Dad's Share/ What to Wear/ Health Care Talkabout - 6/17/08

Wed Jun 18 02:37:39 EDT 2008

- WILL DAD EVER DO HIS SHARE?
- WHAT TO WEAR 
- HEALTH CARE TALKABOUT: INVITING ALL CONFERENCE ATTENDEES

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- WILL DAD EVER DO HIS SHARE?
How do you truly split domestic duties? Spouses who are determined to adhere
to ³equally shared parenting² do it minute by minute.
NY Times Sunday Magazine Cover story/Father's Day
June 15, 2008  
Fascinating, must read article to help keep up with today's couples.
http://tinyurl.com/44s3dw

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- WHAT TO WEAR 
> Hey Diane, 
> As newcomers, how do people typically dress for the conference
> and the banquets? Formal? Semi-formal?
> We don¹t want to over or under dress!!
> Janice!

Look at the badge mailing letter at:
http://www.smartmarriages.com/conferencedetails.html

Click on Already Registered? and then on Badge letter

You might also want to read the FAQs page. - diane

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- HEALTH CARE TALKABOUT: INVITING ALL CONFERENCE ATTENDEES

Even if you can't attend our Health Care settings Workshop #517, please join
us for an open forum on Health Care and Marriage & Couples Education on
Friday, July 4 (4:30-6pm) in Yosemite C.

The Health Care Connection Workshop #517 (2:30-4pm - also in Yosemite C)
will focus on local efforts and specific demonstration projects - what
people are actually doing in their areas.

> 517
> Healthcare Connection Strategies
> Jennifer Baker, PsyD, Duane Nelson, MS, Carolyn Curtis, PhD, Don Ferguson,
> PhD, Jana Staton, PhD, Chair
> Learn how to provide marriage & relationship education in health care settings
>  Relationship First Aid Kits, ob-gyn connections, PPT for busy docs, and
> training health care providers for brief interventions.

The Talkabout will look at the bigger picture: * Where is marriage &
relationship education going in the next 10 years?  * What does the future
look like as the current administration departs & funding for CHMIs ends in
2011? * Can public health/health care be a useful umbrella for reaching more
secular, non-captive general populations? * Can CHMI¹s forge substantial
partnerships with the health care systems as a way to expand their work
after Federal funding ends? * What do we need at the NEXT SM Conference to
keep this topic alive? * Who might be key plenary speakers (Diane has tried
for 10 years to get the Surgeon General to be a keynote speaker, with no
success).

I¹ll have hot-off-the-press information about efforts at the
national/Federal level to create new forums for discussing the effects of
marriage and relationship quality on health outcomes and health care for
adults and children.  At least three invitational policy/research
conferences are being planned on this topic in the coming year. Especially
impressive are new research briefs that have just been funded, on the
relationship of African-American marriage & family structure to health
outcomes.

Read the new NHMRC Fact Sheet to get prepare:
<http://www.smartmarriages.com/marriage.reports.html>

Also, check out this workshop
> 417 - Fri, 10am
> In Sickness and In Health
> Lorraine Wright, RN, PhD, Janice Bell, RN, PhD
> Couples often experience emotional suffering when confronted with serious
> illness. Learn 5 healing practices to help couples understand & manage
> constraining beliefs & improve their odds.

Hope to see you there.
If you have questions/suggestions, email me at
Jana Staton <jstaton at montana.com>

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