Events and Training
FREE Resource for Nonprofits! Program Evaluation Handbook
Interested in learning about program evaluation? Download the second edition of Program Evaluation: Principles and Practices (pdf). The handbook was developed for participants in a training workshop sponsored by NWHF, and is intended for use by a wide audience of nonprofit health services providers. Authors: Sherril B. Gelmon, Anna Foucek, and Amy Waterbury.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Policy Analysis and Advocacy Training for Community-based Participatory Research Practitioners
July 10, 2008 (Portland): Kaiser Permanente's Town Hall at 3704 N. Interstate Ave., Ballroom 11 am - 4:30pm
July 11, 2008 (Eugene): Serbu Youth Campus, Carmichael Training Room, 2727 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 9 am- 1:30pm
Public policies have an enormous impact on our personal health and well-being, and that of our communities.Community-based research partnerships are uniquely qualified to devise and propose healthy public policies. In this half-day training CBPR practitioners will learn how to design a policy change project from the ground up, as well as, how to use completed research to impact policy. Cassandra Ritas, MPP will present an overview of policy analysis and advocacy techniques, and discuss their application in the partnership context. Ms. Ritas is a Kennedy School graduate, who has worked extensively in partnership and in government, as an advocate and policymaker.
There is no cost to attend but registration is required and space is limited. Click here to register .
Social Forces and System Dynamics that Influence Health:
An Experiential Conference
July 17 - 19, 2008 at McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, Oregon (15 minutes from Portland)
This three-day conference will engage participants in examining social systems and collective behaviors that demonstrate how system dynamics in communities and social institutions influence health. Those who work in public health and health care or who lead nonprofit organizations that provide services to disenfranchised members of our communities are encouraged to attend. Partial scholarships are available.
Sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, Northwest Health Foundation, United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, and GREX, an affiliate of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems.
2008 Healthy Environment Forum
A program of the Oregon Environmental Council, the Healthy Environment Forum series brings health professionals and environmentalists together to learn about emerging issues, to exchange views openly and honestly, to build understanding and cooperation, and to forge consensus about the linkages between some of Oregon’s most difficult environmental and health challenges. The series is designed for physicians and other health care providers, especially those in Family Medicine and Pediatrics, and for environmental professionals and interested citizens.
All events are from 6-8 pm at the Doubletree Hotel-Lloyd Center in Portland.
Northwest Health Foundation is the presenting sponsor.
10th Annual Northwest Nursing Education Institute
Transforming Nursing Education: Leading Edge Models
June 16 - 19, 2008
Exciting innovations are transforming nursing education in Oregon and beyond. Designed for educators, this hands-on institute addresses revolutionary curriculum models, new approaches in clinical education, the applicability of arts and sciences in nursing education and more.
Sponsored by Oregon Health & Science University, School of Nursing with co-sponsorship by the Northwest Health Foundation and the Oregon Center for Nursing.