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Clock is Ticking for Rural America:A Behavioral Health & Safety Conference |
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Click here to view or print a full conference schedule, workshop descriptions and registration form. The South Dakota Board of Examiners has approved this conference for 13.25 clock hours of continuing education for South Dakota Marriage & Family Therapists. Program number: BCE1061. Click here to register online and make payment via PayPal. Please allow a few seconds for the page to load. (Please note: this online form does not include full workshop descriptions. To view full descriptions, please click on the full conference schedule link.) Click here to make hotel reservations for the conference *Hotel reservations must be made by July 14, 2009 in order to receive the group discounted rate.
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Conference Exhibitor Information
Thank you to our conference sponsors:
Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health
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August 3-5, 2009
Sioux Falls Convention Center & Sheraton Hotel Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Featured Presenters: Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola
Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities Professor of Internal Medicine University of California - Davis
"Farm Chemicals, Food Production, Environmental Sustainability and Human Health" Dr. Lorann Stallones
Director, Institute of Applied Prevention Research Professor of Epidemiology, Colorado State University
“Preparing for a Post-Industrial Food System:
Challenges and Opportunities.” Dr. Fred Kirschenmann
Distinguished Fellow and former director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Professor of Religion & Philosophy Iowa State University
Workshop and Paper Presentations Include:
"Depression & Rural Dwellers: Two Episodes"
"Mental Health & Disability in the Ag Population"
"Suicide Prevention Collaboration with the Red Lake Band of Chippewa"
"Sleepless in Saskatchewan: Addressing Stress and Safety"
"Empowering Farm/Rural Women Through Gathering Circles"
"Training and Preparing Psychologists for Service to Rural America"
"Suicide Identification and Intervention in the VA"
"Why Health Care is Important to Economic Development"
And featuring: "Tailoring Behavioral Health Services to Agricultural People" A unique training offered to primary care providers, behavioral health care providers and allied caregivers for the agricultural population. Participants will learn how to work with farm and ranch people in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders. See the full conference schedule for a complete description. Iowa-based mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists will receive six CEU credit hours upon completion of the course, through AgriWellness, Inc. Other attendees will receive all training materials and a certificate of course completion.
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