615 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia
Please Share With Others Who May Be Interested In Attending

Agenda
8:30 ? 10:00 Community Health Project Posters
10:15 ? 11:15 Awards Ceremony / Plenary Session
Salome Thomas-EL
11:30 ? 11:45 Lunches Served
11:45 ? 1:30 Workshop Sessions
– Workshop 1 Playing with Your Health: It?s More Than Just a Game! Interactive Youth Health Education
– Workshop 2 2004 Presidential Campaign Health Care Issues & Activism
– Workshop 3 Programming on the Edge: Getting the Maximum Out of Minimum Resources
– Workshop 4 Actions Speak Louder than Words: Partnerships in Community Health
– Workshop 5 Managing the Unmanageable: A Discussion of Strategies for Engaging and Disciplining Youth
– Workshop 6 The Value of a Patient?s Health Insurance Crisis: Nearly 44 Million Uninsured
– Workshop 7 Culture Clash: Exploring Perceptions and Attitudes in Health Care
– Workshop 8 I Don?t Understand You. Do You Understand Me? The Communication Divide in Health Care
– Workshop 9 Connect Four: Child, Family, Community, and Health
– Workshop 10 A Continuum of Elderly Life Management

Limited parking available at Rodeph Shalom for elderly and handicapped.
Public parking lots are available within walking distance.

For more information please contact Mary Ellen Bradley in the Bridging the Gaps Program Office by phone at (215) 898-4141, by fax at (215) 573-2265, or by email at mbradley@cceb.med.upenn.edu visit our website: http://www.bridgingthegaps.info

This symposium is based on the work of student interns from multiple health profession institutions in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Erie and is offered to the public free of charge. A newly developed Delaware program will also be represented. The Bridging the Gaps Program is committed to forging partnerships among those who are dedicated to the promotion of health in our underserved communities.