A Workshop for Healthier Communities

September 29, 2006

Crowder College,
Neosho, Missouri

Program below updated on: December 29, 2006

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Workshop Program

8:00-8:30 AM - Registration

Session One

8:30-9:15 AM - Missouri's Changing Demographics & Building Inclusive Communities   

An overview of demographics, community inclusive principles, principles for working in diversity, and cultural awareness issues with application for SW Missouri, with emphasis on Latinos.

Dr. Jim Wirth, University of Missouri  Extension Service, Springfield, Missouri

Session Two

9:15-10:30 AM - Creating Positive Futures for our Youth   

Interactive workshop about historical trends comparing the status of the first and third generation of immigrants.  The participants will examine some of the underlying reasons for these trends and relate them to the local context.  Information from the presenter's current research projects will be incorporated into the discussion. Finally, participants will create strategies to facilitate the integration of all youth into the fabric of the community.

Dr. Anne Dannerbeck, School of Social Work; Cambio fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia

9:15-10:30 AM - Best Communication Practices   

This session will include content on medical interpretation, medical language phone lines, hiring interpreters, and best practice standards in medical interpreting.

Hilda Ochoa-Bogue, National Center for Farmworker Health, Buda, Texas

Break: 10:30-10:45 AM

Session Three

10:45 AM-12:15 PM - Diabetes and Heart Disease Prevention   

A session that will emphasize healthy lifestyle alternatives which serve to reduce the risks for obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Best practice models will be presented by the National Center for Farmworker Health.

Hilda Ochoa-Bogue, National Center for Farmworker Health, Buda, Texas

Lunch Session

12:15-1:15 PM - Employment Verification Process

Jim Austin, Adjunct Professor, University of Missouri- Kansas City, School of Law, Kansas City, Missouri

This lunch presentation will describe the legal requirements of hiring practices, how to verify a person's employability, and will include a question and answer period.

Session Four

1:15-2:45 PM - Diabetes and Heart Disease Prevention   

Hilda Ochoa-Bogue, National Center for Farmworker Health, Buda, Texas

A session that will emphasize healthy lifestyle alternatives which serve to reduce the risks for obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Best practice models will be presented by the National Center for Farmworker Health.

1:15-2:45 PM - Integrating Immigrants - The Pittsburg, Kansas Experience

Web site: Pittsburg Area Community Outreach (PACO)

Pittsburg, Kansas, through the Pittsburg Area Community Outreach (PACO), has been working for eight years to positively and proactively integrate new immigrants into the community. A panel of PACO members representing law enforcement, education, health care, community services and other resources, will share Pittsburg's history and experience as well as offer information and help to those who might be facing similar demographic and social issues in their communities.

Penny Armstrong, Family Resource Center
Mindy Hulvy- Chief of Police
Karen Sooter, Director of Adult Education for USD – 250 school district

Session Five

3:00-4:30 PM -   Best Communication Practices   

Hilda Ochoa-Bogue, National Center for Farmworker Health, Buda, Texas

3:00-4:30   AM -  Conversation Café

Roundtable discussion of topics covered during the day as well as some new ones. Participants include Jim Austin, Anne Dannerbeck, Jackie Schnedler (Department of Social Services),  Dee Finley (Jasper County Health Department Interpreter),  Corinne Waggoner (Carthage Multicultural Committee), Sandy Swingle (Carthage Literacy Center), Gretchen Gambon (First Steps Program, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services).

4:30-5:00 PM - Closing remarks

* Funding for Ms. Hilda Ochoa-Bogue participation was provided in part by the Missouri Foundation for Health.  The Missouri Foundation for Health is a philanthropic organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves