FIRST ANNUAL DASH-NY COALITION CONFERENCE

Community Partnerships to
End Obesity Disparities

Friday March 22, 2013, 9:30am-4:30pm
Hilton Garden Inn
235 Hoosick Street, Troy, NY 12180

Need a hotel room? Call 877-STAY- HGI or go on-line at troy.HGI.com and reference group code NAMA to receive the discounted rate of $119.00 per night until March 7th!

The Designing a Strong and Healthy New York (DASH-NY) Coalition’s first annual conference will provide the opportunity for you to learn from your peers and other experts about how to best develop partnerships that can address barriers to healthy eating and physical activity for communities of color, the disabled, low income, and rural communities. Registration is encouraged for people working with local coalitions, nonprofits, health care systems, state and local government, and academia. We look forward to a lively and interactive event with many opportunities for networking.

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FEATURING:

Dr Diasto Janice Johnson Dias, PhD
President of GrassROOTS Community Foundation
Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College

Michelle Davis, PhD
Regional Health Administrator for Region II
Department of Health and Human Services

Agenda

8:30	Registration
9:30	Welcome and Opening Remarks Jo Ivey Boufford, MD President, The New York Academy of Medicine Ellie Wilson, MS, RD Co-Chair DASH-NY Coalition NYS Food Policy Council
9:45	Keynote: Janice Johnson-Dias, PhD President of GrassROOTS Community Foundation Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College
10:15	Obesity Disparities in NYS: Michelle Davis, PhD Regional Health Administrator, Region II, Department of Health and Human Services
10:30	Discussion with speakers: Stephen Cook, MD, MPH, FAAP, FTOS Associate Professor, University of Rochester Department of Pediatrics Healthi Kids Coalition
10:50	Break
11:00	Panel: Effective Partnerships to End Obesity Disparities Moderator: Rachel Pickering, Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency • Shavon Arline-Bradley, NAACP • Barbara Devore, Independent Living Center of Hudson Valley • Assunta Ventresca, Buffalo Public School District
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Panel: Big Ideas in Creating Strong and Healthy Communities • Jason Harper & Laura Heery, Congress for the New Urbanism: Healthy Hospital Districts • Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero, City Harvest: Healthy Neighborhoods • Aurash Khawarzad, Change Administration: Open Transportation Planning • Emily Light, PriceChopper Wellness Program: Worksite Wellness
1:45	Break
2:00	Panel: Attracting Investment in Your Efforts • Jacqueline Martinez-Garcel, NYS Health Foundation • Bonnie DeVinney, Greater Rochester Health Foundation
3:00	Break
3:15	Roundtable Discussions: Peer-led Problem Solving to Address: (we will take suggestions for additional topics during registration) • Multisector Partnership Recruitment • Attracting Investment • Developing Advocacy Strategies
4:15	Highlights/Summary
4:30	Adjourn

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Co-Sponsors:
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* Partial scholarships to help with travel expenses will be available on a limited basis. For more information, please contact Martine Edmund at [log in to unmask].