Monday, July 11, 2005

Track 1: Solutions to Rural Behavioral Health Barriers · McIntosh

• Addressing Rural Adolescent Substance Use through Increased Youth Involvement in School-University-Community Prevention Partnerships by Tony Jung and Richard Spoth

• Implementing Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Programs in Agricultural Communities by Marilyn Bode and Janet Brown

• Community Input Based Program Development: The SPOT (Strengthening Pride, Optimism and Trust) for Community Wellness by Katy Cummins-Bakko

• Sowing the Seeds of Hope: Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Farm Families by Kathy Schmitt

• Iowa Recovers: An Evidence-Based Practice for Rural Disaster Survivors by James Addy

Track 2: Improving Human Risk Management in Rural Communities

· Melrose

• Traffic Crashes are No Accident: Rural Roads and Traffic Safety by Nancy Franke Wilson

• Public Health: Alcohol and the Rural Courts by Linda Chezem

• Using the Community Capitals Framework to build Community Capacity to Improve the Health and Wellness of Agricultural Workers by Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Cornelia Flora

• Older Rural Women’s Health Care Decision Making by Sara Lassig and Jan McCulloch

Track 3: Solutions to Health Care and its Coverage for the Rural/Agricultural Population · Braeburn

• Underinsurance Among Farm Families by Kristi Fisher

• Rural Mental Health and Primary Care: Lessons Learned from a Statewide Workgroup by Linda Norlander and Rhonda Wiering

• The Integration of Telemental Health in Rural Primary Medical Care by Gary Davis, Jane Hovland and Nadine Hoven

• Rural Mental Health: Issues Across the Lifespan by B. Jan McCulloch, Mary Kay Rayens, and Ann Peden

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Track 2: The Evolution of Rural America · Melrose

                        Section 1: Behavioral Health Challenges

                        Section 2: The Church and its Role in Rural America

• The Role of Rural Culture in Effective Mental Health Care by Maureen Lutterman

• Depression and Help-Seeking Behavior of North Dakota Farmers: The Impact of the Farm Crisis by Wanda McSparron

• Toward Rural Cultural Competence in Providing Mental Health Services by Katherine M. Slama

• The Church, its People and its Mental Health Responsibility by Cherryl Garner

• Parish Nursing: An Expanding Professional Role that Promotes Healthy Communities by Helene Vander Werff and Carol DeSchepper

• Resilience and Change in Rural Churches and their Impact on the Health of Young Rural Women by Anita Unruh

• The Churches’ Response to Disaster by Karl Goodfellow

Track 3: Behavioral Health Delivery in Rural America · Braeburn

• MOM: Managing Our Mood, Distance Treatment for Postpartum Depression by Patrick McGrath

• Qualitative Analysis of Burnout and Job Satisfaction between Rural and Urban Social Workers by Paul F.E. Mackie

• Providing Mental Health Services in the American Frontier: Opportunities and Challenges by James P. Link

• Using Health Fairs in Rural Kentucky Counties to Reach Diverse Audiences by Martha Perkins, Peggy Powell, Carole Rison and Kimberly Cox

• Communicating the Needs of Culturally Diverse Populations Experiencing End of Life Conditions and Requiring Palliative Care by Diane Blanchard

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

• The Future of Rural Communities by Michael Duffy, Ph.D., and Paul Lasley, Ph.D., Iowa State University, Ames, IA