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2007 Conference - Chicago - August 1st thru 3rd
2007 NAVP Conference Chicago in August!
Dear NAVP member:
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It is getting warmer...which brings thoughts of summer and our NAVP
conference! Attached, please find forms to register for the conference and
for membership. Please feel free to share this information with your
colleagues! Hope to see you in Chicago in August!
CONFERENCE INFORMATION!!!!!! Please mark your calendars for the 2007
Conference to be held August 1st thru 3rd, 2007 at:
Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza
350 N. Orleans Street
Chicago, IL
www.martplaza.com
The rooms will be $169 single/double. You can reserve your room by calling the Hotel Reservation Line (312)836-5000 between 7:00 a.m and 5:00 p.m. For the special rate, please mention NAVP or Prevent Blindness.
The agenda is shaping up to be terrific with possible highlights being Illinois' First Lady Blagojevich as a Keynote Speaker to talk about her "Eyes Right! Find Amblyopia Early" project.
Other presentations may include
- Building Synergy within Your Public Health Community
- Breaking Down Barriers to Health Care
- Public Health and You - Working Together Toward a Common Vision
Advocacy Workshop
Working with Leaders in Your State Capitol to Make A Difference
Networking and Collaboration
- National Institute of Health/CDC - National Vision Plan
- Using Technology to Enhance Children's Vision Screening\ Milwaukee Public Schools Project 20/20
- Low Vision Presentation - Kara Hagerman, OD
- Lions International
- Coalition to Prevent Sports Injuries
Program Sharing/Best Practices Session--Please start
preparing ideas that you can share with other NAVP attendees on your
organization's best practices and program successes.
The conference will also offer non-profit members small display
areas where you may set information on your organization, posters,
etc... As usual, we will have vendors available for you to check out
their latest wares.
NAVP's secretary, Jeff Robinson, is working on the newsletter, so
please send any article ideas to Jeff at
jmrob53@hotmail.com
I would like to thank
- Mary Kijewski, mkijewski@preventblindness.org Prevent Blindness America;
- Jim McKechnie, BigJim1010@aol.com, Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness; and
- Gina Streepy (ginastreepy@hotmail.com) School Health
for making the 2007 NAVP Conference happen. Please email them
directly, if they can answer any questions for you.
I look forward to seeing MANY of you in Chicago in August! Keep
thinking of summer, and it will come!
WARM regards,
Michele
Michele D. Hartlove
President
National Association of Vision Professionals
202.234.1010
National Association
of Vision Professionals
1775 Church Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
Tel:
202-234-1010 Fax: 202-234-1020
contact@visionpros.org