On June 6th, the Georgia Asian Pacific Islander Community Coalition will be hosting the 2nd annual Asian American Cancer Awareness Summit to recognize Asian American Cancer Awareness Day. This year's theme is, "Health Equity and Justice Now."

The half day summit will feature an opening plenary from the Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum's Policy Director, Deanna Jang. Ms. Jang will begin the day with a look at the The Blueprint for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Health and Health Care Reform. For a copy of the blueprint: www.apiahf.org/downloads/APIAHF_Blueprint.pdf  

There will also be three out of four tracks for summit participants to choose from, which include:

Track 1: Having Cancer is Hard, Finding Help Shouldn't Be
This track will feature an overview of the Cancer Resource Network by the American Cancer Society. Ideal for all people, providers, survivors, caregivers and healthcare professionals.

Track 2: How to Better Serve the Asian American Population (ideal for service providers)

This track will feature information on Asian Americans in Georgia, their community needs and the health disparities that they face. 

Track 3: Can you Hear us? Advocacy for Health Equity

Strategies on how to frame cancer and health into an issue that resonates enough for systems change. Skills such as how to frame your issue, elevator speech, building allies, etc.

Track 4: Innovative Strategies in the Fight Against Cancer

 A panel of public health experts sharing innovative strategies to help remove the burden of cancer from the Asian American community.

The summit is free of charge, breakfast and lunch will be provided. Lunch will be sponsored by the American Cancer Society.

The 2nd Annual Asian American Cancer Summit is hosted by the Georgia Asian Pacific Islander Community Coalition. To learn more about the coalition, please visit www.gaapicc.org

Questions? Contact Lindsay.Romasanta@cpacs.org, 770.936.0969 x. 37

Starting
Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 8:30 AM EST
Ending
Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 2:30 PM EST
Location & Address
UPS Headquarters
55 Glenlake Parkway
Atlanta, GA
United States-30328