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Community Health Solutions

Tampa, Florida
March 3-5, 2005

Co-host:

Association for Community Health Improvement

Community Health Solutions is the second joint conference of the Association for Community Health Improvement and Communities Joined in Action. Planning for the conference began in May, with CJA and ACHI staff and volunteers carefully considering both the evaluations of the October 2003 meeting and the field's needs today.

Our goal is to offer the highest quality educational and participatory networking event for community health and healthy communities professionals - one where you learn as much from fellow attendees as from formal presenters.

Community Health Solutions will offer five topic tracks of critical relevance to your work today. Plenary sessions and concurrent educational sessions will highlight national and local best practices with real results and lessons to share in each area:

• Maximizing Access to Care
• Eliminating Health Disparities
• Building Effective Coalitions
• Promoting Healthy Policy
• Delivering Results and Demonstrating Sustainability

Participate in this conference and you will be in a community of teachers and learners. We believe in the value of interaction among all participants, and are designing an experience that blurs the distinction between presenter and audience.

Participate in this conference and you will:

• bring home practical strategies and tactics you can use
• build bridges with peers in health care, healthy communities, public health and philanthropy
• engage and grow in sessions where everyone can participate
• gain skills and insights with national experts and capable peers
• exchange ideas and experiences to help you develop new perspectives and approaches

Participate in this conference to learn and interact with peers in a variety of settings, including:

• 3 energizing keynote sessions, one for each day of the conference
• 30 concurrent education sessions across five topic tracks
• 4 skill-building intensive workshops
• plenty of structured and open time for peer consultation, networking and creativity

Community Health Solutions is intended for people working in community health, healthy communities and community benefit.

• Community health: Access to care, disparities in health status, prevention of chronic diseases and measurable improvements in population health are some of the themes this conference will address.
   
• Healthy communities: Numerous sessions will step back to look at the social determinants of health and the ways in which we create - through partnerships and policies - the conditions in which people can be healthy.
   
• Community benefit: Health care organizations' community benefit activities relate to accessibility, quality and cost of the community's health system, as well as to community health and well being. Several sessions will cover these subjects, and the conference will feature a Community Benefit Intensive Workshop sponsored by VHA and the Catholic Health Association.

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