SOPHE Call for Abstracts
The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) 2001 Midyear Scientific Conference will be held in Seattle May 3-5 2001. The theme for this year's meeting is Celebrating Diversity in a Climate for Wellness. The planning committee extends a special invitation to Washington State to contribute presentations, workshops or posters. The deadline to submit your abstract is October 15, 2000.
Teach a Feature
Using the H.E.R.E.
Rolodex
The H.E.R.E. Rolodex is a searchable database of about 200 community health professionals in Washington who have an interest in health education and health promotion. People voluntarily add their names to the rolodex and self-select items from a list of interests (topics) and a list of skills. You can search the database of names using any single field or any combination of fields.
To get the most useful results, it is often best to select only one field at a time. People often try to fill in every field when doing a search and are frustrated when they get no results. This is because each field you add is an "and statement," not an "or statement." So the more fields you fill in, the more narrow your search. Some smaller counties have very few people in the database (even though we are adding more names each week). If you are looking for names of people in a smaller county, first start with the county name. You can always add another field if the list is too long.
Then there is the opposite problem: If you search by only one interest or skill, you may get so many names that there will be several pages of results. Be sure to look at the bottom of the "results page" to see if there are additional pages of names.
Adding your name to the H.E.R.E. Rolodex: Click on "Making Connections" on the H.E.R.E. home page. You will see a link for a form to "add your name." Fill in the online form and click the "Add Yourself" button. Remember, however, that this information does not go directly to the database. It comes to the H.E.R.E. team and we add you to the rolodex after we have verified the information. If you need to update any information, just submit a new form. We will make sure the changes are made. If you want to add your name right now, click http://www3.doh.wa.gov/here/rolodex/RolodexForm.aspx.
Mentor of the Month
Starting this month we are adding a new item to this e-newsletter, Mentor of the Month. We hope to feature an outstanding person each month who contributes to the practice of health education and health promotion and who can offer sage advice to others in the field. This month's mentor is Lyndia Vold . . .
Lyndia Vold is a supervisor in the Health Education and Promotion Division of the Spokane Regional Health District. Lyndia has been a Health Program Specialist for over nine years. Her current projects and interests are asthma, head lice, adolescent health, teen pregnancy prevention, and early childhood education. Lyndia started her career with the Nevada State Health Department as a health educator for Maternal and Child Health. She did her graduate studies in Education at Montana State University and earned her Master's degree from Nova University in Las Vegas. Lyndia is a strong advocate for comprehensive school health education. She was also a valuable advisory board member for development of the H.E.R.E.inWA Web site. If you'd like to contact Lyndia her email address is lvold@spokanecounty.org.
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