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2004 Summer Institute
Building Blocks for Healthy Families and Communities


June 21-22, 2004, Saint Paul, Minnesota

The goal of the Summer Institutes is to provide educational opportunities that are relevant, informative, and useful to public health practitioners about addressing health and social disparities affecting women, children, families, and communities.



June 21, 2004


Conference introduction: John Finnegan

Keynote address

• Somewhere Between Hope and Absurdity: Congress and the Healthcare Underclass
• House and Senate Announce Principles for Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
• House and Senate Democrats Announce Healthcare Equality and Accountability Act of 2003
• Summary of Healthcare Equality and Accountability Act of 2003
• Organizations Supporting the Healthcare Equality and Accountability Act of 2004
• Congressional Research Service:  Introduction to the Federal Budget Process
• Congressional Research Service:  Maternal and Child Health BlockGrant
• Congressional Research Service:  Congressional Member Office Operations
• Congressional Research Service:  Congress - Finding Directory Information on Members and Committees

Additional Materials:
1-Minute Communications Strategy (pdf)
Email inbox sample (pdf)
Email formatting sample (pdf)
Email formatting worksheet (pdf)
Basic Steps of Advocacy and Persuasion- Original (pdf)
Basic Steps of Advocacy and Persuasion - Revised (pdf)
Presentation sample - Original (pdf)
Presentation sample - Revised (pdf)

"Promoting the Mental Health of Somali Refugee Women and Their Children" Nadifa Osman and Joän Patterson (PowerPoint)

"Using What Works with Latino Youth and Families" Kara Beckman and Lisa Turnham (PowerPoint)

Plenary session

"Sustainable Community:  The Key to Addressing Health Disparities" Sharon Sayles Belton (Listen to presentation; PowerPoint)

Breakout Sessions

"DNA is Here to Stay!  The Emerging Role of Genomics in Public Health" Kris Peterson Oehlke and Sheran McNiff (PowerPoint, Part I; PowerPoint, Part II)

Additional Materials:
The Human Genome Project Partners with Minority Community Leaders for Genomics Education (pdf)

"The Experience of New Mothers in Minnesota:  Purpose, Design, Analysis, and Early Findings from PRAMS" Cynthia Turnure and Wendy Hellerstedt (PowerPoint)

"Building Successful Collaborations in Rural Areas:  From Foundations to Results" Chris Oldakowski Schmid and Jill Bruns (PowerPoint)

Closing session

"Social Justice - The Rights of Women & Children" Charles Oberg (PowerPoint)


Poster Presentations

"Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies: Creating a culturally-sensitive childbirth education video for Somali refugee and immigrant populations" Diana Dubois, MPH, MIA (PowerPoint)

"Eliminating health disparities within Minnesota's Somali refugee population: A community-based approach" Diana Dubois, MPH, MIA (PowerPoint)

"Partnering with Minnesota's Somali refugees to implement a community-based health survey" Diana Dubois, MPH, MIA (PowerPoint)

"Money, Muscles, and Sex" Jill Farris, MCH student (pdf)

"Child and Teen Checkups Multi-Culture Posters and Videos" Ann Hueller, RN, MPH and Michelle Finstad, MPH (PowerPoint)

"Trends in Teen Family Formation and Service Use in Minneapolis and Suburban Hennepin County" David Johnson, MPH (pdf)

Rose Jost
"Pregnancy-Free Club: School-Based Repeat Pregnancy Prevention among Teen Mothers"

To view pdf  files:
Click here for text
Click here for Pregnancy Free Certificates
Click here for monthly check-in forms
Click here for monthly check-in surveys
Click here for charts
Click here for pictures of Pregnancy Free Club Moms
Click here for list of nursing interventions

"Wham E-mail: Getting the Word out on Health Disparities" Luanne Nyberg, MPA (pdf)

"The Clustering of Risk Behaviors among Caribbean Youth" Sally-Ann Ohene, MD (PowerPoint)

"A New Way to Share Translated Health Education Materials" Patricia Ohmans (PowerPoint)

"Associations of Smoking Prevalence with Individual and Area-Level Social Cohesion" Joän Patterson, PhD (PowerPoint)

"Healthy Youth Development" Cheryel Perez (PowerPoint)

"Reasons for never having had sex among Native American teens: Minnesota Student Survey, 1998 and 2001" Kris Rhodes, MPH (PowerPoint)

"Characteristics of sexually experienced Native American teens: the Minnesota Student Survey, 1998 and 2001" Kris Rhodes, MPH (PowerPoint)

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