Community Events

Plain Talk Training Institute
Provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation
2005 Georgia Public Health Association Pre-Conference Event
Savannah, Ga.
Sept. 13

The Georgia Plain Talk Institute is a four hour pre-conference session in which you will discover how the Annie E. Casey Foundation helps parents and other adults learn to "Plain Talk" with adolescents.

The initiative's core strategies are:

• To provide parents and other community adults with accurate information and communication skills they need to communicate more effectively with teens.
• To change the message parents and other supportive adults provide sexually active adolescents by creating consensus about responsible sexual behaviors.
• To improve adolescents' access to quality and age-appropriate reproductive health care.

The Institute discusses the evaluation outcome highlights, examines the core elements of the Plain Talk model, and identifies conditions for successfully replicating the program.

For more information please visit the GPHA website at http://www.gapha.org/

For other questions, contact Carolyn Aidman at (404) 463-2190 or via e-mail at cbaidman@dhr.state.ga.us

Georgia Public Health Association
76th Annual Meeting and Conference
Savannah, Ga.
Sept. 13 - 15

Participate in workshops promoting the public and personal health of Georgia citizens. Opportunity to network with members of GPHA who represent many different public health disciplines, including public health administration, behavioral health, emergency medicine, environmental health, epidemiology, health education, information systems, laboratory, and many more. For detailed workshop and other information please visit http://www.gapha.org/pages/conference.htm

Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
10th Annual Conference
Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga.
Sept. 28 - 30

Participate in thought-provoking topics, stimulating dialogue, and an exchange of ideas and information around the conference theme, "Healthy Relationships: The Ultimate Contraceptive."

Workshop areas include:

• adolescent reproductive and mental health
• juvenile justice
• education
• male involvement and fatherhood
• parent involvement
• media and pop culture influence
• evaluation and measuring results
• early intervention and teen pregnancy prevention
• youth-focused community and economic development issues

For more details call (404) 524-2277.

Child Policy Symposium
Connecting Research, Policy and Practice to Improve Child Well-Being
Clayton State College and University
Morrow, Ga.
Sept. 30

This Symposium will address the needs of the whole child, from birth to adolescence, and focus on the broad-range of issues that affect the healthy development and well-being of children. Conference and registration forms are available at www.gsu.edu/ghpc or
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/

Please call the conference office at (404) 651-1294 for more information or email ghpc@gsu.edu

Family Connection Conference
The Classic Center, Athens, Ga.
Oct. 16 - 18

Join the statewide network of 159 Family Connection county collaboratives in its biennial celebration. Learn from experts in the field of child and family well-being. Network with local, state, and national partners who are passionate about their work. Share community successes and best practices. The conference theme is "Framing the Future" for Georgia's children and families.

Conference speakers will include:

• Michael Johnson, a Texas cowboy, author and motivational speaker.
• Naomi Griffith, a storyteller and executive director of Parents and Children Together.
• Crystal Kuykendall, an educator, human relations expert, author, public servant and business consultant.

Conference registration closes September 30 and is available only online at www.regonline.com/22665. For more details and to sponsor or exhibit at the conference, visit http://gafcp.org/news/conference/index.html

American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, La.
Nov. 5 - 9

The American Public Health Association Annual Meeting is the platform to share successes and failures, discover exceptional best practices, and learn from expert colleagues and the latest research in the field. Learn how to stay on top of the trends in public health. Explore ideas and innovation with more than 13,000 peers and leaders in public health. For more details, visit http://www.apha.org/meetings/.