Chrystal;

Last November I attended/presented at the UBC's conference: 'Where the 
Patients Voice in Health Professional Education ?' which I think would 
be an excellent forum for your group. There were a number of patient 
representatives from underserved areas such as aboriginal, mental 
health. I personally include ovarian cancer women in this group as well, 
something unfortunately which most people outside of our particular 
community fail to appreciate (slight editorial commentary). For some 
reason certain cancer populations are not 'seen' as underserved which I 
find rather odd.
They did have some funding available last year and there was an 
expressed need to increase the funding. This would improve the 
attendance ratio between HCP/Researcher:Patient. Next year's conference 
is in the UK, as I understand it but I don't know that it has been 
widely publicized as yet. The website which you might follow is:

http://www.health-disciplines.ubc.ca/DHCC/conference.htm

Sandi

Chrystal Ocean wrote:

>Since the release of our book, Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health:
>Stories from the Front, WISE has received both heartwarming and
>heartwrenching correspondence.
>
>Unsolicited feedback about the book and WISE's work has been overwhelmingly
>positive. Other emails, particularly from women in poverty, emphasize the
>loneliness and isolation that poverty makes virtually inevitable.
>
>We want to reach out to those cut off from others and incapacitated by
>poverty, and would welcome opportunities to speak at events organized by
>grassroots groups with our message of hope and encouragement. We would also
>welcome doing presentations at universities, colleges, and secondary
>schools, or to other groups working, or learning to work, on poverty – the
>primary social determinant of health.
>
>WISE, an ad hoc group of persons living in poverty, has no private or public
>funding. Therefore, until or unless our recent request for funding from
>Status of Women Canada is successful, our expenses for travel and
>accommodation would need to be fully covered.
>
>Please contact me, Chrystal Ocean, at [log in to unmask] to inquire about a
>WISE presentation.
>
>Bye for now,
>--Ocean
>
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>Wellbeing through Inclusion Socially & Economically
>http://www.wise-bc.org/
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>ORDER - Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health: Stories from the Front
>http://www.wise-bc.org/CVProject/book.html
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