Title: Upcoming Events

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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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Oct. 15, 1st Greenwich Multicultural Health & Heritage Fair in Greenwich, Conn.:
The Community Health Planning Office of the Greenwich Department of Health in Greenwich, Conn., is chairing a town-wide collaborative venture to bring a variety of health, health screening opportunities and multilingual health information to the community. For more information, contact Stephanie R. Paulmeno, MS RN,C. NHA at <spaulmeno@greenwichct.org>.

Dec. 1-3, 4th International Community Indicators Conference in Burlington, Vt.: This conference will help channel energy toward these initiatives and the 4th International Conference will focus on:

  1. New information and technology tools.

  2. The current effort to produce a set of Key National Indicators.

  3. Integration of community indicators work with local government performance measurement.

  4. The successes and future opportunities in using indicators of children’s well being and family health.

  5. Refined indicators that help measure and promote decisions on public health, sustainability and community improvement.

  6. The need to understand, highlight models, and provide training on productive USE of community indicators.



For more information, contact Ken Jones, coordinator for the Community Indicators Consortium at (802) 229-607, or <kjones@gmied.org>.


Dec. 8-9, First Annual Nemours Conference on Child Health Promotion in Wilmington, Del.: Additional information on some of our speakers is available at http://www.nemours.org/internet?url=no/nhpec/conference.html. For more information contact Tavanya Giles, MPH, CHES, at <tgiles@nemours.org>.