I thought this may be of interest to some of you.
Rachel

Subject:        	International Conference on Adolescent Health
Date sent:      	Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:51:20 +0100


Third International Conference on Adolescent Health  
Youth  & The Promise of a New Millennium?

19 & 20 October 2000
The Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park, London

Featuring leading International Experts on Adolescent Health from
around the world. Keynote addresses, dual lecture halls with 
parallel
plenary sessions, workshops, discussion groups, meet the 
professors,
youth participation, free papers and poster presentations.

Topics including: Sexuality, Schools Based Sex Education, 
Government
Strategy, Health & Physical Challenge, Youth Violence & the Law, 
Youth
& Family, Drop Outs & Street Kids, Teenage Pregnancy & Parenthood,
Rave & Party Drugs, Therapy, Kids in Care, Eating Disorders, Risk
Taking Behaviours, Mental Health, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Orientation,
Disability, Bereavements, Sexual Health for Boys, Contraception &
Abortion, Youth on the Edge, The Media, Education & Employment, Abuse
& Self Harm Social & Behavioural issues, Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders, Confidentiality & changes in the law
etc.

Speakers include:

Diana Birch - Youth Support, UK
Karen Hein - William T Grant Foundation, USA
Richard Brown -San Fransisco General Hospital, USA
Alison Hadley - Department of Health, UK
Barbara Huberman - Advocates for Youth, Washington D.C, USA
Fay Hutchinson - previously Brook Advisory
Shannon Whalen - Adelphi University, New York, USA
John Rees - University of Exeter, UK
Peer Educators - A PAUSE, University of Exeter, UK
Ellen Rome - University Hospitals Cleveland, USA
Herbert Friedman - previously, World Health Organisation
Gilian VanHegan - Brook Advisory, London
Muriel O'Driscoll - Brook Advisory, Wirral
Gustavo Girard -Latin American Association for Paediatrics, Argentina
Wilfred Kamphausen - European Commission, Luxemburg Russell Viner -
Great Ormond Street & Middlesex Hospitals, UK Gail Slap -Children's
Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, USA Ann Sutton - Yorkhill NHS
Trust, Glasgow Renee Jenkins -Washington, USA Veronica Coates -
Brazilian Association of Adolescent Health, San Paulo, Brazil Nona
Dawson - University of Bristol, UK Roger Tonkin - International
Association for Adolescent Health, Canada Emmanuel Chigier - Health
Education Project for Adolescents in Residential Education, Tel Aviv, 
Israel Abigail English - National Centre for Youth Law, North
Columbia, USA Irene Adams - Belo Horizonte, Brazil Pierre Paul Tellier
- McGill University, Montreal, Canada Simon Clarke - Westmead
Hospital, Australia Aric Schichor - University of Connecticut, USA
Richard MacKenzie -Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, USA Victor
Strasburger - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA Iris Litt -
USA Yuko Matsuhashi - Hiroshima University, Japan Daniel Hardoff -
Bnai Zion Medical Centres, Israel Alix Brown - Lucy Faithful
Foundation, UK Macarena Valdez - University of Chile Musonda Chikwanda
 - University of Zambia Susan Terblanche - University of Port
Elizabeth, South Africa Salihs al Ansari - Ministry of Education,
Saudi Arabia Ann Woodward - Westmead Hospital, Australia Catrina
Crocker - Department of Health, Tasmania Swati Bhave - Indian Accademy
of Paediatrics, Mumbai, India University of Hertfordshire, UK Monica
Becker - Casa do Adolescente do Brazil, San Paulo, Brazil Didcot
Health Centre, Oxfordshire, Uk Julia Waldman - University of
Southampton, UK James Feldman - KidsPeace, Philadelphia, USA Paula
Worthington - NSPCC, Cheshire, UK Susan Ritchie - Auckland University
of Technology, New Zealand Carol Bowen - Carter Bequest Hospital,
Cleveland, UK Ann O'Sullivan - University of Pensylvania, USA Donald
Schwartz - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA Craig Hodges -
Mental Health  Service for Kids & Youth, Melbourne, Australia Louise
Osborn - Rhayader, Wales, UK Steven Walker - Anglia Polytechnic
University, UK Paul Griffiths - The Children's Society, UK Neville
Butler - International Centre for Child Studies, UK Ueli Buhlmann
-Triemli Medical Centre, Switzerland Aggrey Burke - St George's
Hospital, Uk Pamela McNeil - Women's Centres of Jamaica


For further details view the Youth Support Websites:

www.youthsupport.com <http://www.youthsupport.com> - conferences
www.youthsupport.org <http://www.youthsupport.org> - Treatment Unit
www.youthsupport.co.uk <http://www.youthsupport.co.uk> - General
Information www.booksbooksbooks.org <http://www.booksbooksbooks.org> -
publications

or contact:

Lisa Bioletti
Conference & Publications Department
Youth Support
13 High Street
Penge
London SE20 7HJ
Tel. 0208 325 8162
Fax. 0208 325 8647
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