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Prachi Murarka

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Apr 26, 2012, 9:12:56 PM4/26/12
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Would love to have some of you visit out here! :D

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From: Sage Community Health <sagecommu...@gmail.com>
Subject: Save The Date: Spreading the Health Conference May 4th- 13th, 2012
Date: April 19, 2012 9:59:33 AM CDT
To: Sage Community Health <sagecommu...@gmail.com>


    *Spreading the Health Conference*
    Street medics and wellness workers from Chicago and across the U.S. invite you to attend a conference -- *Spreading the Health* – to help build a grassroots health and wellness movement for social changes! 
    Healthcare workers and wellness workers provide critical support to direct action and social change movements – keeping people well so they can stay involved. From acting as street medics in large mobilizations to providing more continuous care at long-term encampments, such as Occupy, there is a growing movement of wellness work with a healing justice lens, a movement that includes healthcare professionals, community activists, alternative practitioners and others. 

    *Workshops and events from May 4th to May 13th*
     
    *Location: **First Lutheran Church of the Trinity in Bridgeport and other
    Chicago venues*
     
    Workshops Include: 
      -  advanced first aid skills
      -  setting up
      - running improvised clinics
      - crisis management
      -  public health at long-term actions
      -  herbal medicine and acupressure
      - radical mental health perspectives
      - preventing and responding to mental health crisis, sexual assault and substance abuse
      - healing burnout and managing stress and trauma.

    This is conference is for:
    - new and experienced street medics
    - Community Based Organizations, Activists, organizers and healers of all modalities and all walks of life who wish to build skills and community around health and healing justice
    - people with or without healthcare backgrounds interested in developing
      skills related to medical support, health and wellness care in social
      change work
     
    - people who have stepped up to run medical support at Occupy actions
    across the country
     
    - people who want to support the Chicago Spring / NATO protests actions
     
    Come to the whole conference or select the workshops and events that
    interest you.
     
     
    Trainings offered will include:
     
    - a complete 20-hour street medic training
     
    - an 8-hour bridge training for healthcare professionals
     
    - a first aid training for affinity groups
     
    Check out *spreadingthehealth.org* for registration and updated information
    on workshop schedules, or to get involved.
     
     
    This conference is being organized by health activists from Chicago Action
    Medical (Chicago’s collective of street medics), the Chicago Healing
    Justice Network and street medic collectives throughout the country.
     


--
Sage Community Health Collective
2514 W. Armitage #205
Chicago, IL 60647


Linda Leu

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Apr 26, 2012, 9:55:43 PM4/26/12
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Have you moved to Chicago?

Prachi Murarka

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Apr 27, 2012, 6:58:17 PM4/27/12
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Hey all,

I'm temporarily living in Michigan City, Indiana (close close to Chicago) to heal family dynamics and follow intuitive guidance before coming to California for a bit.  I might be moving to India, so it seemed like what I needed to do right now.

With love,
Prachi
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