See You at the
Joint Conference on Health in Yakima
Every year The Office of Health Promotion coordinates a "Health Educators’ roundtable lunch discussion" at the Joint Conference. This year it will be on Tuesday, October 9th, from 12:15-1:15pm. If you do health education as a part of your work, or if you are interested in networking, you are welcome to join us. This is a great opportunity to meet colleagues and hear about what is going on in health education across the state. The conference schedule is planned so that there will be no speakers that will conflict with the lunch meeting. Signs posted at the conference will announce the location. Grab your lunch and join us, we hope to see you there. If you have any questions, or would like to make any suggestions, please email
Jennifer.Livingston@doh.wa.gov or call her at 360-236-3709.
Coming Soon to
H.E.R.E.
Camera Ready Art
Have you ever needed just one copy of a Department of Health (DOH) publication right now, and you don’t have time to wait for an order? The "camera ready art" project is the newest feature of the Health Education Resource Exchange (H.E.R.E.) web site that can help you solve this problem. So what is camera ready art? It is simply material set up for printing.
The H.E.R.E. camera ready art will offer DOH publications in both low and high resolution files. These PDF files will be viewable on your computer, however they will be set up to be printed either on your desktop printer using the low resolution files or by a professional print shop using the high resolution files. The PDF files will contain printing specifications and a letter of agreement.
You probably know that some DOH programs already offer PDFs files of their publications on program web pages. Through H.E.R.E. you will be able to look at educational materials from a variety of DOH programs and divisions without having to go program by program to find them. Our goal is to have all DOH produced materials that are listed in the Health Education Publications Catalog available on the web site in camera ready format.
We will be testing the camera ready art project through the month of September and will be contacting some of you to review the pages and offer feedback. Our official launch will be in mid-October. Our next H.E.R.E. Newsletter will have more details.
Mentor of the Month
Joanne Bonnar Prado
Joanne Bonnar Prado is a Public Health Educator with the Office of Environmental Health Assessment at Department of Health (DOH). She earned a BA in Psychology from California State University Fresno and a MPH in Public Health Education with an environmental focus from the University of California Berkeley.
One of Joanne's highest professional achievements came recently when she was asked to help improve the DOH Pesticide Illness Monitoring System by helping to plan and facilitate a series of focus group discussions with farm workers in the Yakima Valley. The farm workers discussed experiences and beliefs about pesticides in the work place and the reasons why they may or may not seek health care when they feel ill. Many participants stayed after the sessions ended to shake her hand and offer warmest thanks for listening to their views. Joanne is eager to provide concrete services to other public health educators working more directly with communities, in local health districts and departments, clinics, or other community service organizations. She says, "Whether they are asking for data, advice, or help with developing community education interventions, I am passionate about supporting the excellent work of others."
Joanne's advice to up and coming health educators: "A lot of different health professionals feel deeply about public health education, yet might not value the time, training and skill it takes to do it well. It may not help you professionally to be identified as a 'Public Health Educator' so package yourself differently if you need to. But never doubt that the basic core content of this field has profound importance to the lives of people every day, and makes a contribution to public health the world over." Joanne believes that standing up and speaking clearly about the broad public health issues that impact the most vulnerable people is a continuing challenge. She says, "Poor people, immigrants, elders, and the workers who put food on our tables and clothes on our backs need strong public health leaders and institutions. "
Joanne's family is her greatest gift and wonder of her life. She and her husband enjoy all the ups and downs of parenting their three children. With the little time that remains she also enjoys music, hiking, gardening and sports. Her expertise includes environment health, qualitative assessment, community involvement and environmental risk communication. Joanne can be contacted by email joanne.prado@doh.wa.gov or phone 360-236-3172.
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