2001 21st Annual Conference on Families and Health

	Preconference Workshops and Optional Sessions Back to Conference on Families and Health Schedule Wednesday, February 28 9 am - 5 pm Preconference Workshop: Joining Together to Experience the Challenge: A Ropes Course Primer Cecilia Robertson, PhD, John Peter Smith Hospital, Fort Worth,Tex; Jeri Hepworth, PhD, University of Connecticut; John Girault, Kiawah Island Resort "Ropes" or challenge courses offer a variety of educational and therapeutic experiences. In recent years, these courses have been incorporated into residency programs to achieve both group and individual goals. As participants encounter the challenges of a ropes course, fun, fantasy, and occasionally fear are woven together to foster group communication, effectiveness, trust, and camaraderie as well as individual awareness and self-esteem. This in-the-field workshop invites you to sample a challenge course experience. Explore creative ways to adapt these processes into residency teaching. No special physical abilities are needed to participate. Though some might choose not to do each activity, all will be given a role by the group that they can perform for the activity. Please wear comfortable outdoor cloth-ing and athletic shoes. We will continue rain or shine! STFM reserves the right to cancel this event if less than 15 participants have registered by February 9. In the event it is cancelled, STFM will be responsible for refunding ropes course registration only. Additional fee: $149 includes box lunch/refreshments (Enrollment limited to 20. Minimum enrollment is 15. Preregistration is required. See page 23 to preregister.) 1 - 5 pm Preconference Workshop: Community Building Through Drumming Mark Seaman, Earth Rhythms, Reading, Pa Mark Seaman of Earth Rhythms will bring a beautiful array of drums and percussion instruments to cocreate a circle of sound and rhythm. Through the joy of drumming and music making, participants will experience community and team building, transcending the sense of separateness and isolation that often pervades our lives, and mirroring the ideal we strive for in our collaborative re-lationships. Seaman founded Earth Rhythms in1993 to provide user-friendly environments to experience the ecstasy of drumming and percussion. He has brought Earth Rhythms to communities everywhere. Bring a group of colleagues or come solobut be prepared to celebrate! Additional fee: $15. (Enrollment is limited to 30. See page 23 to preregister.) 6 - 7:30 pm Special Orientation Session Basic Family Systems Tools for Biopsycho-social Collaboration in Health Care: Creating a Map for Those New to the Territory Susan Thrower, MSW, Mountain Area Health Education Center, Asheville, NC; Michael Crouch, MD, MSPH, Baylor College of Medicine; Janet Christie-Seely, MD, MSPH, University of Ottawa This workshop focuses on the use of family systems clinical tools that assist collaborative biospychosocial health care in today's health care environment. Participants will work with the family genogram and family circle and learn how to use them in teaching and clinical care in their health care setting. (No additional fees. See page 23 to preregister.) Thursday, March 1 5:30 - 7:30 pm Optional Session: Decreasing Environ-mental MorbiditiesBuilding Partnerships in Support of Eliminating Environmental Toxins in Underserved Communities Denise Rodgers, MD, president-elect, STFM; Regina Benjamin, MD, MPH, director, American Medical Association; Charles Mouton, MD, cochair, STFM Group on Minority Health; Plus a panel of Charleston, SC, community leaders and experts: Dr Maxine Martin, president & CEO, Trident Urban League; Patricia LaCue, president, Trident NAACP; Steven McLeod-Bryant, MD, Med-ical University of South Carolina; Dr Charles Young, Ebenezer AME. Moderator: Yvonne Hipps, PhD, Morehouse School of Medicine This session will focus on increasing awareness and advocacy among family physicians and community groups for reducing the environmental health risks faced by mi-nority communities. The panel will develop best practices in the treatment of environmental toxins and will suggest curricula for health care providers working with at-risk, underserved communities. Local physicians, health care practitioners, and community members are encouraged to attend and will receive a special 1-day rate for attending the conference on Thursday. Light refreshments will be served. 8:30 - 10:30 pm Optional Session: Earth Rhythms CelebrationA Community Drumming Jam Mark Seaman, Earth Rhythms, Reading, Pa Join Mark Seaman, Earth Rhythms, for an evening of community building and fun. Through drums, percussion, voice, and movement, we will experiment, cocreate, and celebrate the spirit of earth jazz! Bring your own instruments or use those supplied by Earth Rhythms.