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Follow-Up:

Updates and Follow-up

Photos from the Conference

Your Thoughts (coming soon)

General:

General Information

Agenda

Program (PDF)

Objectives

Conference Resource 2007

Goods Movement 101

Conference Sponsors, Co-Sponsors and Community Partners

Venue:

Directions, Travel, Hotel Information

Flyers:

Conference Flyer (PDF)

Marque su calendario (PDF)

Flyer with Sponsors and Community Partners Listed (PDF)

Background:

History of Past Town Hall Meetings

 

 

Photos taken by Allison Cook

 

Photos from "Moving Forward" Conference

 

More than 550 attendees each day, Community Hall, Casrson Community Center

Registration, Atrium, Carson Community Center

Welcome to the Moving Forward Conference, Carson Community Center

Professor Ed Avol, Following the Goods Movement, Community Hall, Carson Community Center

Dr. John Peters describes the latest research results, Community Hall, Carson Community Center

International Speakers, Community Hall, Carson Community Center

Port truck driverEdgar Sanchez describes his work, Community Hall, Carson Community Center

Small Group Discussions, West Wing Room 111, Carson Community Center

Community Partner Booth, West Wing Lounge, Carson Community Center

Bilingual interpretation, Community Hall, Carson Community Center

Photos taken by Allison Cook

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Conference Updates and Follow-up

Thank you to all of our participants who attended the “Moving Forward” Conference and contributed to its great success!  The conference was enriched by your stories, knowledge, and energy for change.

More than 550 participants attended each day from 16 states and 4 countries, and with many backgrounds: community and environmental organizations, academic institutions, labor unions, policy groups, nursing, teaching, and government. States represented: Maine, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Michigan, Kansas, Indiana, and Iowa. Countries represented: United States, Canada, Mexico and Spain.

Your collaboration and input were fundamental to making this conference a successful achievement. 

Conference materials and follow-up:

The Conference Program and Resource Materials are posted on the website, www.TheImpactProject.org, in the “Conference 2007” section.  The Goods Movement 101 Trainings are available as PDFs in the “Resources” section under “What is Goods Movement?”  We will be working diligently during the next few months to create follow-up actions, networking and communication opportunities, and information-sharing.  We will also be working to share the Presentations made by our speakers, panelists and resource persons.  Please continue to check the website for updates.

Let us know what you think!

If you did not fill out and turn in an anonymous evaluation at the conference, please take a minute to fill out an Evaluation.English (PDF), Evaluation.Spanish (PDF) of the conference.  Fax to 323-442-3272 or e-mail to Info@TheImpactProject.org

We also welcome additional comments and suggestions for creating a network on goods movement and health, please send ideas toInfo@TheImpactProject.org.  Ideas suggested at the conference included creating a listserv and maintaining the website, establishing a national communications network, providing technical assistance, generating a research and education clearinghouse, generating regional workshops, and forming a “drafting committee” to further refine the Statement of Problems and Principles and develop a Vision Statement.

We will be staying in touch with you.  We continue to post current news stories about ports and goods movement issues on our website, www.TheImpactProject.org, on an ongoing basis.  Archived news links can also be found.  Please send links to any local stories you would like posted to Info@TheImpactProject.org.

From all of THE Impact Project partners, thank you! 

 

 

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