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Friday,
October 10, 2008
– Part I |
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7-
10:00PM |
Practitioners of Excellence Banquet
This Conference component
lifts up, recognizes and honors the outstanding and
exemplary Health & Human Service Practitioners of Excellence
and Al’Ma’un (neighborly assistance)
Community Servants.
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Saturday,
October 11, 2008
– Part II |
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8:00
AM |
Conference
Opens
Continental
breakfast, on-site
registration, health
screenings, vendor
booths open. |
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8: 20
AM |
Conference
Welcome |
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8:30 AM |
Matters
Creating Ill Health and Disease of Mind, Body and Spirit-A
stirring opening media presentation that addresses those
matters that commonly challenge and contend with achieving
optimal health, followed by a panel of experts, to include
Adriana
Flores, Ph.D, Betty Hasan Amin, Educator & Community
Servant, and Salih Faldon, M.D., and
Scott Witaker, N.D.
who will
address ways to better understand and surmount them |
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10:30
AM |
Available
Options for Fostering and Sustaining Our Health and
Wellness.
This session will explore and
share options fully available to us represented by our
participating health vendors and resource persons as we
strive to preserve our optimal health.
Dr.
Deborah Najee-ullah, Facilitator. |
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12
Noon |
Visit Vendors
and Health Screening Venues ~
Lunch Served |
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12:30
PM |
Achieving and
Sustaining Health Naturally
This Workshop will inform us
of some of the ways we can be more discerning and
responsible for our health. You will receive pointers on
practices we should embrace and those we should avoid/reject
as we take more responsibility for preserving our healthy
minds, bodies and spirits.
Dr.
Scott Whitaker, N.D. and Mariam Lawson, MA, Presenters. |
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1:45 PM |
Zuhr
Prayer and Break
Visit Vendors and Health
Screening Booths |
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2:00 PM |
Models for
Supporting our Optimal Health Year Round.
Learn from other faith
communities how they foster health and wellness as an
ongoing focus throughout the year.
Presenters will be
Daa’Iyah
Akbar, Masjid Al Mu’minun and Suisie
Davis, The Atlanta Family Church. |
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3:30 PM |
Models of
Successful Parenting and Village Support for Our Children
and Youth.
This session will challenge
and inspire us to examine the way we parent and mentor our
children and our youth, including ways to engage and affirm
our young boys. Presenters will be:
Attorney
Sheila Arnum and Mikhail Abdulbaaqee. |
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4:45
PM |
Asr Prayer |
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5:30
PM |
Conference
Evaluation & Wrap Up |
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7:00
PM |
Maghrib Prayer |
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Saturday
Evening, October 21, 2008 – Part III |
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7:15 PM |
Family Fun
Night!
Once again this event will be
an evening of fun for the entire family with competitions
and activities supporting physical and mental health and
wellness: challenge games, board games, door prizes and
gifts, entertainment, health screenings and much, much more.This
event is free to participants |
