By Hanna Singh
The 2024 Promising Practices Conference on Community Health is coming to Grambling on Friday, June 7.
A hybrid (both on-site and online) event, the conference will be held at Grambling State University (on site) and by Zoom webinar (online). The Conferences is a part of a greater community outreach and engagement program coordinated by the Louisiana Cancer Research Center (LCRC)’s Office of Community Outreach and Engagement (OCOE).
The objectives of the conference are to increase awareness of factors related to public health issues affecting Louisiana communities with a particular emphasis placed on how cancer is affecting Louisiana communities. In addition to this focus on cancer, the conference presenters will also examine a wider range of public health and wellness services and programs available to Louisiana communities.
They will also examine health-related related research being done in Louisiana and approaches that can help address overall public health and wellness within Louisiana Communities. This focus supports the LCRC OCE goal of reducing the impact of cancer across Louisiana and in the Gulf region. It also helps residents of Louisiana address health and wellness needs within their communities.
The event focuses on bringing together community members, researchers, healthcare professionals and stakeholders of public health to listen and learn from each other about issues relating to community health. The objective of the Conference is to help both presenters and attendees better understand and identify community health and wellness issues around both the topic of cancer as well as a broader range of public health issues. The Conference will also provide information about both cancer-related and more general health and wellness resources available to Louisiana communities.
Conference discussion panels will examine topics like identifying a community’s health and wellness needs. They will also review approaches for collaborating to address community healthcare issues, and strategies for applying research results to meet community health and wellness needs.
Additionally, the conference’s keynote speaker, Faith Hunter, MBA, ERYT, will deliver a talk entitled, “Uniting for Health: Innovative Solutions for Community Wellness.” Hunter’s talk will focus on community wellness as established by her journey as a wellness expert, author and pioneering force in the realms of meditation, yoga and mindfulness.
Registration for both the on-site and online versions of the conference is free, and the event is open to anyone. Individuals, however, must register to attend. Individuals can register now using this link https://www.promisingpractices2024.com/copy-of-registration.
More information on the Conference can be found online at https://www.promisingpractices2024.com/
