In response to overwhelming success after last year’s 1st conference…plan to attend the Second annual Oregon School Employee Wellness Conference: It Starts with YOU!
• Attend the 2013 Oregon School Employee Wellness Conference and your name will be entered in a drawing for an iPad!
Conference Goal: To engage school employees in creating healthier school environments that supports the physical, social, and emotional health and well-being of staff and students.
Conference Objectives:
- Build the personal awareness and skills to promote overall health.
- Create a culture of wellness at schools to support the health and wellness of school employees.
- Make the case for healthy school employees and the connection to student achievement and success.
- Establish a school team to develop a sustainable plan of action for school employee wellness at their school, district, and community.
- Access and use national, state and local evidence based resources to support school employee wellness.
- Make system and environmental changes to ensure equity and reduce health disparities.
Conference tracks:- Individual: builds personal awareness and skills to improve overall health.
- School: school-wide approach to creating a healthy environment for staff and students to learn, work and play.
- Community: developing community partnerships to leverage resources and achieve shared goals that promote the health and well-being of school employees and students.
Who should attend: school employees, school and district administrators, human resources, community college employees, education service district employees, superintendents, school nurses, wellness coordinators, local public health and health educators, and school board members.
When and Where: March 24-26th in Bend, Oregon at the Riverhouse Hotel and Convention Center
Connect!
- Connect with colleagues from across the state and share your experiences in promoting health and wellness at schools, community colleges and in your communities.
Affordable!
- No conference registration fee.
- Conference scholarships are available for Oregon educators, administrators, and staff to help with travel costs to attend conference.
- Discount room rate at the Riverhouse in Bend. By March 6th, reserve a room at a special discount rate of $89 per night for single and $99 per night/double. Special room rate is available until March 6th.
Continuing Education Credits!
- Earn 1 CPE credit/10 CPDUs!
Featuring local, state and national speakers!- Featuring Dr. Randy Harvey, 2004 recipient of Toastmasters International's prestigious "World Championship of Public Speaking."
- 15 Interactive breakout sessions designed to equip you with the latest evidence-based information, practical strategies and tools to make your school employee wellness programs more effective. Learn from national, state and local experts about how to:
- Build inspired, goal oriented wellness teams
- Launch and sustain school employee wellness programs
- Promote healthy eating with Farm to School and School Garden programs
- Build Stress Resiliency
- Create a Whole Child approach to education and community engagement
- Use a motivation-based approach to promote behavior change
- Create community partnerships, and more
- Wellness activities offered to promote physical activity and stress reduction
Have Fun with Family & Friends!
- Enjoy your Spring Break with your family and friends in beautiful Bend.
For more information go to http://www.oeachoice.com/news-events/
Or contact, Inge Aldersebaes at inge@oeachoice.com or 503-495-6254
Sponsored by ODS, OEA Choice Trust, OEA, Oregon Department of Education, COSA, Oregon Public Health, ASCD, OEBB and Oregon School Boards Association.
