The Family Health Coalition sponsors monthly
training institutes and co-sponsors regional and statewide training events.
Here are some recent highlights.
Click on a topic link to hear an interview with the speaker.
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Caring for the Caregiver
January 2010
Whether defined by their job type or family
obligations … caregivers can spread themselves thin
Speaker:
Diane Hughes
Family & Children’s Services, Quality and Process Improvement Director of the
Mental Health Division
“Last to Know” ... If
caregivers don’t learn to take care of themselves, there are negative
consequences.
“Say No” ... Hughes says caregivers
need to learn how to dial it back.
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Failure to Thrive
December 2009
Failure to thrive ... a delay in physical growth
and weight gain that can lead to developmental and maturational delays or
permanent damage
Speaker: Lesley
Gudgel, MA
Child Development Specialist, LINK Project Coordinator, Child Care Resource
Center, Community Service Council
"Nutrition" ...
Proper nutrition is a must for proper development, but sometimes, the lack
of nutrition can be hard to detect.
Speaker:
Rachel Kasika
Tulsa City-County Health Department
"Incidence
and assessment" ... Failure to thrive affects roughly 25 percent of the
children in the Tulsa County area. Case management and health care workers
have to be very careful when assessing a child’s development.
"Factors"
... Several factors can lead to a baby’s failure to thrive
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Giving Voice to Our Region: Leaders
Crossing Borders to Build the Economy and Our Communities
November 3-4, 2009
Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Keynote
Speaker:
Bill
Millett
Founder and President of Scope View Strategic Advantage
Millet
emphasized the need for counties and factions within those counties to work
together, to act collectively, to develop a regional identity, and to create
an entrepreneurial atmosphere in order to create a healthy future...and that
means all entities, including those in early childhood and education:
Listen
He went
on to say it's essential to our future that we all work together.
Listen
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Improving Birth Outcomes
for Our Communities
Southwest Region Healthy Start Conference
September 15-16, 2009
Oklahoma City, OK
Speaker: Susanna
Ginsberg, MSW
President, SG Associates Consulting
"Improving outcomes for our region’s women
and their families" ... the direction that Healthy Start is going to
improve birth outcomes by focusing on the interconceptional period is the
right way to go.
Speaker: Kimberly Leslie-Patton,
PhD
Leslie Patton and Associate Management Consulting Firm
"Client
engagement in career opportunities in allied health" ... ensuring a
healthy start for children may start by making sure the family is
financially stable, and there is an opportunity to get Healthy Start clients
into Allied Health professions—good jobs in patient care.
Speaker: Janis Williams
Client Advocate
"A
client advocate's perspective" ... Healthy Start really works at the
consumer level.
Speaker:
Lynn Goldberg, BS
CHES, SODH/MCH
"Reproductive knowledge, attitudes and
behavior among men" ... men’s attitudes towards reproductive health
change over their lifespan.
Speaker:
Gerard Clancy, MD
President, University of Oklahoma-Tulsa and Dean,
College of Medicine
"The Science of Early Childhood Brain
Development" ... significant information is coming out of the A.C.E.
study, suggesting where healthcare needs to go to diagnose the effects of
Adverse Childhood Experiences.
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