Schedule
All sessions will take place in the Auditorium.
8:30-9:30 Networking with resource tables, and continental breakfast in Solarium
9:30-9:45 Welcome, The HAP Foundation Community Health Worker Team
9:45-10:45 Opening Keynote: Social Justice and Health Disparities, Reverend Doctor Otis Moss, III, Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago,
10:45-11:00 Stretch Break
11:00-11:45 CHWs: Voices from Around the City, Community Health Worker Panel moderated by Kandis Draw, CHW, The HAP Foundation
- Sahida Martinez, CHW, Community Health Worker Supervisor, Enlace Chicago
- Neda Ahmad, CHW, SDOH Care Manager, Swedish Hospital, Part of Northshore
- Dameka Edwards-Hart, CHW, Supervisor, Community Health Workers and Special Programs, UChicago Medicine
11:45-12:30 Unveiling the Genesis: The Cancer Commission's Inception and Nurturing Care - Exploring the Vital Role of CHWs in Cancer Support, Kimberly Richardson, MA, Founder, Black Cancer Collaborative and Kim Jay, BA, Training Manager, Consultant and Senior Community Health Worker, Sinai Chicago: Sinai Urban Health Institute
12:30-1:30 Lunch in Dining Hall
1:30-3:00 Grief in the Community, an Interfaith Conversation, Moderated by Reverend Morgan Dixon, Managing Partner, Death Light Doula
- Reverend Mishca R. Russell, Regional Manager of Spiritual Care for Trinity-Health Loyola Medicine at MacNeal Hospital and Gottlieb Memorial Hospital locations, Chicagoland
- Rabbi Joseph S. Ozarowski, D. Min., BCC, Rabbinic Counselor Chaplain, JCFS Chicago
- Reverend Allen Harden, Minister, Beverly Unitarian Church
- Imam Tariq El-Amin, Masjid Al-Taqwa Chicago
3:00-3:15 Stretch Break
3:15-3:45 Project REACH (Raising Education for Aging and Community Health): Results of a Community Health Worker Needs Assessment, Stacie Levine MD, CMD, FAAHPM, Professor and Chief, Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine; Lauren J. Gleason, MD, MPH, CMD, AGSF, Assistant Professor of Medicine, The University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences, Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and Nora Spadoni, BA, Second Year Medical Student, University of Chicago
3:45:-4:00 The HAP Foundation's Community Health Worker Program, presented by members of Foundation’s Community Health Worker Team, including Kandis Draw, CHW; Maureen Burns, BA, CHW; and Kimberly Downing RN, JD
4:00-4:30 Networking with resource tables in Solarium