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You Are Invited! From Marginalized to Community Assets Optimizing Our Service Delivery through Asset-Based Community Assessments Across the Perinatal Networks Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Marist College Lowell Communication Center Room 125. Seats are Still Available.

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  1. You Are Invited! From Marginalized to Community Assets Optimizing Our Service Delivery through Asset-Based Community Assessments Across the Perinatal Networks Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.Marist CollegeLowell Communication CenterRoom 125 Seats are Still Available

  2. Across the Hudson Valley region and amid 2.4 million people that reside in its seven counties,

  3. Perinatal Service Providers address, protect and strengthen maternal, paternal and infant/child health in the region.

  4. But… for marginalized families in at-risk communities,

  5. it is challenging for Perinatal Service Providers to • Improve birth outcomes • Increase use of breastfeeding • Or decrease elective use of C-sections before week 39

  6. This is especially true when challenged by the ever-present factors of

  7. Poverty • Pervasive community crime • Domestic Violence • Child abuse and neglect • Minimal availability of licensed child care • Limited transportation to access care Marginalization suffocates the work of Perinatal Service Providers. But do not despair…..

  8. Seats are still available for this one-time only event. Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.Marist CollegeLowell Communication CenterRoom 125 • Strengthen Tool Box with Asset-Based Community Assessments & Development • Capture Priority Areas through small facilitated Work Groups • Apply Asset-Based Perspectives to Work Group outcomes • To categorize innovative tools, programs and relationships that build upon, if not promote, community assets to transform at-risk communities and marginalized families.

  9. With the Combined Efforts of Adelphi University School of Social Work Lower Hudson Valley Perinatal Network Vassar Brothers Medical Center Maternal Infant Services Network Marist College Providers across the Hudson Valley region will walk away grounded on ways to optimize Perinatal Service Delivery through Asset-Based Community Assessments.

  10. See You Then…. When: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Where: Marist College Lowell Thomas Communication Center Room 125 Poughkeepsie, New York Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Full Lunch Provided by Sponsors) RSVP: Deadline is January 15, 2011 via online registration -- http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XRLQ2B3 For further information or questions: Diann Cameron Kelly, PhD, Associate Professor (Kelly5@adelphi.edu) or Lyn Paul, PhD, LCSW, Clinical Assistant Professor (MPaul@adelphi.edu) Adelphi University School of Social Work Garden City, New York 11530 (Hudson Valley Center, 457 Maple St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601) 845.471.3348/845.452.0967 (Fax)

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