Center for Sustainable Health Outreach 10th Annual Unity Conference

Posted by on June 15, 2009

Center for Sustainable Health Outreach 10th Annual Unity Conference

July 27-29, 2009
St. Louis, MI

http://www.usm.edu/csho/unity.html

The Center for Sustainable Health Outreach (CSHO) will hold its 10th annual Unity conference July 27-29, 2009 at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri.  Unity 2009 is a national conference designed for and about community health workers.  The theme for this year’s conference is “Community Health Workers – Celebrating Our Past and Charting the Future.”

Unity 2009 will address the role community health workers play in strengthening and enhancing public health in times of healthcare provider shortages, tight budgets, and impending public health crises.  The conference will stress the importance of community health workers to the health care and human services delivery systems; ways to develop and sustain CHW programs; strength-based responses to community health shortfalls; new and emerging roles for CHWs; and methods of overcoming barriers to CHW program success.

The conference format will include plenary sessions with addresses from keynote speakers and panelists, as well as numerous breakout, poster, skill-building, and roundtable workshop sessions.  Community health workers are strongly encouraged to attend.  Unity 2009 is an opportunity for community health workers to share knowledge, information, and expertise with other community health workers and interested parties.