Community U.C.C. - Champaign, Illinois

Health Care Seminar

"Universal Health Care: Faith, Justice, and Advocacy"

Friday night April 30 and Saturday May 1, 2004
Community United Church of Christ

Please fill in the Seminar Registration form and send with check to Community UCC.
NOTE: Advance registration deadline has been extended to Wednesday, April 28, 2004. On-site registration will be available for $25.

Seminar speakers

Come learn, explore and discuss with our five informative speakers:

Barbara Baylor, MPH, CHES, Program Minister for Health and Wellness, Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ

Linda Farrand, Ph.D., Nursing Science, Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois

Claudia Lennhoff, MA, community activist and Executive Director of the Champaign County Health Care Consumers

Rev. Deborah Patterson, Executive Director of Deaconess Parish Nurse Ministries, and the International Parish Nurse Resource Center in St. Louis, MO.

Thomas O'Rourke, Ph.D., Health Education, Professor in Department of Community Health and the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois

Friday, April 30, 2004

6:00 - 6:50 PM Registration / Informational displays
6:50 - 7:00 PM Welcome
7:00 - 7:20 PM Worship service
7:20 - 8:30 PM Rev. Deborah Patterson - "The Church's Call to Healing"
Reception to follow

Saturday, May 1, 2004

8:00 - 9:00 AM Informational Displays - Light Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 AM Dr. Thomas O'Rourke - "Health Care Reform in the U.S.: Lessons from Abroad"
10:15 - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 - 12:00 Discussion groups (simultaneous) led by:
1)Barbara Baylor, MPH,CHES (in sanctuary)
2) Linda Farrand, PhD, APRN, BC (in parlor)
12:00 - 1:15PM Box Lunch - (downstairs Fellowship Hall)
1:15 - 2:15 PM Claudia Lennhoff, MA - "Health Care Issues and Barriers at the Local Level"
2:15 - 3:30 PM Panel discussion with all 5 speakers. Panel moderator: Dr. Ken Gilbert.
3:30 - 4:00 PM closing worship