Come to the Family Support Network Conference
November 16, 2005 12:00-4:30
Federal Building
450 Golden Gate Ave, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA
Lunch will be provided
Key Note Speaker: Gina Solomon, M.D.: "SF Children at Risk: Why You Should Be Concerned" What You Can Do To Make a Difference: WAGES Presentation (Women's Action to Gain Economic Security) How Do We Arrive at Solutions: Policy Discussion & Action Plan
Dr. Gina Solomon is a specialist in adult internal medicine, preventive medicine, and occupational and environmental medicine. She is a Senior Scientist in the Health and Environment Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF. Her work has included research on asthma, diesel exhaust, breast cancer, pesticides, contaminants in breast milk, and threats to reproductive health and child development.
WAGES is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the well-being of low-income Latina immigrants through the development of healthy, dignified jobs in eco-friendly housecleaning cooperatives. More information about WAGES can be viewed at http://www.wagescooperatives.org.
The San Francisco Family Support Network aims to support and enhance the Family Support system of care throughout San Francisco by: Providing a collective voice for Family Support, Promoting the Family Support Principles and educating about best and promising practice, Creating opportunities for enhanced peer support among all Family Support stakeholders, Advocating for policies and programs that will help to meet the health, educational, safety, and environmental needs of all families. The SFFSN is supported by Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund , First 5 San Francisco, The San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Families, San Francisco Human Services Ad-ministration, and the S.H. Cowell Foundation.
The Healthy Children's Organizing Project promotes young children's health and well-being by preventing young and unborn children's exposures to toxic chemicals in their environment—exposures causing a wide variety of diseases and disabilities [learning, behavioral and developmental]. HCOP supports San Francisco's families by advocating to make homes and public facilities environmentally-safe and promoting "community education by the community" to help caregivers learn how to protect children's environmental health in low-income, ethnically diverse neighborhoods. Register with Kim Vo at 437-8429, KVo@dcyf.org
