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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:22:00 -0500
From: Blakely Pomietto <BPomietto@SOPHE.ORG>
Subject: Update: 9th Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit


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Hello, HEDIRland -

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Wanted to let you all know that late Friday afternoon, 2/17, we were able to add more rooms to the room block for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights for the 9th Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit, AND extend the cut off date for reservations in the room block to FEBRUARY 24 at the same room rate of $169. (Be sure to identify as being with the Summit to get the room rate!)

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Details about the Summit are below, and continuously updated at=20 http://www.healtheducationadvocate.org
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Blakely

Blakely R. Pomietto, MPH, CHES

Director, Environmental Health Programs

Society for Public Health Education

750 First Street, NE Suite 910

Washington, DC 20002

Ph: 202.408.9804

Fax: 202.408.9815

E-mail: bpomietto@sophe.org

Website: www.sophe.org

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SOPHE 2006 Midyear Scientific Conference


Betting on Health Education: Increasing the Odds for Collaboration


May 4-7, 2006

Flamingo Hilton Hotel

Las Vegas, NV

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SOPHE 57th Annual Meeting


Health and Human Rights


November 2-4, 2006

Sheraton Boston Hotel

Boston, MA

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SAVE THE DATE!

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9th Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit

March 11-13, 2006
Holiday Inn Capitol Hotel, Washington, DC

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Sponsored by the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations

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Join Advocacy Minded Health Education Colleagues Where You Will:

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* Receive advocacy training from advocacy & legislative experts.
* Discuss priority health issues, such as eliminating health
disparities, No Child Left Behind authorization and appropriation for CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health. =20

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The Health Education Advocacy Summit is three day skill-building experience, where participants get help sharpening their advocacy skills. The Summit features basic, intermediate and advanced-level advocacy training, message crafting of issue-specific legislative priorities by experienced professionals from the government relations staffs of key public health organizations, and congressional visits-either individually or in state delegations-with members of Congress or key congressional staff.

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Lodging - Call now, and before February 24, to make your sleeping room reservation and enjoy the discounted room rate of $169 single/double
plus tax at (202) 479- 4000. Ask for the room block code HEA or state
that you are with the Health Education Advocacy Summit to get the discounted room rate. Reservations made after February 17 may be honored on a space available basis and without the discounted rate.

Summit registration deadline is February 28, 2006!

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Stay tuned to http://www.healtheducationadvocate.org/Summit/ for further details.

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Kindest regards,

Carmen J.=20

Carmen Jewel Head, MPH, CHES

Director, School Health Programs

Society for Public Health Education

750 First St., NE Suite 910

Washington, DC 20002

Phone 202/408.9804

Fax 202/408.9815

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Please visit our website www.sophe.org <http://www.sophe.org/>=20

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Betting on Health Education Increasing the Odds for Collaboration

SOPHE's 2006 Midyear Scientific Conference

May 4-7, 2006

Las Vegas, NV

Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel

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#177

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:19:00 -0500
From: Nancy Eichner <neichner@GWU.EDU>
Subject: News Alert, February 21, 2006 -- Supreme Court to Rule on Partial-Birth Law

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The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) News Alert -- February 21, 2006

Supreme Court to Rule on Partial-Birth Law:
The United States Supreme Court said today that the justices will hear arguments in a case to decide whether the federal government can constitutionally ban second- or third-trimester abortions in which a fetus is partially removed from the womb and the skull is punctured or crushed.
http://www.healthinschools.org

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools http://www.healthinschools.org


Nancy Eichner
Senior Program Manager
202-466-3396 fax: 202-466-3467

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